Semantic Fluency
Mostrando 13-24 de 33 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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13. Memory performance in Brazilian school-age children
The purpose of the present study was to investigate different memory systems among children of different school ages. Ninety children who attend schools within the Rio de Janeiro municipality school system, ages 6 to 10 years, were studied. The study excluded children with learning disabilities. All children underwent a neuropsychological evaluation. A two-w
Psychol. Neurosci.. Publicado em: 2012-12
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14. Prosa argumentativa em língua inglesa: um estudo contrastivo sobre advérbios em corpora digitais / Argumentative prose in English language: a contrastive study about adverbs in digital corpora
This research investigates how Brazilian learners of English use adverbs ending in-ly in written English and compares their use to that of speakers of English as a mother tongue. To this end, the work resorts to Corpus Linguistics as both theoretical and methodological support. The research is based on the area called Learner Corpora Research, which deals wi
IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia. Publicado em: 30/03/2010
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15. Neuropsychological assessment of executive functions: developmental tends and instruments validity evidences / Avaliação neuropsicológica das funções executivas: tendências desenvolvimentais e evidências de validade de instrumentos
Executive functions (EF) are an abilities set, including selective attention, cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control, planning, monitoring and working memory, among others, whose function is to regulate and control goals oriented behaviors. There are evidences that these abilities follow distinct developmental paths, and some of them still are in full dev
Publicado em: 2009
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16. Perfil de alterações cognitivas em pacientes com fibrose pulmonar idiopática / Cognitive impairment profile of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Background: Lung disease with hypoxaemia as chronic pulmonary obstructive disease may be associated with cognitive impairment caused by continuous fall in oxygen saturation. Objective: 1) to identity if there is cognitive impairment in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; 2) if present, to evaluate the neuropsychological profile of these alterations
Publicado em: 2009
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17. Caracterização do perfil cognitivo e avaliação da memória de trabalho na síndrome de Down
Working memory is assumed to be a limited capacity responsible for maintaining and manipulating information for a short period of time, that are underpins the capacity for complex thought and learning. People with Down Syndrome have a deficit in their working memory and in general, they cant maintain information for a short period of time and this can result
Publicado em: 2009
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18. Experiment and Erlebnis : the dimension of life as pathos / Experimento e vivencia : a dimensão da vida como pathos
The objective of this research is to analyze Nietzsche s formula become who you are . It is an alteration of Pindaro s expression made by Nietzsche, which has worried him since he was a student until being published with the subtitle of Ecce homo. Our hypothesis is that become who you are formula can be understood through the concept of experience (Erlebnis)
Publicado em: 2009
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19. Development and content validity of the Brazilian Brief Neuropsychological Assessment Battery Neupsilin
This paper aims to present the process of construction and content validity of the Brazilian Brief Neuropsychological Assessment Battery Neupsilin, developed to briefly examine the neuropsychological profile of both clinical and healthy populations. It evaluates time and spatial orientation, attention, perception, memory, arithmetic abilities, language, prax
Psychology & Neuroscience. Publicado em: 2008-06
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20. Memoria lexico-semantica no comprometimento cognitivo leve amnestico e doença de Alzheimer leve : aspectos neuropsicologicos, de neuroimagem estrutural e modelo de organização cerebral / Lexical semantic memory in amnestic mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer´s disease : neuropsychological and neuroimaging aspects and model of cerebral organization
Cerebral organization of lexical-semantic memory, as well as its disruption in mild Alzheimer s disease (AD) and in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI) is not fully understood. In this study, we evaluated the performance of mild AD, aMCI and normal aging subjects in lexical-semantic tests: Boston Naming Test (BNT), CAMCOG s Similarities item, Verbal Fl
Publicado em: 2008
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21. Neuropsychological dysfunction related to earlier occupational exposure to mercury vapor
We assessed the neuropsychological test performances of 26 patients (mean age = 41.5 ± 6.1 years; mean years of education = 9.8 ± 1.8; 20 males) diagnosed with chronic occupational mercurialism who were former workers at a fluorescent lamp factory. They had been exposed to elemental mercury for an average of 10.2 ± 3.8 years and had been away from this wo
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research. Publicado em: 2007-03
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22. Fluência verbal semântica em pré-escolares: estratégias de associação
The test of semantic verbal fluency, TSVF, is commonly used in neuropsychology, both in clinic and research fields, where it is considered as a frontal lobe test. A 4-category TSVF was utilized: "toys", "animals", "body parts" and "things to eat", generally aiming to evaluate the development level of pre-school children. Specific objectives have been: to est
Publicado em: 2006
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23. Hesitações na fala semi-espontanea : analise por series temporais / Hesitation phenomena in semi-spontaneous sppech : a time series analysis
The focus of this experimental research is the temporal behavior of hesitation phenomena in semi-spontaneous speech. The possibility that hesitation phenomena occur periodically in spoken texts and their relations with text types, picture support and declarative knowledge were examined. The subjects were five young male adults, university students, native sp
Publicado em: 2006
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24. Category fluency test: effects of age, gender and education on total scores, clustering and switching in Brazilian Portuguese-speaking subjects
Verbal fluency tests are used as a measure of executive functions and language, and can also be used to evaluate semantic memory. We analyzed the influence of education, gender and age on scores in a verbal fluency test using the animal category, and on number of categories, clustering and switching. We examined 257 healthy participants (152 females and 105
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research. Publicado em: 2004-12