What are gnosias in cognitive stimulation?

Gnosias are cognitive functions that enable recognition of previously learned information (objects, people, places, sounds, tastes) through the senses, essential for identifying familiar faces, objects by touch, or voices.

What is the Incomplete Images worksheet for visual gnosias?

Incomplete Images trains visual gnosias by asking users to identify objects from partial views, reinforcing recognition from key visual fragments and contextual cues.

How does the Identify Colors worksheet train gnosias?

Identify Colors requires selecting a requested color from a set, often run as a paper group activity using color cards to practice perceptual discrimination and visual recognition.

How does the Recognizing Facial Parts exercise address facial recognition?

Recognizing Facial Parts asks patients to match facial features within montages, working facial recognition and the body schema by reinforcing mental representation of facial components and spatial relationships.

What is the Identical Objects worksheet and its difficulty levels?

Identical Objects asks users to point out identical items despite rotations; it offers easy to advanced levels, with higher levels requiring attention to small distinguishing details.

What does the In Front or Behind worksheet train in visual gnosias?

In Front or Behind trains spatial aspects of visual gnosias by having users determine whether figures are in front, behind, or between other objects, strengthening positional awareness.

Cognitive Stimulation Cards to Work on Gnosis

In this article, we will propose 5 NeuronUP cognitive stimulation worksheets to work on gnosias. These activities are focused on addressing difficulties related to this cognitive function.

Introduction

Gnosias are the brain’s ability to recognize previously learned information such as objects, people, or places through our senses. In other words, thanks to gnosias we can recognize a family member’s voice, identify an object by touch, or recognize a food by its taste. Can you imagine seeing a family member’s face and not being able to recognize it? Or what it would mean not to identify an everyday object like a glass when touching it with your eyes closed?

The cognitive stimulation worksheets to work on gnosias from NeuronUP are aimed at addressing difficulties related to this cognitive function.

Cognitive stimulation worksheets to work on gnosias:

1. Incomplete Images

What does it involve?

We cannot always see an object entirely; however, if we see significant parts of an object we should be able to recognize what it is. If our patient has difficulty achieving this, the following cognitive stimulation worksheet to work on visual gnosias will be useful.

Cognitive stimulation worksheet for gnosias - Activity Incomplete Images — NeuronUP worksheets *Incomplete Images*.

2. Identify colors

What does it involve?

In this cognitive stimulation worksheet to work on gnosias, users have to identify the requested color among a set of colors.

This is a NeuronUP paper activity that the therapist can carry out in a group by following these steps:

First, place the color cards on a board or display board.
Next, the patients should sit down avoiding distracting environmental stimuli.
In turns, the patients will get up and remove all the cards that are the same color. In this case they will remove all the purple cards.

Cognitive stimulation worksheet for gnosias - Activity Identify colors — NeuronUP exercise *Identify colors*.

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3. Recognizing Facial Parts

What does it involve?

For this reason, the patient has to try to recognize the facial features in a montage. For example, the following image is made up of three faces, and the patient must indicate which of the three options corresponds to each one.

Cognitive stimulation worksheets for gnosias - Activity Recognizing Facial Parts — NeuronUP worksheet *Recognizing Facial Parts*.

What does this activity work on?

This activity focuses on working the body schema, that is, the ability to recognize and mentally represent the body as a whole and its various parts, the development of the movements we can make with each part, and the orientation of the body in space.

4. Identical objects

What does it involve?

In this cognitive stimulation worksheet to work on gnosias the patient, guided by the therapist, has to point out the objects that are identical. In addition, they must take into account that the options are rotated.

Play by levels

The therapist can also choose from an easy level to a more advanced one depending on the needs of each user:

Easy level

Worksheet to work on gnosias - Identical objects — Worksheet *Identical objects* – easy level.

Advanced level

In this level small details are very important!

Not so easy anymore, right?

5. In front or behind?

What does it involve?

Finally, this cognitive stimulation worksheet to work on gnosias aims to determine the position (in front/behind/in the middle) of different figures in relation to others. Indeed, this activity works on visual gnosias.