Sara Cavaco|Alexandra Gonçalves|Cláudia Pinto|Eduarda Almeida|Filomena Gomes|Inês Moreira|Joana Fernandes|Armando Teixeira?Pinto
Semantic Fluency and Phonemic Fluency: Regression-based Norms for the Portuguese Population
Centro Hospitalar do Porto|Universidade do Porto|University of Iowa|Centro Hospitalar do Porto|Universidade do Porto|Centro Hospitalar do Porto|Universidade do Porto|Centro Hospitalar do Porto|Universidade do Porto|Centro Hospitalar do Porto|Universidade do Porto|Centro Hospitalar do Porto|Universidade do Porto|Centro Hospitalar do Porto|Universidade do Porto|Universidade do Porto|Centre for Health Technology and Services Research|University of Sydney
main goal study produce adjusted normative data portuguese population two verbal fluency measures semantic fluency test animals category phonemic fluency test letters r p study included 950 communitydwelling individuals 624 women 326 men aged 18 98 mean 578 sd 190 educational backgrounds ranging 0 20 years mean 88 sd 52 results showed age education significantly associated semantic fluency phonemic fluency performance demographic characteristics accounted 42 semantic fluency 23 31 phonemic fluency performance variance significant sex effects found normative data presented regressionbased algorithms adjust test scores age education subsequent correspondence adjusted scores percentile distribution