Saturday, February 18, 2012

Word Associations Around the World

Science needs you help! 5 minutes, so you don't even have to log off Facebook!

I heard about an ongoing study that needs English speakers to briefly volunteer for a language experiment on the Internet: The word association task only takes 5 minutes and involves naming words that are related to a few words that you are presented with.

The goal of the webpage by Dr. Gert Storms and Dr. Simon De Deyne is to collect word association data from thousands of English speaking adults around the world in order to help explain word meaning and semantic relationships among words. The data collected from this Internet experiment will also provide a resource to cognitive scientists and other language researchers.