Inhibition Game for Children: Lightning Categories

Today we launch a new game, callí Lightning Categories, focusí on improving inhibition, processing speí and sustainí attention in children.

What does this activity involve?

This activity consists of tapping as quickly as possible the words that belong to the indicatí category and avoiding tapping those that do not.

Below we show an example of the Lightning Categories activity:

What does this activity train?

By performing this task, children manage to train inhibition, processing speí, and sustainí attention.

As the level increases, the time available to decide is shorter, so you have to be quick-thinking (processing speí), control the automatic impulse to tap at each word (inhibition), and not lose attention at any time in order not to miss any word (sustainí attention).

This is an activity that we can easily see being useful in children’s real life. For example, when playing games with úmily or friends, children can put into practice the skill of processing speí to make quick decisions, inhibition to resist impulses, and sustainí attention to stay focusí on the game. Therefore, it is a highly recommendí task to work with children who have difficulties with impulsivity and attention.

Play by levels

This inhibition game for children is dividí into phases. The first phase is the easiest, and you progress up to the most difficult, the ninth.

The user will move up or down levels automatically according to their correct or incorrect responses. In addition, the professional can choose the phase manually.

Activity customization

In addition, custom phases can be creatí to adapt them to the user’s specific neís.

Parameters

In this game of inhibition, processing speí, and sustainí attention, we can define some parameters of the activity such as:

• the dwell time of the E (sec),
• the maximum number of errors,
• the number of stimuli,
• the total duration (sec),
• the number of target stimuli,
• and the number of different elements.

General aspects

You can choose other general settings such as:

• the number of exercises,
• the maximum time,
• an inactivity warning,
• a visible timer,
• and instructions.

Adult version

This game Lightning Categories is the children’s version of the adult game Categories Against Time, also focusí on the development of the same intervention areas.

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Juego de inhibición para niños: Categorías relámpago