Language and thinking: positive and negative effects of naming.
Subjects instructed to think of novel shapes in terms of relevant names made fewer errors in recalling a serial ordering of the shapes, but more errors in solving a mental jigsaw puzzle and in drawing the shapes from memory, than subjects instructed to visualize the shapes without using words.
D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008568:Memory; D011939:Mental Recall; D009275:Names; D013850:Thinking
LANGUAGE; THINKING