Executive functioning moderates the decline of retrieval fluency in time.

ABSTRACT: Prevailing theoretical accounts consider that automatic and controlled processes are uniformly engaged in memory retrieval across performance of the semantic verbal fluency (SVF) task. We tested this proposal against the alternative, namely that a rapid automatic retrieval, exploiting stable associative structure in the early stages of the performance, is followed by a slower, more executively demanding, retrieval in later stages. Eighty-five healthy adults completed low- and high-demand SVF tasks that were assessed for retrieval rate, response typicality, and inter-response similarity across the performance. Additional measures of executive functioning were collected to estimate individual differences in executive control. We found that decrease in fluency in time was associated with lowe

SUBMITTER: Michalko D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11189984 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature