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We present a new exercise to promote attention and impulse control with adults that we are sure you will like very much: Waiter in Action! What does it consist of? The patients, who take on the role of waiters, have to be attentive to the restaurant’s orders. They must serve each customer the ordered dish, …
Introducing a new visual gnosis activity for adults! Sort the Money is an exercise with high ecological value for adults to become familiar with and identify the coins and banknotes of their country’s (or others!) currency. What does it consist of? Sort the Money consists of classifying coins and banknotes by their value. In this …
New activity to teach kids how to manage money This week we present a children’s activity with high ecological value. We are talking about Sort Your Piggy Bank, an exercise for children to become familiar with and identify the coins and bills of their country (of other countries too!). What does it consist of? Children have …
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is characterized by overt symptoms of inattention and/or impulsivity-hyperactivity. It is estimated that in each classroom there is, on average, one child with ADHD. In a previous blog post, we already talked about its symptoms, diagnosis and treatment and today, on the occasion of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Awareness Month and …
This week we’re not just releasing one new activity, but two! Both for the kiddos! Search and you will find! and Make up a story with images.
Read on to learn how to make the most out of the new activities:
Attention is a complex cognitive function that has been researched from several scientific fields—from neuropsychology to cognitive neurosciencevia psychometrics and even electrophysiology. This has resulted in the development of multiple models that attempt to explain this ability from different perspectives. Cognitive neuroscience, for example, attempts to identify those areas of the brain most involved in attentional processes such as the prefrontal cortex and sensory cortex, and subcortical structures such as the optic thalamus, the corpus striatum (the caudatenucleus and the lentiform nucleus), the septal nuclei, the nucleus basalis of Meynert, and the cerebellum.1
We live in a time in which we are swamped with stimuli that make it difficult for us to maintain attention on a task. It is becoming more common to watch a movie while reading the news on the computer and texting on the phone at the same time. We are now used to perform several tasks simultaneously, but do we really pay enough attention to what we are doing? How can we tell when we are dealing with attention problems? Can attention be trained?
