Language and executive function skills as predictors of semantic fluency performance in pre-school children.
Purpose: To explore how language and executive function skills of pre-school-aged children contribute to semantic fluency (a form of verbal fluency) performance. This study investigated effect of age and contribution of vocabulary and executive function on qualitative aspects of the semantic fluency...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 24; no. 6; pp. 626 - 636 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2022
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