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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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Mini-packet #114

Hurray For Change

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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! →

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Heraldry

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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! →

Mini-packet #112

Ancient Writing

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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! →

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Restaurant

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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! →

Mini-packet #110

Root It Out

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Take a walk through the natural world while strengthening your language skills with this engaging mini cognitive exercise packet. Rooted in our popular digital exercise, Root It Out, this packet challenges you to identify and recall nature-related words using clues like first letters, scrambled spellings, and word fragments. It’s a fun, brain-boosting journey that we hope will leave you feeling more confident in your verbal recall abilities.

Verbal recall is a critical cognitive ability that affects everyday tasks like remembering names, recalling specific terms, or describing objects. This mini packet offers targeted practice designed to strengthen these language-based skills. These exercises support word-finding, vocabulary development, and the ability to make connections between partial word fragments and complete words—skills that support communication and memory in daily life.

This mini packet can help support users in regaining confidence in their language abilities after an injury or stroke, and practice key communication skills like naming objects, describing items, and recalling vocabulary. It may also be helpful to individuals who have learning disabilities, as they work on spelling, recall, and word recognition. These exercises may support language processing and confidence in academic settings.

Included inside: 6 pages of language worksheets, and bridging questions.

If you like this mini packet, make sure to check out our other language worksheets today! →

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2. Real-World Applications: Many of our worksheets are designed with real-world applications in mind, ensuring that the knowledge and skills you acquire can be immediately put to use in your daily life.

3. New & Free Content: Best of all, our worksheets are completely free. We believe that cognition improving activities should be accessible to everyone, and our commitment to providing high-quality resources reflects this belief.

4. Lastly, all of our worksheets are based on our digital tool, HappyNeuron Pro. This tool has been positively impacting brains since 2000. If you enjoy these worksheets, try the exercise in their digital format →

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Social Cognition

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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.

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Language

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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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Our yearly subscription is designed to help decrease clinicians’ time looking for high-quality worksheets by instantly delivering them to the clinician’s emails and accounts. We provide hassle-free and scientifically-based cognitive worksheet packets on the 4th Monday of every month. These packets are an excellent resource to be used with your patients. In addition to time, the yearly subscription saves you money.

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Disclosure: When you are purchasing this yearly subscription, it is like purchasing a subscription to a magazine. You do not receive access to the last worksheets. No worksheet will be added to your account. You will receive worksheets for the next 12 months. Please explore our bundle options if you would like to buy our previous packets for a discount. We have yearly and subject-based bundles available for purchase. See them here →

Packet #40

Executive Function

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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.

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General Memory

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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.

Mini-packet #51

Writing in the Stars

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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.

Mini-packet #50

Words, Where Are You?

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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!

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Embroidery

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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.

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Story Full of Blanks

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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!

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Find Your Way

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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.

Packet #73

Attention Skills

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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.

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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! →

Packet #72

Visual-Spatial Skills

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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!

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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! →

Packet #71

Social Cognition

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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!

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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! →

Packet #70

Deductive Reasoning

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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.

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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! →

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Expressive Language

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Unearth new cognitive skills with this earth science-themed cognitive exercise packet! Designed to engage and challenge, this packet incorporates a variety of fun exercises that target expressive language, verbal recall, and memory. Featuring exciting tasks such as assembling jumbled word fragments, finding hidden words, and decoding symbols into meaningful text, this packet offers a dynamic way to practice key cognitive skills while learning about the fascinating world of earth science.

Exercises:

Split Words – Assemble jumbled word fragments to create meaningful earth science terms, practicing problem-solving and expressive language.

Embroidery – Search for hidden earth science-related words in a grid of letters, sharpening attention to detail and verbal recall.

Seize the Keywords – Memorize and recall specific words from a text about earth science topics, strengthening verbal working memory and sequencing skills.

Decipher – Decode symbols to uncover earth science facts and terms, challenging users to connect visual and verbal information.

This packet is great for adolescents, as well as adults looking to exercise foundational cognitive skills after an injury or stroke.

What is inside: 32 expressive language worksheets and bridging questions.

Exercise your cognition — explore our full library of language worksheets today! →