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Cognitive Science-based Printable Worksheets for Adults & Kids
Welcome to our collection of free worksheets explicitly designed for cognitive stimulation. Whether you’re looking to expand your knowledge, improve your skills, or enjoy the process of learning, our worksheets offer a diverse range of topics and subjects. Discover how our cognition-based resources can help you on your lifelong journey.

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Dive deep into an ocean of fun and challenge your visual attention skills with this sea creature-themed mini cognitive exercise packet. Based on our popular digital exercise, “Displaced Images,” this packet engages users in spotting differences among various sea creatures, requiring focused concentration and careful observation to determine which images don’t match. This mini packet is designed to work on visual attention—a crucial skill for daily life—while providing an engaging and stimulating experience for anyone working on their cognitive skills.
This packet is designed to support individuals who may struggle with visual attention due to a learning disability, aging, stroke, or brain injury. It provides a gentle but effective way to practice attentional skills in a targeted format that is accessible and engaging.
The fun underwater theme makes this mini packet a great option for adolescents and adults!
Included inside: 12 pages of visual attention worksheets, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other attention worksheets today! →
Immerse yourself in a celestial world of wordplay with our starry cognitive exercise packet full of executive function activities! Inspired by our popular digital exercise, Writing in the Stars, this engaging packet is designed to help you fit words together in a way that challenges and refines your executive function skills.
By working through these carefully crafted executive function worksheets, your clients will practice critical skills such as planning and inhibition. Planning requires you to think ahead and organize your thoughts strategically, while inhibition helps you control impulses and focus on the task at hand. Both skills are essential for effective problem-solving and decision-making.
Explore the galaxy of words and enhance your cognitive abilities with this starry exercise packet. Dive into the challenge and watch as your planning and inhibition skills soar to new heights, all while enjoying the satisfaction of fitting words together in stellar fashion.
Included inside: 7 pages of executive function activities, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini, make sure to check out our other executive function worksheets today! →
Are you a geography enthusiast? Challenge yourself with our exciting verbal and visual memory worksheets that test your knowledge of flags from around the world! This unique twist on our popular visual and verbal memory game, “I Remember You,” offers a fun and educational way to exercise your cognition.
This mini packet is crafted to help you work on your capacity to recall words and images associated with each other – a fundamental skill for remembering names and faces. By engaging with colorful and distinct national flags, you’ll train your brain to form stronger associations between visual cues and verbal information.
Perfect for both kids and adults, this exercise provides an enjoyable yet stimulating way to exercise your memory skills. Whether your client is a student putting their memory and geography skills to the test, or an adult looking to strengthen memory abilities after an injury, this packet offers a rewarding mental workout.
Embark on a journey of worldly knowledge and cognitive enhancement. Strengthen your recall abilities and expand your geographical knowledge, all while having fun with this innovative memory game!
Included inside: 14 pages of verbal and visual memory worksheets, and bridging questions
If you like this mini, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
Embark on a vibrant journey around the globe and immerse yourself in the beauty of flower festivals with these captivating exercises! Inspired by our digital adventure exercise “Around the World in 80 Trips,” this innovative hybrid mini packet offers a delightful fusion of entertainment and cognitive enhancement.
Transport yourself to enchanting locales with these planning skills worksheets as you engage in stimulating activities designed to challenge and sharpen your cognitive functions. From the intricate executive functions required to navigate each trip, to the spatial memory needed to recall each vibrant image, these exercises promise a stimulating mental workout. As you traverse through these floral wonders, you’ll also embark on a quest to fortify your verbal memory, as you work to retain the names of each festival destination in the correct order.
This hybrid mini is perfect for both adolescents and adults to cultivate cognitive skills with a fun and engaging trip around the world!
Included inside: 6 activities, 3 videos, and bridging questions
If you like this mini, make sure to check out our other executive function worksheets today! →
Immerse yourself in the joyous symphony of laughter with our engaging auditory memory activity: “Laugh it up”! Delve into the fascinating world of social cognition as you listen to recordings of people laughing and learn their faces. This interactive exercise offers a delightful opportunity to practice auditory memory skills and challenge your ability to comprehend and learn laughter.
Drawing inspiration from the natural melodies of our digital exercise, Bird Songs, this laughter-filled packet infuses a playful twist into auditory memory and attention skills training. With six unique activities featuring over 27 distinct laughs, each laughter-filled moment presents a new challenge and an opportunity to enhance cognitive abilities.
This packet will be great for kids aged 6 and older. We think any adult who needs a pick-me-up will also enjoy this activity. Try this with your seniors in group settings and see their faces light up with the funny laughter. Laughter is contagious, and this mini might just bring a smile to their face. If not, maybe they need some good ole funny youtube videos.
Included inside: 6 activities, 3 videos, and bridging questions
If you like this mini, make sure to check out our other auditory memory worksheets today! →
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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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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.
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!
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.
Go for an adventure on the high seas with this pirate treasure-themed packet! These spatial memory worksheets invite you to memorize fun images and treasure maps, and recall their locations. Based on our digital exercises, this packet will help you work on visual-spatial skills, working memory, and attention. The spatial memory skills that this packet encourages are needed for daily tasks such as locating items in your home, reading a GPS while driving, and recalling where important apps are on your phone.
Exercises:
Private Eye: Look for a specific image in a grid of similar images.
Turn Around and Around: Mentally rotate objects to see which one differs from the rest.
Objects, Where Are You?: Remember images and their location in a grid, then place them correctly from memory.
An American in Paris: Memorize names of places, images associated with them, and their locations on a map.
This packet is great for all ages.
What’s inside: 37 spatial memory worksheets and bridging questions.
Exercise your cognition — explore our full library of visual-spatial worksheets today! →
Is your client working on paying attention for long periods of time? We have the worksheet packet for you! Based on our digital exercises, this packet offers an engaging way to work on attention skills, and other cognitive tasks like visual scanning and verbal memory. This packet will keep clients of all ages engaged with a fun “crawling critters” bug theme. The sustained attention skills that this packet focuses on are needed for a huge variety of daily tasks, such as studying, participating in a conversation, and driving.
Exercises:
Catch the Ladybug: Catch ladybugs as fast as you can, while navigating distractions.
This Story is Full of Blanks: Use context clues to fill in the blank words in a text.
Pay Attention: Recall a series of letters or numbers in original or reverse order.
Private Eye: Locate an image in a grid of similar images.
This packet is great for kids, and all ages looking to exercise cognitive skills.
What’s inside: 27 sustained attention skills worksheets and bridging questions.
Exercise your cognition — explore our full library of attention worksheets today! →
Working on visual-spatial skills and mental imagery with your clients? Give these spatial skills worksheets a whirl! They’ll provide engaging cognitive tasks that ask you to mentally rotate objects and recall images or words in specific locations. Based on our digital exercises, this packet will encourage a well-rounded visual-spatial skillset in a fun way! These skills are used for numerous daily tasks such as driving, going for a walk, cleaning and organizing. Help your clients exercise their visual-spatial skills and bring them into daily life!
This packet offers an engaging way to practice visual-spatial skills, and can be completed independently or with a provider based on the needs of the individual. It’s ideal for people looking to practice spatial skills needed for navigating the world around them. Whether you’re a clinician or caregiver, this packet will offer ways to both have fun and exercise these skills!
Exercises:
N-Back: Recall colors in a specific frequency and order.
Words, Where Are You?: Use visual, verbal, and spatial memory to recall the placement of words on a grid.
Turn Around and Around: Mentally rotate objects to find which one is different from the others.
Find Your Way!: Recall a path through various objects in the correct order.
This packet is great for adolescents, adults, and seniors looking to exercise cognitive skills.
What is inside: 44 spatial skills worksheets and bridging questions.
Exercise your cognition — explore our full library of visual-spatial worksheets today! →
Working on social skills with your clients? These social cognition worksheets provide tasks that draw from daily interactions. Based on our digital exercises, this packet offers a multifaceted approach that supports the skills of attention and visual & verbal memory needed in social situations.
This packet offers a fun approach to working out your social cognition skills. It’s ideal for individuals looking to practice social skills and other cognitive skills that support social skills, such as memory and attention. Whether you’re a clinician or caregiver, this packet will offer ways to both entertain and exercise skills!
Exercises:
This Story is Full of Blanks: Complete quotes from various literary works by selecting words from a word bank.
Displaced Images: Compare two image series, identifying differing images between them.
Secret Files: Classify words into categories.
I Remember You!: Learn and recall names and faces, facing increasing complexity.
This packet is great for adolescents, as well as adults looking to exercise cognitive skills.
What is inside: 26 social cognition worksheets and bridging questions.
Exercise your cognition — explore our full library of social cognition worksheets today! →
Step into a sensory adventure and work on your cognitive abilities! This engaging packet is designed to challenge your executive function and deductive reasoning skills through a variety of sensory-based tasks. Drawing inspiration from our digital exercises, this packet offers a multi-sensory approach that keeps users engaged while supporting essential cognitive skills.
With puzzles that involve sight, sound, and spatial reasoning, this packet provides a well-rounded brain workout. It’s perfect for those looking to boost problem-solving, mental flexibility, and decision-making skills. Whether you’re a clinician, caregiver, or individual looking to work on cognition, this sensory-themed cognitive packet has something for everyone.
Exercises:
Sleight of Hands: Identify if an image shows a left or right hand, requiring mental rotation and spatial reasoning.
Gulf Stream: Search for one memorized image hidden among visually distracting images, strengthening visual scanning, sustained attention, and memory.
Dance with Fireflies: Identify the path of a moving shape, honing tracking skills, attention, and pattern recognition.
Sound Check: Listen to musical notes and identify differences between them, promoting auditory discrimination, sustained attention, and auditory processing.
This packet is great for adolescents, as well as adults looking to exercise cognitive skills.
What is inside: 24 deductive reasoning worksheets, 3 videos, and bridging questions.
Exercise your cognition — explore our full library of executive function worksheets today! →
Practice verbal memory, language comprehension, and inhibitory control with these hybrid verbal memory worksheets with a video component! Inspired by our digital exercise, Secret Files, you’ll need to sort words into categories, and figure out what the categories are as the levels get more difficult.
The cognitive skills used in this exercise are important for skills such as organizing and strategizing. These skills are used when creating a to-do list, sorting items in your home, and holding information in your brain such as the people you’re inviting to a party.
Included inside: 6 pages of verbal memory worksheets, 3 videos, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other language worksheets today! →
Help your client exercise executive functions like planning and inhibitory control with this colorful exercise. Jump between paints on a palette organizing them in alphabetical and numerical order. You’ll need to work as quickly as possible while alternating between different types of stimuli as the exercises get more difficult.
Inspired by our digital exercise, Hurray For Change, this mini packet requires you to sort information while utilizing inhibition to avoid making mistakes. These skills are needed for tasks like writing, following instructions, and driving.
Included inside: 9 pages of executive function worksheets and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other executive function worksheets today! →
Exercise working memory and divided attention skills with this fun mini packet! In these visual working memory worksheets, you’ll memorize a book cover, do a distracting exercise, and then recreate the book cover using the options provided.
Inspired by our digital exercise, Heraldry, this mini packet requires you to memorize visual information while distracting you with other information to really test your memory. The distraction provides an extra layer of difficulty and makes you work your memory even more!
Memorizing visual information is a skill that is necessary for daily life. We utilize this skill when following directions on a GPS, identifying medications, and following signs in a building or subway system. This exercise is designed to work on visual working memory and dividing attention between two tasks. Challenge your brain’s capacity to handle tasks that demand working memory and divided attention!
Included inside: 12 pages of visual working memory worksheets, 3 videos, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →
Explore ancient language with this fun attention and visual memory mini packet! These visual attention worksheets use characters from the Scandinavian runic alphabet to help clients exercise their attention and working memory skills.
Inspired by our digital exercise, Ancient Writing, this mini packet asks you to make note of differences in two sets of characters using an alphabet that may be unfamiliar to the user. More characters are added as the exercises progress, requiring the user to visually scan a wider range of information before making note of the differences between the two sets.
Comparing visual information is something that we do in daily life. These skills come into play when comparing two pill bottles to remember which one to take, and when using the various controls on the dashboard of a car. This exercise is designed to work on visual working memory and visual attention skills. Challenge your brain’s capacity to handle tasks that demand working memory and attention!
Included inside: 9 pages of visual attention worksheets and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other attention worksheets today! →
Step into the bustling atmosphere of an Italian restaurant and challenge your memory skills with these engaging verbal working memory worksheets. With a unique hybrid format, this packet blends fun scenarios with memory-building tasks to help clients strengthen their verbal and working memory skills.
Inspired by our popular digital exercise, “Restaurant,” this mini packet asks you to memorize people’s names and their food order at an Italian eatery. As the exercises progress, the challenges increase, requiring you to juggle more information and put your working memory to the test.
Imagine yourself as a maître d’ or waiter tasked with remembering names and seating arrangements in a busy Italian restaurant. This exercise is designed to work on verbal memory, sequential recall, and the ability to manage increasingly complex information. Challenge your brain’s capacity to handle real-world situations that demand working memory and attention!
Included inside: 6 pages of verbal working memory worksheets, videos, and bridging questions.
If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other memory worksheets today! →