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This study introduces an automated method to analyze word characteristics in naming fluency tasks, revealing links between word properties and cognitive performance. The findings offer new insights into executive function and working memory assessment.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Computational Linguistics

Background:

  • Letter-guided naming fluency tasks assess executive functions and working memory.
  • Manual analysis of these tasks is labor-intensive and lacks quantification.
  • Automated methods are needed to objectively analyze language characteristics in fluency tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a novel automated method for analyzing language features in letter-guided naming fluency tasks.
  • To investigate the relationship between word characteristics (e.g., frequency, AoA, phonetic/semantic distance) and fluency performance, response time, and task duration.
  • To establish a reproducible and quantifiable approach for analyzing fluency data.

Main Methods:

  • Digitized F-letter fluency recordings from 76 healthy young adults were analyzed using an automated algorithm.
  • Words were assessed for concreteness, ambiguity, frequency, familiarity, and age of acquisition (AoA).
  • Inter-word response time (RT), word duration, and articulation rate were measured using forced alignment; phonetic and semantic distances were computed.

Main Results:

  • Total fluency score correlated with word frequency, familiarity, AoA, word duration, phonetic similarity, and articulation rate.
  • Response time (RT) was associated with word frequency, ambiguity, AoA, phoneme count, and phonetic/semantic distances.
  • Word frequency, ambiguity, AoA, phoneme count, and semantic distance varied significantly over the task duration.

Conclusions:

  • The automated language processing pipeline successfully captured rich linguistic information from a standardized neuropsychological task.
  • This novel approach enhances the informativeness of fluency tasks, providing insights not obtainable through manual analysis.
  • The method serves as a reference for analyzing letter-guided category fluency, applicable to studies involving neurodegenerative patients.