Verbal fluency in research conducted with PET technique under conditions of extended cognitive activation with the use of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) tracer
Author(s) -
Ludmiła Zając-Lamparska,
Monika Wiłkość-Dębczyńska,
Anita Markowska,
Ilona Laskowska,
Marek Wróbel,
Bogdan Małkowski
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
psychiatria polska
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.414
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2391-5854
pISSN - 0033-2674
DOI - 10.12740/pp/onlinefirst/62394
Subject(s) - verbal fluency test , fluency , cognition , fluorodeoxyglucose , positron emission tomography , tracer , psychology , medicine , cognitive psychology , nuclear medicine , neuropsychology , neuroscience , physics , mathematics education , nuclear physics
Functional neuroimaging of the brain is a widely used method to study cognitive functions. The aim of this study was to compare the activity of the brain during performance of the tasks of phonemic and semantic fluency with the paced-overt technique in terms of prolonged activation of the brain.
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