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The Links Between Executive and Linguistic Processes and Their Lesional Determinants From a Verbal Fluency Task
Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens
Summary
Verbal fluency test require to produce as much words as possible in one or two minutes. This test is highly sensitive to main brain diseases and are therefore widely used in clinical routine for diagnostic purpose. The verbal fluency task requires several cognitive processes including executive and linguistic processes for which it is difficult to extract the origin of the deficit. For this reason, fluency tests are variably interpreted in terms of executive or language. The implementation of an experimental protocol exploring each of these processes separately and studying the links between the verbal fluency task and each of these processes should allow a better understanding of the origin of the verbal fluency deficit after brain injury and improve the identification of key brain structures. Indeed, the lesion determinants of this task remain to be clarified despite remarkable advances due to the evolution of imaging techniques (voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM); voxel-based morphometry (VBM)). Furthermore, while the direct assessment of linguistic process, semantic memory, and processing speed is well defined, the examination of the executive component (i.e., strategic search process) remains unsettled and will be undertaken in this study. This work will take advantage of data from previous multicenter work, validated methodologies for both analysis and interpretation of cognitive performance as well as anatomic-clinical correlations at the voxel level and will be performed in cognitive neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular disease.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
302
Start Date
2023-05-16
Completion Date
2029-11
Last Updated
2025-05-25
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
linguistic processes
Linguistic processes are assessed by performance score on the following tests: * naming tests : BNT 34 (Colombo \& Assal, 1992) and semantic naming adapted from the BECS-GRECO (Merck et al., 2011) * vocabulary test (Mill Hill - Deltour, 1993), * repetition tests (Gremots - Bézy et al., 2016), * articulatory speed (Majerus, 2014 ; Roussel et al., 2012) * semantic matching task adapted from the PPT (Howard \& Patterson, 1992) and from the BECS-GRECO (Merck et al., 2011), * semantic categorization and attributes adapted from the BECS-GRECO (Merck et al., 2011), * phonologic and semantic research tasks adapted from the color TMT (D'helia et al., 1996)
Locations (1)
CHU Amiens
Amiens, France