It may happen that while we are talking let's change a word substituting one letter for another, say half a word or one word for another. These phenomena can be due to a moment of agitation or lack of attention or to an incorrect functioning of the 'piglio', that is, the mechanism that takes words from the mental vocabulary (technically it is called "lexical warehouse").
We are at episode number 42 of the column “Mental gymnastics" for a "Winning Brain” the result of the collaboration of FIRST online with the professor Giuseppe Alfredo Iannoccari, neuropsychologist, professor at the State University of Milan and president of Assomensana, the association for the development and enhancement of mental activities. Every Sunday a mental gymnastics exercise is proposed on FIRSTonline that stimulates different mental abilities. In the banner on the right of our home page or here all the exercises already published are grouped together, which have stimulated a different ability of our brain each time.
Let's remember the basic rules
For each exercise you will be shown:
- which cognitive functions it stimulates
- what purpose does it serve in everyday life
- delivery to carry out the exercise
- how long should the execution time be?
- how to calculate the score
- the finish line for an optimal score
- how to make it more empowering
- which variations to adopt to continue doing so
Mental Gymnastics Exercise Number 42: “Disordered Vowels”
This week we propose the new exercise “Disordered Vowels” that develops and strengthens the following mental skills: Language, Concentration, Mental Flexibility, Processing Speed. Today's exercise allows you to increase the effectiveness of speech, speed and clarity of expression, making us feel more confident when we speak.
Delivery: Write a sentence of 10 words, exchanging the position of the vowels in each word. After writing it, read it and repeat it several times until it becomes easy to express it quickly and without errors. Here is an examplesemi:
“Good morning, today is a beautiful day, I'm happy to see you” turns into
“Boungoirno, iggo is anu balle goirnata, I’m one hundred to go” (the vowels have been swapped places).
Execution time: 120 sec.
Score: 10 points for each word used and repeated correctly.
Traguardo: score 100 points in 120 seconds.
Strengthening: write and repeat a sentence of 15 or 20 words.
variants: Invent consonants.
Call: Write your sentence in the comments
