Hey there, fellow user of the mind! Are you ready for an exciting journey into the world of N-Back brain exercises? Get ready to color your collection of working memory cognitive activities as we proudly present… our most colorful N-Back worksheets!
Do you know that N-back is often used to measure and improve working memory? In fact, it is widely used in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. If that isn’t cool enough, check out below how it helps an individual’s working memory.
It’s essential to remember that the effectiveness of working memory training on real-world cognitive tasks is a topic of ongoing research. Results can vary from person to person. We recommended N-back worksheets and digital tasks as part of a broader cognitive training regimen. Additionally, we believe that all can use these worksheets! Young or Old, all users can learn the skills required to be successful at n-back.
Include inside: 3 activities and bridging questions.
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Can you remember a shopping list? What about the locations of different items on that list? Sharpen your verbal memory and executive function skills with this word and spatial memorization task, based on the exercise Words Where Are You? This exercise focuses on executive functioning skills such as working memory, attention, and task initiation!
Ready for a word challenge? Choose and place words in as few moves as possible into the night sky with this exercise. This may seem like a regular crossword puzzle, but when done right, it will challenge a myriad of cognitive skills such as planning, decision making, and deductive reasoning.
Earth Day meets cognitive training in this mini. In this mini, participants will test their semantic knowledge and visual attention by sorting various waste items into color-coordinated bins. As the number of bins increases, so does the specificity of the items that can and should be placed in each one. This attention-based worksheet packet reinforces the importance of recycling and challenges cognitive skills related to categorization and organization.
About Secret Files
Inspired by our popular digital exercise, Secret Files, this engaging recycling activity packet combines fun and education of proper recycling ways for individuals of all ages. Sorting items based on their category is an essential skill we use every day. Working on these activities might be a great addition to your therapy worksheet collection.
Earth Day Uses
Perfect for celebrating Earth Day or as a standalone educational activity, this recycling packet is suitable for a wide range of ages and abilities. Preschoolers and seniors alike will enjoy these recycling worksheets’ vibrant colors and interactive nature.
You’ll find 5 engaging recycling activities and thought-provoking bridging questions in this packet. Dive into the world of recycling education and environmental awareness with this captivating worksheet packet today! Check out our other sorting activities today! →
Points of View’s purpose is to help individuals improve their visual-spatial abilities. In the digital version, the user is comparing directly on the screen. We’ve added an additional level of difficulty to this packet by making it a hybrid. The user no longer compares points of view directly on a screen, but they have to compare the worksheet to the screen as if they were holding a map in real life. This hybrid exercise will be a great way to practice using a map by orienting using visual-spatial skills to find the user’s unique orientation.
This worksheet is great to use with middle schoolers, older individuals, and non-English speakers or non-verbal individuals, or anyone who would like to practice using a map.
If you found this exercise to be fun, try the real-life orientation Packet #32. If you would like to practice other points of view exercise, click here →
Included inside: 6 worksheets, 24 activities, 3 videos, and bridging questions.
Working memory allows us to store information for short bits of time in order to use it to complete a task. In this task, you must recall whether you have seen an item n-steps previously. This exercise will help improve your client’s ability to remember visual information, which we need to do when we drive and view road signs or as we walk and explore a city that we are not familiar with.
Recognizing emotions in others can be difficult for clients with psychological disorders and developmental disabilities. This worksheet based on the exercise I Remember You provides exercises that tap your client’s ability to recognize and distinguish different emotions in others’ faces. By practicing the exercises in this worksheet, your clients may also build more confidence in social situations. Work on social cognition skills with your client today!
Include inside: 1 worksheet and bridging question.
Are you looking for language activities for dementia patients? Language is a complex cognitive skill. It involves executive functioning, memory, and visual and auditory processing skills. Sometimes, people with dementia struggle with one or more aspects of language, such as word retrieval. That is why we developed this packet. We wanted to create a packet to help improve language skills that are often inhibited in individuals with dementia.
In this workbook, we have provided 4 exercises that target different cognitive skills involved in language skills. We have a verbal memory exercise, Words, Where are you? We have a visual attention exercise, Private Eye. Additionally, we have a word-categorizing activity, Secret Files, and lastly, a language-inferring activity, Embroidery.
This packet will be great to be used for seniors, anyone looking for printable activities for dementia patients, or anyone looking for language-based activities. If you love this packet, we highly recommend you try our digital program. Each one of these exercises is even better on the digital program.
Included inside: 13 worksheets and bridging questions.
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Deductive reasoning is the main focus of this packet. Deductive reasoning is used during any planning and decision-making cognitive functions. In this packet, your client will perform varying exercises. They will have to move basketballs mentally. Decipher what a symbol could symbolically mean in a mathematical equation. Complete a variety of mathematical equations ranging from easy to complex. And lastly, move rings on a stick to build various towers. These exercises will challenge their abilities to inhibit unwanted responses, shift between tasks, perform mental manipulations, and make choices.
Your students will enjoy the mental challenges needed to complete these tasks. This packet is great for clients with attention deficit disorder, brain injury, stroke, or experiencing cognitive difficulties related to psychosis.
included inside: 20 worksheets and bridging questions.
This is one of our first Memory bundle available. This memory bundle is a great bundle for an general all over memory exercise program. Memory is one of the foundation skills of cognitive functions, if we are experiencing challenges with our memory it can be hard to engage with our families and friends. By exercising your memory, you may see an improvement of your ability to recall information or remember where you placed things.
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Bundles are a great way to buy more and save more! If you were to buy all of these packets separately, you would pay more than $75. Because we’ve bundled it, you’re getting an instant saving of over 20%! Our bundles are designed to help you buy workbooks for your patients.
What’s included inside: Instant PDF downloads of 6 packets or 99 unique worksheets.
Challenge your patient’s ability to visually break apart words and deductively place them on the chart. Based on our digital exercise, Writing in the Stars, this packet is a great way to challenge your patient’s deductive spatial reasoning skills! Clients must determine which word could fit in which space on the star. At first, some of the charts come prefilled. Eventually, there will not be any assistance, and your patient has to choose words from the word bank. The progression of the packet increases slightly. The goal is that by the end of the exercise, your patient will feel more confident using their deductive skills. We love this exercise in our digital tool. If your patients enjoy this packet, they will love playing this activity digitally.
This packet is great for students ages 12 and older. Individuals looking for fun brain deductive spatial reasoning activities will enjoy the challenges within these pages. Additionally, we hope your patients will enjoy using this packet in a session with you or as part of their home exercises.
Included inside: 4 worksheets and bridging questions.
Challenge your patient’s visual scanning and semantic memory in this mini packet! Your client must scan the letter grid to determine what word is hidden within the grid. These worksheets are printable versions of our digital exercise, Embroidery. As your client progresses, the hints will decrease, and the difficulty of the words will increase. This entire packet is around the theme of objects found within the ocean.
This packet will be great for individuals looking to challenge their ability to use their visual scanning ability and draw information and conclude what words are presented. Use this within your post-stroke support groups, inside of your classrooms of middle schoolers, or as an earth day activity to do with your patients.
Include inside: 10 worksheets, answer keys, and bridging questions.
Ready to be an editor? Miss MadLibs? Read different passages and fill in the blanks with this fun verbal reasoning activity. This exercise focuses on executive functioning skills such as working memory, attention, and metacognition. This is perfect for anyone looking to hone their verbal processing skills as well as working memory abilities!
Ready for a memory challenge? Engage your client’s attention and working memory skills using this mini hybrid packet. Find Your Way takes on a new face (or should we say bill) with this cognitive exercise packet. This activity primarily exercises executive functioning skills such as your client’s Attention Skills.
Get ready to work on attention skills for the new school year with this back-to-school packet! These focused attention worksheets will help you practice working memory, visual scanning, and spatial awareness skills. Based on our digital exercises, the skills practiced in these worksheets can benefit daily life. Focused attention is critical for most daily activities! Tasks like personal hygiene, reading, writing, cooking, driving, and socializing all require focused attention.
An American in Paris: Memorize travel itineraries by memorizing landmarks and grid locations.
Two-Timing: Complete this visual and auditory task simultaneously.
Ready, Steady, Count: Memorize numbers and operators to solve math questions.
Secret Files: Swiftly categorize words before they vanish.
This packet is great for adolescents and adults.
What’s inside: 32 focused attention worksheets, videos, and bridging questions.
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Join in the summer fun with this backyard barbecue themed packet! These visual-spatial worksheets will help you practice pattern recognition, encouraging skills like attention, visual scanning, mental rotation, memory, and more. Based on our digital exercises, the skills practiced in these worksheets can benefit daily life. Pattern recognition is critical for grocery shopping, driving, recognizing an item in a cluttered drawer, and proofreading a text.
Ancient Writing: Find differences between two sets of images.
Find Your Way: Memorize then recreate a path between stones.
Sleight of Hands: Determine if images of hands are showing left or right hands.
Private Eye: Locate an image within a grid of similar images.
This packet is great for all ages!
What’s inside: 30 pattern recognition worksheets and bridging questions.
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Practice verbal memory with this sunny Summer-themed packet! These verbal memory worksheets contain a variety of exercises to work on vocabulary recall and verbal working memory. Based on our digital exercises, the skills practiced in these worksheets can benefit daily life. Verbal memory is crucial for skills like reading, following signs or GPS while driving, and social interactions, such as remembering peoples’ names and information about them.
Elephant Memory: Memorize words, and then find them within lists from memory.
This Story is Full of Blanks!: Complete quotes by selecting words from a word bank.
Root It Out: Users recall nouns derived from a given root.
Restaurant: Memorize guest names and seating arrangement, and give each guest the correct order.
This packet is great for adolescents and adults.
What’s inside: 36 verbal memory worksheets and bridging questions.
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Hop in and practice executive function skills in this waterway-themed packet! This packet focuses on inhibition skills, with exercises that require you to consider options and plan ahead before completing an action. Based on our digital exercises, this packet is full of inhibition worksheets that exercise skills that can benefit daily life. Inhibition skills are critical for daily tasks like communicating appropriately, picking out items when grocery shopping, and driving.
Towers of Hanoi: Build a tower of rings with minimal moves while adhering to rules
Hurray for Change: Connect numbers and letters or words in order as quickly as possible
Gulf Stream: Memorize a fish and identify when it crosses the screen, with increasing speed levels
Writing in the Stars: Connect words in the right configuration to form a star
This packet is great for adolescents and adults.
What’s inside: 30 inhibition worksheets and bridging questions.
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Leap into Springtime with this refreshing packet! These receptive language worksheets include exercises to work on reading, comprehension, and verbal memory. Based on our digital exercises, this packet will help you work on language skills, as well as working memory and attention. These skills are critical for daily tasks like engaging in conversation, participating in workplace meetings, reading, and cooking from a recipe.
Embroidery: Find the hidden word in a grid of letters
You’ve Got Voicemail: Memorize key details from a message and answer questions about them.
Split Words: Put together word fragments fitting a theme.
Seize the Keywords: Read a passage and recall the verbs in the correct order.
This packet is great for adolescents and adults.
What’s inside: 36 receptive language worksheets and bridging questions.
Exercise your cognition — explore our full library of language worksheets today! →
Up for a little celebration? Throughout Fall 2025, we’re celebrating 25 years since HappyNeuron was founded! Work on attention and processing speed in this mini packet, with a celebratory theme! Inspired by our digital exercise, Under Pressure, you’ll be asked to pay attention to stimuli on the screen, and determine whether they are higher or lower than preceding stimuli. This exercise targets processing speed, spatial awareness, and attention skills. These skills are vital for daily tasks like quickly finding an item in a full closet, and paying attention to obstacles and signs while driving.
This mini packet is great for adolescents and adults working on processing speed skills.
Included inside: 3 pages of attention/processing speed worksheets, videos, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other attention worksheets today! →
With this Toxic Productivity Checklist, you can get to know your client’s relationship with productivity, and use it to inform your treatment plan! We offer a variety of session resources for clinicians to use in order to get to know their clients, take notes, provide supplemental activities, and more.
Perfect for fostering growth, mindfulness, and organization, our session resources printables are ideal for use in therapy sessions and as take-home activities. Download and print as needed to support your clients’ journey toward well-being and personal development.
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Work on visual working memory with this adventurous camping-themed mini packet! Inspired by our digital exercise, Chunking, you’ll be asked to recall images of camping items within a grid, and then place them correctly on a blank grid. This exercise targets visual working memory, which is necessary for real-life tasks like cooking, grocery shopping, driving, and much more. It also targets visual-spatial skills which are necessary for navigating the world, remembering where you placed objects, and more!
This mini packet is great for kids and adolescents, and anyone working on visual and working memory skills.
Included inside: 12 pages of visual working memory worksheets, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
Practice memorizing visual sequences with this ice cream-themed hybrid mini packet. Inspired by our digital exercise, Find Your Way, you’ll need to remember a path between different colors of ice cream scoops on the screen, and then recall them in order to construct a delicious ice cream cone in the worksheet packet. Working between screen and paper provides an extra challenge for exercising your memory!
The cognitive skills used in this exercise are used for daily tasks such as creating a to do list in a logical order, or remembering the steps to a recipe.
Included inside: 6 pages of visual memory worksheets, videos, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
Practice visual working memory and recalling sequences with this mini packet. Inspired by our digital exercise, N-Back, you’ll need to remember a specific sequence of colors in the correct order, recalling longer sequences as the levels get more difficult.
The cognitive abilities used in this exercise are important for skills such as remembering items on a to-do list or following a recipe.
Included inside: 12 pages of visual working memory worksheets and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
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