A Qualitative Analysis of Verbal Fluency Tasks in Normal Japanese Adults

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Abstract:We developed a qualitative analysis method for verbal fluency tasks in Japanese natives. In this paper, we discuss the validity and characteristics of our qualitative analysis. The purpose of study 1 was to detect and visualize clusters seen during animal category verbal fluency. We used cluster analysis with collocation ratios between animal names seen in verbal fluency tasks as parameters. The purpose of study 2 was to verify the consistency between clusters seen during animal category verbal fluency and semantic similarity. We carried out a semantic similarity decision task of animal names and analyzed the scores with cluster analysis techniques. We compared the results with the results obtained in study 1. The purpose of study 3 was to examine the characteristics of our qualitative analysis method. We used principal component analysis on the collocation ratios obtained in study 1 and semantic similarity scores obtained in study 2 and compared the results. The results of 臨床福祉専門学校言語聴覚療法学科 1）