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The Small World of Words
Word association is a funny thing. If I say “dog”, you might instantly think of “cat” or “bone” or “furry”. Those links make pretty logical sense, but why, exactly, do those links exist?
The psychology and neuroscience of why and how we link certain words together are areas of intense study. Not only can it allow us to unlock parts of a person’s subconscious mind, but it can help explain how language is organized in our brains.
Want to play a little game to help move this research forward? Good!
Head over to Small World of Words and you can take a short quiz on word association. You’re given several word prompts and you enter the first three things that come to mind. For instance, for “seeker”, I entered “Harry Potter”, “find” and “quidditch”. It might be the largest word association database on Earth, with more than 60,000 entrants.
Go have a little fun, for science!
Date liked: 2012/12/13 21:12:06
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Original link: http://www.smallworldofwords.com/tests/
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