Semantic and Phonemic Verbal Fluency in Blinds |
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Authors: | Vahid Nejati Anoosh Asadi |
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Institution: | 1.Cognitive neuroscience, Psychology Department,Shahid Beheshti University,Tehran,Iran;2.Raftar Cognitive Neuroscience Research Center,Tehran,Iran |
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Abstract: | A person who has suffered the total loss of a sensory system has, indirectly, suffered a brain lesion. Semantic and phonologic
verbal fluency are used for evaluation of executive function and language. The aim of this study is evaluation and comparison
of phonemic and semantic verbal fluency in acquired blinds. We compare 137 blinds and 124 sighted people in verbal fluency
task. The tasks were phonemic and semantic verbal fluency test that subjects should be generate as many word as possible in
a limited amount of time for a given letter (Phonemic fluency) or a given category (Semantic fluency). Independent T Test
was used to comparing blind with sighted. Findings show significant difference between two groups so that that sighted subjects
have higher performance in semantic verbal fluency task (p = 0.000). Comparing sighted and blind subjects in phonemic verbal fluency task shows performance in sighted subjects (p = 0.000). Based on this study blinds have lower performance in semantic and phonemic verbal fluency task as a executive function
of frontal lobe. |
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