Dr. Jennifer Groh

system that's in operation.

And maybe you need to shift some resources away from processing the conversation and towards some, you know, actually dealing with the here and now sensory motor task.

It's predictable.

Like you can see the train of thought sometimes.

Like they rarely jump completely in some totally new.

Do they really?

One time in my class, one of my undergraduate classes, I asked people to try to, without thinking too much, come up with a word that was totally and completely unrelated to anything that we had just been talking about.

Ooh.

I'm gonna give you a moment, but not too long.

Okay.

Isn't it hard?

But again, it's gonna be related.

And, you know, these are kids that probably have a 30,000 word vocabulary, right?

That's a typical side vocabulary.

Young brains.

And I had like 15 students in the class.

I think two of them came up with the word elephant.

And three of them came up with the word banana, you know, like they were clearly not random words.

Oh, totally.

Yeah, I think that sounds good to me.