Inhibition Game for Adults: Categories Against the Clock

Today we are launching the inhibition game Categories Against Time to work on inhibition with adults.

What does this activity involve?

As its name suggests, this activity involves selecting the items that belong to the indicated category as quickly as possible, while avoiding those that don’t.

Below is an example of the activity Categories Against Time:

What does this activity work on?

This game works on inhibition, processing speed, and sustained attention.

As the levels go up, the time available to decide gets shorter, so the user has to:

• think fast (processing speed),
• control the automatic impulse to tap every word (inhibition),
• and keep their attention at all times so they don’t miss any word (sustained attention).

Play by levels

This inhibition game for adults is divided into phases, phase 1 being the easiest and phase 9 the hardest.

The user moves up or down a level automatically according to their correct answers and mistakes. The professional can also choose the level manually.

Customizing the activity

Custom levels can also be created to fit the user’s specific needs.

Parameters

In this inhibition game, we can set some activity parameters such as:

• the time stimuli stay on screen (in seconds),
• number of stimuli,
• number of target stimuli,
• maximum number of errors,
• the total duration (in seconds),
• and the number of different items.

General settings

You can choose other general settings such as:

• The number of exercises,
• whether or not to show a visible timer for the activity,
• whether or not to include an inactivity alert, and
• editing the instructions.

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Juego de inhibición para adultos: Categorías a contrarreloj