National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Incorporated

Kyouko Kanzaki

Norio Fujimaki

Tomoe Hayakawa

Hitoshi Isahara

The device of the present invention can automatically extract words under accurately controlled set conditions. A word presenting means presents words to a subject, a biological activity measuring means measures the biological activity in the subject, and a calculation means receives a biological activity signal from the biological activity measuring means and calculates time from presenting the words until detecting a biological activity by the subject accompanied with the word. The calculation means is equipped with a word database where word data indicating words are stored and can be presented to the subject, a category data of the words and attribute data of the words are related and also stored, respectively, and a word extractor to search the word database and to extract the word data belonging to or relating to a predetermined category, and, satisfying predetermined word attribute, based upon the search conditions. The word presenting means presents a portion of or entire words indicated by the word data extracted by the word presenting means to the subject.

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Koganei, Japan

Kyouko Kanzaki