Phonological and semantic verbal fluency: a comparative study in hearing-impaired and normal-hearing people

Santos, Isadora Machado Monteiro dos; Chiossi, Julia Santos Costa; Soares, Alexandra Dezani; Oliveira, Larissa Costa; Chiari, Brasília Maria

doi:10.1590/2317-1782/20142014050

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“…A study compared the performance of hearing-impaired and normal-hearing adults (18 to 60 years) on phonemic and semantic VF tests and found that both groups had a better performance in the semantic VF ("animals") in comparison with phonemic task ("F"). Moreover, the hearing-impaired group had a worse performance compared to the normal-hearing group (Santos et al 2014), which is in agreement with our findings. A possible explanation for these results is related to hierarchical memory organization of semantic VF category, which has subcategories ("pets", "zoo animals", "jungle animals", among others) allowing more words to be evoked (Azuma 2004;Santos et al 2014).…”

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Hearing Loss and Cognitive Function: Baseline Findings From the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health: ELSA-Brasil

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Objective: Hearing loss (HL) has been associated with cognitive impairment in high-income countries. However, no study has investigated this association in low-and middle-income countries. Therefore, our aim was to investigate the association between cognitive function and HL in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health.Design: Cross-sectional analysis of Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) with 802 individuals (35-74 years old). Hearing was measured using pure-tone audiometry. A pure-tone average (s) of thresholds at 500, 1000, 2000, and 4000 Hz was calculated. HL was defined as a PTA above 25 dB in the better ear or either ear, as a categorical variable. Cognitive performance was measured using the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease word list memory test, the semantic and phonemic verbal fluency (VF) tests, and the Trail Making test version B. To investigate the association between cognitive performance and HL, we used linear regression models adjusted for sociodemographic and clinical variables.Results: Of the total of participants, 7.6% had HL. After adjustment for sociodemographic and health confounding variables, only VF was associated with HL; a 10 dB increase in the PTA in the better ear was associated with worse performance in the phonemic VF test (β = −0.115 [95% CI, −0.203 to −0.027], p = 0.01). We found a significant interaction between HL and age in the VF domain (p = 0.01). HL was related to poor VF performance among older adults only. Conclusion:In a community-dwelling sample of most middle-aged adults, objectively measured HL was associated with lower VF. These results should be evaluated with caution, given the likelihood of residual confounding and the fact that only VF showed an association with HL.

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“…The subgroup of children with HL DLD retrieved a statistically significantly smaller number of animals compared with TD children. This is in line with Wechsler-Kashi et al (2014) and Santos et al (2014), who report children with HL to have difficulties with lexical access. This may indicate, as reported by Andersson (2002), that word retrieval difficulties are influenced by the combination of multiple factors.…”

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“…Furthermore, a degraded auditory input is not necessarily enough for the children to exhibit word retrieval difficulties. As Santos et al (2014) and Coppens et al (2012) report, can degree of HL alone not explain the number of words retrieved by children with HL? It is often claimed that cognitive processing difficulties in children with HL are caused by an auditory perceptual deficit (Sahlén & Hansson, 2006).…”

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Word Retrieval and Lexical Organization in Children With Hearing Loss and Developmental Language Disorder

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Thomsen²

2020

Communication Disorders Quarterly

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Word retrieval and lexical organization were explored in 16 Danish children with slight to severe hearing loss (HL), 11 children with developmental language disorder (DLD), and 25 typically developing (TD) children in the age range of 7 to 12 years. There is a special focus on children with HL with and without language difficulties compared with children with DLD. Word retrieval and lexical organization are assessed with a Semantic Verbal Fluency Task. Background assessment of language comprehension is assessed with Test for Reception of Grammar–Version 2 (TROG-2) and nonverbal IQ is assessed with Block Design from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Fourth Edition (WISC-IV). Main findings show that children with HL without language difficulties did not show any significant word retrieval or lexical organization difficulties compared with TD children. However, there was a resemblance between children with DLD and children with HL with language difficulties in word retrieval and lexical organization.

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“…There is a relationship between learning vocabulary and categorizing it in the lexicon, because categorization requires the existence of a mental representation of meaning, which is mapped to form lexical items. 1 The verbal fluency test can provide information about the storage capacity, the ability to retrieve information and evaluates strategies used to search for words.…”

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Verbal Fluency Test in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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Ekonen

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BackgroundThe verbal fluency task is a widely used psychometric test to account for cognitive functions, particularly, verbal and executive functions. Being an easy and fast test to administer, it is a good neuropsychological tool in low technology environments. Our objective was to analyze the performance in verbal fluency of Spanish-speaking children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Methods We performed a retrospective cross-sectional study to analyze the performance of children who had undergone a verbal fluency test in a neuropsychological assessment.Results We included 115 participants. There were 41 (35.65%) participants with low intellectual performance (LIP), 63 (54.78%) with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD), and 11(9.57%) participants with dyslexia. Participants with LIP showed lower phonological and semantic fluency scores than participants with ADHD, and a lower performance in semantic fluency than the dyslexia group. The probability of having LIP was 6.12 times greater when somebody had a scale score lower than 7 in the phonological task and it was 7.9 times greater when the scale score was lower than 7 in the semantic task. Conclusion There was a direct relationship between Full Scale Intelligence Quotient and verbal fluency test performance, the latter being a brief and effective neuropsychological test that can reveal deficit not only in executive functions and verbal abilities but also detect LIP. AbstractKeywords ► neuropsychological test ► verbal fluency test ► language disorders ► executive function

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Phonological and semantic verbal fluency: a comparative study in hearing-impaired and normal-hearing people

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Cited by 11 publications

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Hearing Loss and Cognitive Function: Baseline Findings From the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health: ELSA-Brasil

Hearing Loss and Cognitive Function: Baseline Findings From the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health: ELSA-Brasil

Word Retrieval and Lexical Organization in Children With Hearing Loss and Developmental Language Disorder

Verbal Fluency Test in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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