Thurstone Word Fluency Test

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Thurstone Word Fluency Test
SynonymsChicago Word Fluency Test
Purposemeasure an individual's symbolic verbal fluency

The Thurstone Word Fluency Test, also known as the Chicago Word Fluency Test (CWFT),

Louis Thurstone in 1938.[2] This test became the first word fluency psychometrically measured test available to patients with brain damage.[3] The test is a used to measure an individual's symbolic verbal fluency.[4][5][6]
The test asks the subject to write as many words as possible beginning with the letter 'S' within a 5-minute limit, then as many words as possible beginning with letter 'C' within 4 minute limit. The total number of 'S' and 'C' words produced, minus the number of rule-breaking and perseverative responses, yield the patients' measure of verbal fluency.

The CWFT is used as one of the measures of brain's frontal lobe function. A related test, the

Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery
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  1. ISBN 978-0-7167-9586-5
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  2. PMID 18933605
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  3. ISBN 9780198032250
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  4. PMID 7174838
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  5. S2CID 26611942
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  6. S2CID 36676656
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