Packet #47

In this exercise, your client must quickly scan a fish and compare to a target fish that they are required to identify. This exercise challenges your client’s visual attention, but also their visual working memory as they must remember what their target fish looks like while comparing the fish that is swimming across the screen. The strategies used in this activity translate to real-world situations such as quickly recognizing traffic signals and road signs.

This exercise primarily stimulates your client’s visual attention and concentration skills. Indeed, they will have to pinpoint relevant information, differences among stimuli, and visually scan for relevant details. Whenever a person is presented with a new set of symbols, such as when they are learning to navigate traffic signs for the first time, your client can apply the skills they used to successfully complete this activity.

Mental rotation is the main ability used in this exercise. This skill usually takes place in the right parietal region of the brain where perception occurs. Mental rotation comparison tasks can be broken down into five components: (1) create a mental representation of an object, (2) rotate the representation until a desired configuration is reached for comparison, (3) compare the rotated configuration , (4) decide if the representation and physical object are the same or not (5) report the decision and re perform these steps until correct solution is reached.

Location, distance, direction, and perspective are characteristics of spatial orientation that affect how we gather, process, and use visual information. This exercise trains your client’s logical, visual, and spatial reasoning skills since they have to mentally visualize different objects in a map from different points of view. Your client must analyze the shapes and the distances between the different elements of the scene that they are observing.