2 studies, including 16 Ss in each, were performed to investigate the effect of concurrent activity on the maintenance of word meanings (verbal satiation). It was found, in both studies, that words repeated with activity maintained their meanings significantly longer than words repeated without activity. Word meaning maintenance was also found to relate to the kind of concurrent activity: words were more facilitated by actions customarily paired with them (e.g., push with pushing activity) than by actions not customarily paired with them. In addition, results indicated that a word could be maintained longer when the concurrent activity included (Experiment II) the added sensory input of vision. (18 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)