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How Exercise Can Help You Recall Words

How Exercise Can Help You Recall Words (nytimes.com)

Aerobic fitness may help you avoid lapses in your vocabulary.

This report reminds me of an episode of Westworld. Call them tip-of-the-tongue moments: those times we can’t quite call up the name or word that we know we know. These frustrating lapses are thought to be caused by a brief disruption in the brain’s ability to access a word’s sounds. We haven’t forgotten the word,…