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41 Cognitive Skills in 6 Areas
Attention
The skills that help us control the focus of our attention and screen out distractions. These skills include: Sustained Attention (Visual and Auditory), Selective Attention (Visual and Auditory), Divided Attention, and Flexible Attention.
Memory
The ability to screen, hold onto, manipulate, store and retrieve information in our minds. These skills include: Short-Term Sensory Memory (Visual and Auditory), Immediate Memory (Visual and Auditory), Working Memory, Visual Spatial Memory, Long-Term Memory, Sequential Memory (Visual and Auditory), and Visual Simultaneous Memory.
Thinking
The ability to abstract and process information rapidly to solve a problem or meet a goal. These skills include: Logic, Reasoning, Planning, Problem-Solving, Strategic Thinking, Visual Thinking, Conceptual Thinking and Decision Speed.
Sensory Integration
The ability to process and make a coherent whole out of multiple sensory inputs and to control how our bodies interact with the environment. These skills include: Oculomotor skills, Visual-Motor Integration, Auditory-Motor Integration, Timing & Rhythm and Visual-Auditory Integration.
Auditory Processing
The skills that take in and process auditory information efficiently and accurately. These skills include: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Sequential Processing, and Auditory Processing Speed.
Visual Processing
The skills the enable us to take in and process visual information efficiently and accurately. These include: Visual Discrimination, Visual Figure Ground, Visual Form Consistency, Directionality, Visual Span, Visual Simultaneous Processing, Visual Sequential Processing, Visualization and Visual Processing Speed
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That Was Easy! — by Betsy Hill
On Super Bowl Sunday, my 8-year-old nephew graciously tolerated the adults in our house (most of whom are still 8 years old at heart, if truth be told). He held his own in a game of guessing what the next commercial would be on television (cars? beer? fast food? insurance?), as well as Crazy Eights [...]
Working Memory Limits Affect College Students’ Reading — by Betsy Hill
A researcher from the University of Alberta describes the problem this way, “The students invest most of their time on reading and they forget the meaning. They read and they decode the whole passage. So, by the time they get to the end, they forget what the first paragraph was talking about.” Startlingly, the students [...]
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BrainWare Announcements
New Approaches to Assessment: Getting Every Student to "I Can"
February 21 is the date for our next Neuroscience in Education Webinar. Michael Patterson, CEO of Avant Assessment, will discuss some of the important questions around assessments -- how our understanding of the role of assessments us changing, how to measure proficiency, and how to get students engaged in monitoring their own performance and progress. Register.
BrainWare Safari Brain Awareness Week Grants
We are excited to announce the creation of the BrainWare Safari Brain Awareness Week Grants, leading up to the celebration of Brain Awareness Week, March 12-18, 2012. Under the program, up to 16 school applicants will receive a variety of awards with a value totaling over $100,000 in licenses for BrainWare Safari cognitive development software. Learn more and apply.