Application
Assesses verbal fluency. This is the ability to find words with particular characteristics in one’s mental lexicon and verbalize them. There are two subdimensions of verbal fluency: semantic and lexical (also called phonemic) word fluency. A certain degree of verbal fluency is essential in order to be able to function in social and work-related situations. Assessment of verbal fluency is particularly important in clinical neuropsychology, because verbal fluency is impaired in many different neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Administration
The respondent has either one or two minutes in which to name as many words as possible that begin with a certain letter (lexical verbal fluency) or belong to a certain category (semantic verbal fluency).
Test forms
S1: Standard form – semantic verbal fluency.
S2: Parallel form – semantic verbal fluency.
S3: Standard form – lexical verbal fluency.
S4: Parallel form – lexical verbal fluency.
Scoring
The following main variables are scored:
- Verbal fluency.
- Total number of errors.
- Rule violations.
- Repetitions.
Scoring elements
Profile
Working time
Confidence interval
Profile analysis
Item analysis protocol
Progress chart
Special diagrammatic representation of results
Personalized Word report
Test type
Test information
modular
language-free item
parallel test form
conforms to the
additional device
high level of test
test form available for online presentation - open
links to CogniPlus
supervisor-supported
Languages
German
Italian
Portuguese
Duration
approx. 4 minutes for each test form.
Age
Norms for ages 18+.
Age-specific norms for ages 50+.
Special features
Important: A supervisor must administer the test!
