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Barbara Gawda¹, Ewa Malgorzata Szepietowska²

¹Department of Psychology, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland. bgawda@wp.pl

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Men and women show distinct verbal fluency skills. This study found significant sex differences in affective verbal fluency, but not semantic verbal fluency.

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Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Linguistics

Background:

Verbal fluency is a key cognitive function.
Previous research suggests potential sex-based differences in verbal abilities.
Understanding these differences is crucial for cognitive assessments.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate sex differences in semantic and affective verbal fluency.
To analyze performance across different verbal fluency tasks.
To determine the predictive power of sex on verbal fluency types.

Main Methods:

Utilized four verbal fluency tasks: semantic (Animals, Fruits) and affective (Pleasant, Unpleasant).
Analyzed data from 200 adults aged 18-70 years.
Recorded metrics including word count, phonemic/semantic clusters, and switches.

Main Results:

Confirmed sex differences in verbal fluency performance.
Found statistically significant differences between men and women in affective tasks.
Determined that sex is not a strong predictor for semantic verbal fluency but is significant for negative affective verbal fluency.

Conclusions:

Sex influences affective verbal fluency more than semantic verbal fluency.
Affective verbal fluency, particularly negative, shows notable sex-based distinctions.
These findings contribute to understanding cognitive sex differences in language processing.