They show you fourteen words, one at a time, and you type in the first three words that come to your mind in the three empty fields below the prompt-word.
If nothing comes to your mind, you're supposed to type "no response." I had one word where that happened (the word was "grief", and instead of seeing an image I could describe, or a color, or hearing the word echo and mutate into various sound-alikes, I actually felt an attenuated version of grief itself), so I entered that into all three fields.
They do want everyone taking the test to be a fluent English speaker, but other than that there are no restrictions. And you can be from anywhere, and you don't have to be a native speaker --- just fluent.
Probably, if your English is good enough for you to be reading this blog, you can participate in this study.
3 comments:
Thanks for posting about this - it was absolutely fascinating. It inspired a blog post of my own, which I haven't finished yet because I ran out of time, but yeah. Thank you. That was really cool.
Yay! I'm glad you took it, too. I think the project rocks and the more people who contribute to it, the more awesome it will end up being.
I just launched another project on word meaning (spec. verb meaning), which takes a different look at meaning that the SWoW project (we investigate components of meaning, rather than associations).
You can find the project here and read the project announcement here.
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