Influence of education and gender on FAS, animal naming and fruit naming

The main objetive of this paper is to study the influence of education and gender on a phonological verbal fluency test called FAS and a semantic verb al fluency task using two categories which were Animals and Fruits. Also, t his study was conducted on an age range between 20 and 30 years old because (1) there were no data, to our knowledge, about the performance of these s ubjects on these tasks in Spanish speaking subjects, and (2) it is in this age range when Traumatic Brain Injury happens more frequently. Seventy five volunteers participated belonging to 8th, 12th and 15th year of education groups. The results showed that the 15th year of education group performed better than the 12th year education group, and the later performed better t han the 8th year education group. There was no effect of gender. These resu lts were disscussed in relation to its clinic utility and other English spe aking samples.