Performance of Children in Phonemic and Semantic Verbal Fluency Tasks

Abstract This study investigated the performance of children from the Brazilian Northeast region, from 7 to 10 years in phonemic and semantic verbal fluency tasks. The participants were 102 subjects (62 girls and 40 boys) who performed three phonemic and three semantic fluency tasks. The results were submitted to correlational and variance analysis to investigate the influence of the variables age and gender on the subjects performance. There was no effect of gender on the results. Significant contrasts between age groups were found, and better performance was observed on phonemic tasks. Also, the performance in this task changed along development, in contrast to what happened with the semantic fluency. The findings seem to be in accordance to neurodevelopmental aspects, taken into account that explicit memory systems show more precocious maturational course, with earlier consolidation, in comparison to the executive functions and frontal lobes, which go on developing until adult ages.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Leite,Gilmara de Lucena, Pires,Izabel Augusta Hazin, Aragão,Laura Carolina Lemos, Paula,Artemis Paiva de, Gomes,Ediana Rossely de Oliveira, Garcia,Danielle, Barros,Priscila Magalhães, Alencar,João Carlos Nascimento de, Fichman,Helenice Charchat, Oliveira,Rosinda Martins
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Universidade de São Francisco, Programa de Pós-Graduação Stricto Sensu em Psicologia 2016
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-82712016000200293
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