This is what we are interested in researching.

The third step is word choice, during which the correct word needs to be selected from among all the activated words.

include pear, plum, or peach (see Figure 1). Other words beside apple that might activate when we think about the concepts sweet, crunchy, juicy, etc. The concepts associated with the picture of an apple can also be associated with words other than apple.

In the second step, we access all the words 1 we associate with the concepts we thought of in step 1.

These concepts help define what the object we see is we can define an apple as a fruit that is sweet, crunchy, and juicy. For example, a few concepts that are related to apples include sweet, crunchy, juicy, etc.

The first step is to think of the concepts associated with the picture of an apple.Choosing our words is just one of the steps we will describe below with the example of what our brain needs to do in order for us to name a picture of an apple. Although the word apple comes easily to mind, several processes and brain regions are needed to allow us to fetch the word apple from among all the words we have in memory. Take, for example, naming a picture of an apple. The process of speaking, however, is not as simple in our brains as it seems when we are talking. Speaking is one of the actions we do the most every day and most people are very good at it: healthy fluent speakers can easily say 2–3 words per second, selected from tens of thousands of words in our mental dictionary (over 50,000 for adults!). Here, we studied what happens to our ability to choose words when parts of these brain regions (the left frontal cortex in particular) are damaged. Although the word apple comes easily to mind, several processes and brain regions are needed to allow us to fetch the word apple among all the words we have in our memory.

Speaking is one of the actions we do the most every day and most people are very good at it: healthy fluent speakers can easily say 2–3 words per second, selected from tens of thousands of words in our mental dictionary.

Speek or speak