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Brain exercise: Better than coffee

September 14, 2006 by Alvaro Fernandez

 

Quick! say aloud what col­or you see in every word below, NOT the word you read 🙂

The Stroop test is used in neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal eval­u­a­tions to mea­sure men­tal vital­i­ty and flex­i­bil­i­ty, since per­form­ing well requires strong inhi­bi­tion capability.

 

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Brain Teasers, Brain-exercises, Brain-Fitness, Brain-games, Brain-Training, Mental-flexibility, Mental-Health, Mind-Fitness, Mind-Games, Neuropsychology, stroop-neuropsychological, what-is-the-stroop-test

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  1. Maria says

    September 14, 2006 at 8:23

    This is tricky–and fun! Thanks for the men­tal calisthenics!
    –Maria

  2. Beate says

    September 20, 2006 at 10:28

    Ha! I real­ly slowed down when the col­or and word no longer coin­cid­ed. Asso­ci­a­tion is a strong pre­dicter of response!

  3. Victoria says

    September 21, 2006 at 4:34

    Answer: Brown

  4. Alvaro says

    September 25, 2006 at 10:34

    Hap­py that you enjoyed it!

  5. Aaron says

    September 29, 2006 at 2:31

    The trick of these is dis­so­ci­at­ing from the text itself. A slight relax­ation of the pupils and the text becomes blurred allow­ing one to focus only on the color.

  6. Alvaro says

    September 30, 2006 at 9:13

    Aaron: great trick. You can cer­tain­ly do that. Alter­na­tive­ly, you can train your brain to inhib­it your nat­ur­al response and instead devel­op a new response pattern.

  7. halo1 says

    May 3, 2007 at 10:34

    its hard

  8. shashank says

    December 11, 2007 at 10:58

    blue col­or , its all filled inside all the let­ters of the words given .

  9. Alvaro says

    December 11, 2007 at 6:20

    Shasha: a very cre­ative, and tech­ni­cal­ly cor­rect, answer 🙂 Now, can you also say the col­or of each word?

  10. SammyP says

    May 15, 2008 at 6:31

    That’s hard at first…but when I group the words by col­or (all reds, all greens, etc) and then jump around to that col­or it becomes very easy. I think that might be cheat­ing. (I like shashank’s answer too)

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