TY - JOUR
T1 - Searching for the right word
T2 - Performance on four word-retrieval tasks across childhood
AU - Kavé, Gitit
AU - Kukulansky-Segal, Dorit
AU - Avraham, Ayelet
AU - Herzberg, Orly
AU - Landa, Janna
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by grant # 3000003639 from the Chief Scientist Office of the Israeli Ministry of Health, Israel, as well as by research fund # 46310 from the Open University of Israel. We wish to thank Suzy Bracha, Odelya Chiprot, Nilly Degany, Inbar Morag, Hadas Nagar-Turgeman, Adi Shaked, Shani Waidergorean, and Rivka Ziv for their help in data collection and preparation. There are no financial or other relationships that could be interpreted as a conflict of interests.
PY - 2010/11
Y1 - 2010/11
N2 - Word retrieval was assessed in 207 normally developing Hebrew-speaking children aged 8-17 through four tasks: picture naming, phonemic fluency, semantic fluency, and homophone meaning generation (HMGT). Scores on all tests correlated positively and significantly with participant age. Yet, age effects and the correlation between age and test scores were weakest for the naming test and strongest for the HMGT. We discuss the nature of the word search involved in each task and suggest that the more executive demands required by a test the steeper the slope of performance increase on this test.
AB - Word retrieval was assessed in 207 normally developing Hebrew-speaking children aged 8-17 through four tasks: picture naming, phonemic fluency, semantic fluency, and homophone meaning generation (HMGT). Scores on all tests correlated positively and significantly with participant age. Yet, age effects and the correlation between age and test scores were weakest for the naming test and strongest for the HMGT. We discuss the nature of the word search involved in each task and suggest that the more executive demands required by a test the steeper the slope of performance increase on this test.
KW - Executive lexical search
KW - Language
KW - Naming
KW - Verbal fluency
KW - Word retrieval
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78249255801&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09297049.2010.485124
DO - 10.1080/09297049.2010.485124
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C2 - 20544436
AN - SCOPUS:78249255801
SN - 0929-7049
VL - 16
SP - 549
EP - 563
JO - Child Neuropsychology
JF - Child Neuropsychology
IS - 6
ER -