Memory Searching Pathway Underlying Verb Fluency
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Verbal fluency is one of the most widely used measures of cognitive functioning, in which subjects produce as many different words as possible from a given criterion (e.g., animal category) within 1 minute. Compared to noun category fluency, there are fewer studies on verb fluency, even though verbs are thought to play a more prominent role in organizing mental lexicon and in describing events. Thus, studying verb fluency may give us additional insights into mental lexicon organization and provide potentially different diagnostic information. The current study compares memory search pathway underlying verb fluency to noun (animal category) fluency using a cognitive modeling approach.