Brain exercise: Better than coffee

 

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.

 

10 Comments

  1. Maria on September 14, 2006 at 8:23

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



  2. Beate on 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 on September 21, 2006 at 4:34

    Answer: Brown



  4. Alvaro on September 25, 2006 at 10:34

    Hap­py that you enjoyed it!



  5. Aaron on 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 on 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 on May 3, 2007 at 10:34

    its hard



  8. shashank on December 11, 2007 at 10:58

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



  9. Alvaro on 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 on 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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