ISSN 0439-755X
CN 11-1911/B

›› 1994, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (03): 289-295.

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A COMPARED INVESTIGATION OF FRONTAL AND NONFRONTAL TUMOR ON WORD FLUENCY TEST

Wang Xiaoming(Beijing Neurosurgical Institute)Xu Shulian(Institute of Psychology,Academia Sinica,Beijing)   

  • Published:1994-09-25 Online:1994-09-25

Abstract: The purpose was to explore the process and characteristics of speaking words of the same category,and words not of the same category and Stroop Test on patients with frontal,temporal and parietal-occipital tumor,The results indicaded that(1) The total number of speaking the same category of words in the fontal group was significantly poorer than that of the temporal group,(2)The time for reading colored words and word color of the frontal group was markedly longer than the temporal and parietal-occipital groups,(3) There was a higher rate of error in speaking colored words and word color of the frontal group than the parietal and normal groups,(4)The scores of speaking black colored words and word-color in the left brain tumor group was lower than the right brain tumor group,These results supported the fact that compared with temporal and parietal-occipital tumor,frontal tumor easily affected the ability of word memory,selected attention and category ability of the subjects.

Key words: brain tumor, word fluency, Stroop Test