attention-training

Five quick brain teasers to flex those Attention and Working Memory mental muscles

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Look­ing for some fun cog­ni­tive stim­u­la­tion to kick­start the week?

Below you’ll find a few brain teasers to chal­lenge your atten­tion and your work­ing mem­ory–the abil­ity to keep infor­ma­tion in your mind while manip­u­lat­ing mul­ti­ple units of infor­ma­tion at the same time.

Give them a try … they are not as easy as they may sound 🙂 [Read more…] about Five quick brain teasers to flex those Atten­tion and Work­ing Mem­o­ry men­tal muscles

Initial study finds promise and limitations in using virtual reality (VR) to treat ADHD

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Giv­en the lim­i­ta­tions of exist­ing evi­dence-based ADHD treat­ments, i.e., stim­u­lant med­ica­tion and behav­ior ther­a­py — research on nov­el inter­ven­tion approach­es con­tin­ues to be important.

Cog­ni­tive train­ing is one such approach that has been sug­gest­ed as a poten­tial adjunct or even replace­ment for med­ica­tion treat­ment. While cog­ni­tive train­ing takes dif­fer­ent forms, e.g., com­put­er­ized atten­tion train­ing, work­ing mem­o­ry train­ing, the basic idea is that by repeat­ed­ly prac­tic­ing cog­ni­tive tasks relat­ed to atten­tion, one’s abil­i­ty to focus and attend will improve. In oth­er words, [Read more…] about Ini­tial study finds promise and lim­i­ta­tions in using vir­tu­al real­i­ty (VR) to treat ADHD

Study: Early-childhood attention skills help predict long-term academic success better than IQ, socioemotional skills, or socioeconomic status

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Which ear­ly child char­ac­ter­is­tics pre­dict long-term aca­d­e­m­ic achieve­ment and edu­ca­tion­al attain­ment? Research has focused on the role of ear­ly aca­d­e­m­ic skills, learn­ing enhanc­ing behav­iors, and socioe­mo­tion­al com­pe­ten­cies as pre­cur­sors of aca­d­e­m­ic suc­cess. Iden­ti­fy­ing the rel­a­tive con­tri­bu­tion of each to children’s long-term aca­d­e­m­ic achieve­ment is impor­tant as it can inform the skills on which ear­ly edu­ca­tion pro­grams should focus. [Read more…] about Study: Ear­ly-child­hood atten­tion skills help pre­dict long-term aca­d­e­m­ic suc­cess bet­ter than IQ, socioe­mo­tion­al skills, or socioe­co­nom­ic status

#5. Five quick brain teasers for teens and adults to flex two key mental muscles: Attention and Working Memory

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brain teasers for adults.

Look­ing for some fun, and free, cog­ni­tive stimulation?

Here you have a few quick brain teasers to exer­cise your atten­tion and your work­ing mem­ory–the abil­ity to keep infor­ma­tion in your mind while manip­u­lat­ing mul­ti­ple units of infor­ma­tion at the same time.

Giv­en them a try … they are not as easy as they may seem 🙂 [Read more…] about #5. Five quick brain teasers for teens and adults to flex two key men­tal mus­cles: Atten­tion and Work­ing Memory

Study: Neurofeedback brain training can complement ADHD stimulant medications

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schoolSchool-based brain train­ing shown to alle­vi­ate ADHD (The Boston Globe):

“With more than one in 10 chil­dren diag­nosed with atten­tion deficit hyper­ac­tiv­i­ty dis­or­der, par­ents and doc­tors alike have been eager to find alter­na­tives to pre­scrip­tion stim­u­lant med­ica­tions like Rital­in or Adder­all. Some of these options include [Read more…] about Study: Neu­ro­feed­back brain train­ing can com­ple­ment ADHD stim­u­lant medications

Study: Emerging brain computer interface can monitor and train attention in unmedicated ADHD children

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Train­ing pro­gram improved inat­ten­tive symp­toms in chil­dren with ADHD (Healio Pediatrics):

“An 8‑week inter­ven­tion with a brain-com­put­er inter­face-based atten­tion train­ing pro­gram sig­nif­i­cant­ly improved inat­ten­tive symp­toms asso­ci­at­ed with atten­tion-deficit/hy­per­ac­tiv­i­ty dis­or­der in chil­dren aged 6 to 12 years, accord­ing to recent study results [Read more…] about Study: Emerg­ing brain com­put­er inter­face can mon­i­tor and train atten­tion in unmed­icat­ed ADHD children