word association

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The researchers then explored whether AI success on this simple word association task could extend to more complex and realistic creative activities.

From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2026

I stood on one foot while tracking a swinging ball with my eyes, I did word association while walking backward, and I completed memory exercises.

From Slate • Mar. 17, 2024

Then when pressed, he’s a font of nonsensical word association.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2023

With an aw-shucks demeanor, Booth deflected my professional compliment and articulated his appreciation of newspapers, which he read partly to generate word association ideas for his cartoons.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022

The common use of the word association for almost every kind of connection has rendered this subject difficult; from which inaccuracy I fear some parts of this work are not exempt.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus