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SynthesisNeuropsychology review2023

A Systematic Review of Normative Data for Verbal Fluency Test in Different Languages.

Dolores Villalobos, Lucia Torres-Simón, Javier Pacios, Nuria Paúl, David Del Río

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Synthesis in Neuropsychology review, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  16. Exploring Factors Affecting Verbal Fluency in Healthy Aging.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025
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  19. Normative Data for the Famous People Fluency Test in the Adult French-Quebec Population and Validation Study in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Dolores VillalobosDepartment of Experimental Psychology, School of Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-2434-6260
Lucia Torres-SimónDepartment of Experimental Psychology, School of Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-1043-1141
Javier PaciosDepartment of Experimental Psychology, School of Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-0006-6184
Nuria PaúlDepartment of Experimental Psychology, School of Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5462-6138
David Del RíoDepartment of Experimental Psychology, School of Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain. david_delrio@med.ucm.es.ORCID 0000-0002-1534-2607

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Verbal fluency tests are easy and quick to use in neuropsychological assessments, so they have been counted among the most classical tools in this context. To date, several normative data for verbal fluency tests have been provided in different languages and countries. A systematic review was carried out with studies that provide normative data for verbal fluency tests. Studies were collected from Scopus, PubMed and Web of Science. 183 studies were retrieved from the database search, of which 73 finally met the inclusion criteria. An analysis of the risk of bias regarding samples selection/characterization and procedure/results reports is conducted for each article. Finally, a full description of the normative data characteristics, considering country and language, verbal fluency task characteristics (type of task) and sample characteristics (number of subjects, gender, age, education) is included. The current systematic review provides an overview and analysis of internationally published normative data that might help clinicians in their search for valid and useful norms on verbal fluency tasks, as well as updated information about qualitative aspects of the different options currently available.

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LanguageVerbal BehaviorEducational StatusHumansNeuropsychological TestsAssessmentNeuropsychological TestNormative dataSystematic ReviewVerbal fluency

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