Verbal Fluency
Verbal fluency is the ability to rapidly access your mental vocabulary while talking or writing. Quick wit, snappy exchanges, and persuasive communications rely upon this ability to quickly connect words.
That annoying tip-of-the-tongue state is due to weakened connections between linguistic representations of the brain. Priming these word systems has shown to help with language retrieval.
Used for:
- Language
- Tip-of-the-tongue word finding
- Thinking outside of the box
Verbal fluency games
References:
Burke, D. M., & Shafto, M. A. (2004). Aging and Language Production. Current Directions in Psychological Science: A Journal of the American Psychological Society, 13(1), 21-24.
Karpicke, J. D., & Roediger, H. L. (2008). The critical importance of retrieval for learning. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5865), 966-8.
Shafto, M. A., Burke, D. M., Stamatakis, E. A., Tam, P. P., & Tyler, L. K. (2007). On the tip-of-the-tongue: neural correlates of increased word-finding failures in normal aging. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(12), 2060-70.
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