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verbal fluency test

verbal fluency test A verbal fluency test is a neuropsychological assessment in which performance is used to evaluate executive control and the ability to retrieve words from the mental lexicon.

A verbal fluency test is a neuropsychological assessment in which performance is used to evaluate executive control and the ability to retrieve words from the mental lexicon. In phonemic verbal fluency, interpretation has traditionally focused on the total number of words produced, although newer work suggests that patterns in responses can also reflect complex cognitive-linguistic processes.