Executive abilities were assessed with the Digit Span Backwards from WAIS-III-R [ Wechsler, 1999], part B of Trail Making Test [ Strauss, 2006], Phonological fluency (letter P) [ Strauss, 2006], and Semantic fluency test (animals) [ Strauss, 2006].
Executive abilities were assessed with the digit span backwards from WAIS-III-R) [Wechsler, 1999], Phonological fluency (letter P) [Strauss et al., 2006], and semantic fluency (animals) [Strauss et al., 2006].
Initially, the semantic verbal fluency (animals) and the phonemic verbal fluency (letter F) tests were analyzed separately, but there were no differences in the direction and magnitude of the associations found.
Subjects were also evaluated on a test of verbal fluency (letters, animals, groceries, and animals) (Lezak 1983).
Ten minutes after finishing drug administration they were tested with the verbal fluency (letters) and Randt memory test (5 items acquisition, paired words acquisition, immediate recall, delayed recall, and short story).
Neuropsychological tests included in that analysis were phonemic and category fluency, Letter-Number Sequencing, Digit Span Backward, Self-Ordered Pointing, the Number-Letter task, a modified Flanker task, the Trail Making test, the Digit-Symbol test, the Face-Name Associative Memory Examination, the Six-Trial Selective Reminding test, and the Memory Capacity test.
In the Word Fluency Task (letter, category), subjects were given an initial letter (letter fluency task) or a certain category (category fluency task) as a cue [26].
Regional hemodynamic changes were monitored during a verbal fluency task (letter version) using a 52-channel NIRS apparatus in 27 female ED patients and 27 matched healthy controls, and their correlations with clinical symptoms assessed using the Eating Attitude Scale (EAT-26) were examined.
The cognitive activation task, which was described previously [21], [22], [28], included a 30-sec pretask baseline, a 60-sec verbal fluency task (letter version), and a 70-sec posttask baseline while sitting on a chair.
This lack of influence was confirmed in a hierarchical regression analysis with Semantic-, Phonetic fluency and Letter Number Span as dependent variables.
The BACS-J cognitive battery consists of the following six subtests that target unique domains of cognition: list learning (verbal memory), a digit-sequencing task (working memory), a token motor task (motor speed), category fluency and letter fluency (verbal fluency), symbol coding (attention and processing speed), and the Tower of London task (TOL; executive function).
