Word Fluency Test
AKA: COWAT, Controlled Oral Word Association Test, Letter Fluency Test, Verbal Associative Fluency Test, Word Retrieval Task
Test Variations
This script implements a word fluency test (similar to the COWAT) as described in Borkowski et al (1966) in which participants type their responses.
This script implements a word fluency test (similar to the COWAT) as described in Borkowski et al (1966) in which verbal responses are recorded.
References
Search Google Scholar for peer-reviewed, published research using the Inquisit Word Fluency Test.
Anderson, N. (1965). Word associations to individual letters. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 4(6), 541-545.
Borkowski, John G., Benton, Arthur L., & Spreen, Otfried. (1967). Word fluency and brain damage. Neuropsychologia, 5(2), 135-140.
Ross, T. (2003). The reliability of cluster and switch scores for the Controlled Oral Word Association Test. Archives Of Clinical Neuropsychology, 18(2), 153-164.
Rodriguez-Aranda, C., & Martinussen, M. (2006). Age-related differences in performance of phonemic verbal fluency measured by Controlled Oral Word Association Task (COWAT): A meta-analytic study. Developmental Neuropsychology, 30(2), 697-717.
Holcomb, M., Kimball, T., Luther, E., Belsher, B., Botelho, R., Reed, A., . . . Kinoshita, T. (2009). Relationship between PTSD, Age, Education, and COWAT Responses in Older Veterans. Archives Of Clinical Neuropsychology, 24(5), 454-455.
Porter, James N., Collins, Paul F., Muetzel, Ryan L., Lim, Kelvin O., & Luciana, Monica. (2011). Associations between cortical thickness and verbal fluency in childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. NeuroImage, 55(4), 1865-1877.
Oral, Elif, Canpolat, Serpil, Yildirim, Serap, Gulec, Mustafa, Aliyev, Elvin, & Aydin, Nazan. (2012). Cognitive functions and serum levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in patients with major depressive disorder. Brain Research Bulletin, 88(5), 454-459.