We offer five exercises to improve attention in children and adults developed by NeuronUP.
To improve attention, like other cognitive functions and processes, it needs to be trained. The NeuronUP cognitive stimulation program allows you to train attention and concentration and helps us activate the various brain functions with which we perceive and process our environment.
Working through worksheets, games and other activities, the different processes of attention (sustained attention, selective attention, alternating attention, processing speed and hemineglect) will improve the ability to concentrate, maintaining an adequate state of brain activation for correct information processing.
This cognitive function is crucial for effective neurorehabilitation in users affected by disorders such as ADHD or other neurodevelopmental disorders specific to learning. Also in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) especially to work on attentional slowing, in Alzheimer’s, where attention becomes more affected as the disease progresses, and in many traumatic brain injuries (TBI) where attention intervention is fundamental to rehabilitation.
Below we present some exercises to improve attention in children and adults developed by NeuronUP.
The selection of these attention stimulation and rehabilitation exercises consists of different online games and can be worked on from any computer or mobile device.
The activities presented combine different therapeutic exercises, rehabilitation techniques and learning methods aimed at re-training and improving the attentional skills each person needs most.
NeuronUP’s attention exercises and games adapt to the user by changing their difficulty as the user works with them, the level of the games and other parameters can also be modified by the professional to fine-tune the intervention to the maximum.
Cognitive stimulation and rehabilitation exercises to improve attention (games, worksheets and generators)
1. Matching Shapes
This first activity we present is ideal for working on selective attention with adults.
What does it involve?
The user will have to match shapes among several similar ones.
Play through levels
The user can train from an easy level to a more advanced one, as the professional deems appropriate:
Easy level
Advanced level
2. Organize the Bookcase
What does it involve?
An exercise to work on attention that requires a lot of concentration. The user has to place the objects on the shelf exactly like the model, but pay close attention because the model is mirrored!
Do you dare to try?
This should be the result. Did you get it right?
What does this activity work on?
In addition to sustained and selective attention, it also targets hemineglect, spatial relations and processing speed.
3. Picture Maze
What does it involve?
This activity to improve attention is designed exclusively for children. In the exercise, the child has to navigate a maze of pictures following alternating instructions.
What does this activity work on?
We will be working on selective and alternating attention.
Play through levels
Try an easy level first.
Easy level
In this example, the user must help César score the basket. To do so:
- The user must move from a red square to another until reaching the blue one.
- Switch to and go through the red circles until the one that is blue.
- Switch back to the squares until the end.
Here’s the result so you can see if you managed it.
And now, do you dare to try the advanced level?
Advanced level
In this case you have to help Raúl get in shape. To do so you must go from asparagus to a fish facing right, then asparagus again and so on until the end. A hint: you can move diagonally!
More difficult, right? Here we show you the solution so you can compare:
4. Space Conquest
What does it involve?
An activity for children in which we place ourselves in space to work on attention. In this case the children must move from planet to planet until they reach their space destination.
What does this activity work on?
It works on spatial relations, sustained attention, inhibition, planning and processing speed.
5. Sorting Bugs
What does it involve?
This activity consists of reorganizing the moving insects so that each type is on its corresponding side.
What does this activity work on?
It works on planning, selective attention, the sustained attention, hemineglect and processing speed.
Children’s version: Let the Games Begin!
Due to its success with adults a children’s version was also created called Let the Games Begin! in which children have to reorganize the soccer balls on one side and the basketballs on the other.
These activities are just some examples of the exercises to improve attention that are available in NeuronUP for neurorehabilitation professionals.
If you are a neurorehabilitation professional and want to try our games, worksheets, generators and simulators request our free trial.
In addition, we also have paper-based exercises to work on attention available to print; if you would like more information about these or other activities, click here.
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Cinco ejercicios de NeuronUP para trabajar la atención
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