SAT阅读扩展:your temporal lobe.

SAT阅读扩展素材 Do you know where words are stored in your brain…? In your tem­po­ral lobe! As you know your brain has two sides (two hemi­spheres) con­nected by the cor­pus cal­lo­sum. So you have one tem­po­ral lobe on each side of the brain. If you are right-handed, your lan­guage is stored mostly in your lt tem­po­ral lobe. If you are lt-handed, you are not so lat­er­al­ized and your lan­guage is stored a bit on both sides of your brain in the tem­po­ral lobes. Words in the brain are not stored ran­domly. They seemed to be quite orga­nized. Research has shown that words that are often heard together (such as salt and pep­per) or words that share some mean­ing (such as nurse and doc­tor) are con­nected or asso­ci­ated in the brain. Once you hear one, the other is activated. Here is a brain exer­cise whose aim is to stim­u­late the con­nec­tions or asso­ci­a­tions between words in your tem­po­ral lobe. In the lt col­umn you have a pair of words. Your goal is to find a third word that is con­nected or asso­ci­ated with both of these two words. The first pair is PIANO and LOCK. The answer is KEY. The word key is con­nected with both the word piano and the word lock: there are KEYS on a piano and you use a KEY to lock doors. Key is what is called a homo­graph: a word that has more than one mean­ing but is always spelled the same. 1. LOCK — PIANO 2. SHIP — CARD 3. TREE — CAR 4. SCHOOL — EYE 5. PILLOW — COURT 6. RIVER — MONEY 7. BED — PAPER 8. ARMY — WATER 9. TENNIS — NOISE 10. EGYPTIAN — MOTHER 11. SMOKER — PLUMBER