title: [Verbal fluency tests--application in neuropsychological assessment].
abstract: Verbal fluency tests (VFT) have established position in methodology of cognitive functions research. They are used in neuropsychological assessment of neurological and psychiatric diseases. This article's aim is to present current knowledge of the VFT both to clinicians and researchers. It describes models of cognitive processes involved in task performance mainly: semantic memory access and executive functions and. It describes studies on verbal fluency both in healthy and impaired subjects involving neuroimaging discussing neuroanatomical structures involved in task performance. Authors are quite unanimous as to connection between frontal and temporal lobes condition and task performance, but also other cortical and subcortical structures seem to be involved. Methods of qualitative performance analysis and studies applying them are further described. This article brings up also important questions of psychometric and demographic characteristics of the task and limitations arising from the lack of Polish norms of the tool.
authors.affiliation: Katedra i Zakład Neuropsychologii Klinicznej Collegium Medicum UMK w Bydgoszczy.
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Piskunowicz
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bieliński
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zgliński
authors.forename: Alina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Borkowska
mesh_terms: D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D060825:Cognitive Dysfunction / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007807:Language Tests; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012016:Reference Values; D012660:Semantics; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014706:Verbal Learning