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Comparative Study
. 1993 Apr;76(2):465-6.
doi: 10.2466/pms.1993.76.2.465.

Differential effects of aging on two verbal fluency tasks

R Tomer  1 , B E Levin
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Comparative Study

Differential effects of aging on two verbal fluency tasks

R Tomer et al. Percept Mot Skills. 1993 Apr.

Abstract

The effect of age on verbal fluency was studied in 84 healthy volunteers, ages 45 to 91 years, who performed letter-fluency and semantic-fluency tasks. Older subjects (75 to 91 yr.) performed as well as younger (50 to 64 yr.) on letter fluency but did significantly worse on semantic category fluency. This pattern is similar to that observed in Alzheimer-type dementia.

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