Understanding Processing
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Cognitive Enhancement
Executive Function: The Brain’s Manager
Executive Function acts as a personal manager. It monitors our highest level of awareness and control. It is needed to help us mentally talk ourselves through problems and to monitor and guide our decisions. It facilitates our ability to direct and sustain attention, allowing us to inhibit reactions and restrain responses. It helps us to plan long-term projects, manage and complete homework, and strategize.
Working & Long-Term Memory: What The Brain Retains
Working & Long-Term Memory are vital skills for students and working adults. Working Memory is crucial for all learning. It is a system for temporarily storing and managing information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension. Long-Term Memory is the ability to recall past information and fluently retrieve it later in the process of thinking.
Attention Skills: Keep the Brain Focused & On Task
Strong Attention Skills allow us to pay attention over long periods and help us block out distractions. When attention skills are trained and strengthened, studying and paying attention in class, on the field, or within your career, become much easier, and performance is enhanced.
Auditory Processing: What The Brain Hears
How we function is highly dependent on our listening skills. The Auditory Processing System works closely with the parts of the brain that regulate attention, energy, emotions, language, balance, thinking, and learning. Weakness in this system can impact speech, reading, communication, organization, learning, attention, energy, and overall well-being.
Processing Speed: How Quickly The Brain Thinks
Processing Speed is the speed at which the brain processes information. A high processing speed helps students read faster, improves awareness of one's surroundings, and helps enhance motor skills used in driving and sports.
Visual Processing: What The Brain Sees
Visual Processing is the ability to think about and understand visual information. It helps us to create mental pictures faster and more vividly. Strong visual processing skills help us interpret and solve math word problems, read maps, utilize day planners, and improve reading comprehension skills.
Logic & Reasoning: How The Brain Thinks Critically
Logic & Reasoning skills allow us to reason, plan, and think. These skills help us to organize, see patterns and relationships, solve
problems, and strategize. Logic & reasoning skills are crucial for higher-level comprehension, test-taking, and executive function