@article{ref1,
title="The effect of childhood traumatic brain injury on verbal fluency performance: a systematic review and meta-analysis",
journal="Neuropsychology review",
year="2021",
author="Beal, Deryk S. and Kakonge, Lisa and Scratch, Shannon E. and Cermak, Carly A.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Verbal fluency is a neuropsychological measure commonly used to examine cognitive-linguistic performance as reported in pediatric TBI literature. We  synthesized the scholarly literature of verbal fluency performance in pediatric TBI  and estimated the effects of TBI according to: (i) type of verbal fluency task  (phonemic or semantic), (ii) severity of TBI, and (iii) time post-injury. Meta-analysis revealed that childhood TBI negatively impacted phonemic fluency and  semantic fluency and that effect sizes were larger for children with more severe  TBI. The negative effect of TBI was evident across time post injury within each  level of severity. Verbal fluency tasks are efficient indicators of potential  underlying impairments in lexical knowledge and executive functioning in children  with TBI regardless of severity of injury or time post injury. Future research  employing verbal fluency tasks are encouraged to explore if age at injury  differentiates semantic versus phonemic fluency outcomes across severity levels.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1040-7308",
doi="10.1007/s11065-020-09475-z",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11065-020-09475-z"
}