Spring 1995 Mission

'Generate verbs'

How do we make our memory work for us? This test has been instrumental in provoking a profile of memory serving cognition. In 1988, Peter T. Fox, MD, director of the Research Imaging Center, helped develop the test. He and others use the technique in experiments with cognition. Subjects see or hear a noun and must respond with an appropriate verb. An example: "hammer" might elicit the response "hit." Try these:

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