Feb 9, 2008 79
Brain Teaser: Words in your brain, learn as you exercise!
Do you know where words are stored in your brain…?
In your temporal lobe! (in green on this profile view of the right side of your brain).
As you know your brain has two sides (two hemispheres) connected by the corpus callosum. So you have one temporal lobe on each side of the brain.
If you are right-handed, your language is stored mostly in your left temporal lobe. If you are left-handed, you are not so lateralized and your language is stored a bit on both sides of your brain in the temporal lobes.
Words in the brain are not stored randomly. They seemed to be quite organized. Research has shown that words that are often heard together (such as salt and pepper) or words that share some meaning (such as nurse and doctor) are connected or associated in the brain. Once you hear one, the other is activated.
Here is a brain exercise whose aim is to stimulate the connections or associations between words in your temporal lobe.
In the left column you have a Read the rest of this entry »
Quick! say aloud what color you see in every word, NOT the word you read.
