What is his name that person? What is her name? How many times does it happen that we know a person very well, but... His name doesn't immediately come to mind. Yet, as soon as it comes to mind or someone suggests it to us, we are sure that we remember it very well. How can we train the mechanism to take that name when we need it?
We are at the twenty-third episode of the column "Mental gymnastics" for a "winning brain”, the result of the collaboration of FIRST online 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 that stimulates a different mental ability is proposed on FIRSTonline. In the banner on the right of our home page or here all the exercises already published, which have stimulated each time, are grouped together a different ability of our brain.
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 23: “The Chained Names”
This week we propose the exercise of mental gymnastics “Chained Names” for the column “The winning brain” which develops and strengthens the following ones mental skills: Language, Memory of names, Concentration, Planning.
The exercise is designed specifically for find the names, exploiting the 'piglio' mechanism, i.e. that condition that allows us to recover the name from the initial part of the word. For example, if the name Beatrice doesn't come to mind, it is enough for someone to suggest "that begins with BE" to recover the name.
Delivery: Write a chain of 10 names, each must start with the last two letters of the previous name. We start with the name ALBA. Example: Ada, Damiano, Norma, … etc.
Execution time: 120 seconds.
Score: 10 points for each name.
Traguardo: Score at least 100 points in 120 seconds.
Strengthening: write the sequence without repeating names already written.
variants: Write the sequence of names using the second to last and third to last letters. Example: Damiano, Antonio, Nino, etc.
Call: Write the chain of names you wrote in the comments
