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Sentence completion test is a category of tests. The use of sentence completion test in psychology was as early as Hermann Ebbinghaus; he used this test to measure reasoning ability and intellectual capacity in children. Here we will focus on the Hayling Sentence Completion Test (Burgess and Shallice 1996), which is a test of response initiation and response suppression.
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Frontal lobe lesions can cause deficits in both response initiation and suppression. Response initiation is conventionally evaluated with the verbal fluency test, and response suppression is usually measured with the Stroop test in clinical settings. Patients with left frontal lesions performed poorer in Stroop test than patients with lesions elsewhere, and they also showed poorer performance in verbal fluency test. However, given the different cognitive processing such as switching may have been captured by these tests, the observed results may not truly reflect the response...
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Wang, Y., Chan, R.C. (2017). Hayling Sentence Completion Test. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_85-1
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