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N-Back

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!

The Power of N-Back

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.

  1. Memory Maintenance: During the N-Back task, participants are presented with a sequence of stimuli, typically letters, numbers, or visual patterns. They are required to remember and recall items presented in the sequence after a specified number of steps back in the sequence. For example, in a 2-Back task, the user would need to recall the item presented two steps back in the sequence.
  2. Attention and Concentration: The N-Back task involves sustained attention and concentration. Participants must continuously monitor the presented items and compare them to their memory of items presented earlier in the sequence.
  3. Cognitive Flexibility: N-Back exercises may also enhance cognitive flexibility. Participants are required to update their working memory continuously and shift their attention to the current stimulus and those presented earlier in the sequence.

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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Ancient Writing

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Practice your visual attention skills with this fun nautical theme packet! Ancient Writing has a new fun twist as you compare and contrast the language of the sea. Did you know that each of these flags represents letters and codes for out on the ocean blue? Verbal and spatial memory is heavily engaged in this mini packet. 

These worksheets are great for helping your clients practice visual attention skills. These activities will be great for preschoolers and older! We hope your sea-loving individuals will find great pleasure in these flag-tastic activities.

Include inside: 12 worksheets and bridging questions.

If you like these worksheets, check out our other Ancient Writing worksheets here →

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Gulf Stream

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Dive into the depths of memory with our engaging fish-themed mini! Designed to challenge patients and therapists alike, this mini offers a fun and immersive way to test your ability to remember different types of fish. With vivid imagery and captivating exercises, you’ll feel like you’re exploring an aquarium as you work through each worksheet.

Adaptable and versatile, this mini can be used independently or combined with the digital version “Gulf Stream“. Whether you want to enhance your client’s working memory or sharpen their attention skills, these activities provide valuable cognitive stimulation in an enjoyable format.

Inside, you’ll find 8 dynamic worksheets that will transport you to an underwater world filled with colorful fish. Each activity offers a unique opportunity to flex your memory muscles, from identifying different species to recalling their characteristics. This mini will be great for kids as young as 3 and as old as 103! Download it today to have fun looking at fishes during your therapy groups or one-on-one sessions!

Challenge yourself or your clients with these engaging exercises, and watch your client’s memory skills flourish! Check out our other Gulf Stream activities today! → 

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Elephant Memory

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Work on your verbal memory with this engaging hybrid mini packet, designed to practice memorizing important information like shopping lists. Based on our popular digital exercise, “Elephant Memory,” this hybrid video mini packet provides a fun and practical way to enhance your ability to recall words and details that are essential for everyday life. This mini packet focuses on helping you practice memorizing items on a shopping list, a common but crucial task in daily life. You’ll be shown words from a shopping list, which you then need to identify among a series of words. The packet includes a hybrid video component that enhances the learning experience by asking the individual to work between a screen and a worksheet. This approach engages their attention and memory skills, providing an extra challenge.

The skill of memorizing important words comes up in shopping, taking medication, driving, studying, and much more. Help your clients work on this important daily life skill!

This mini packet is perfect for teens, adults, and seniors looking to exercise their memory.

Included inside: 7 pages of verbal memory worksheets, videos, and bridging questions.

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

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Math Sorting

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Math expert? Try your hand at sorting like fractions with each other! This assists clients with skills such as attention, working memory and metacognition. Children will feel more confident about utilizing math skills in daily life as well. This a great packet to use with children learning the basics of mathematics and fractions.

The digital exercises that inspired this worksheet

N-Back

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.

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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.

Language Activities for Dementia Patients

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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.

deductive reasoning activities

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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.  

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Mini-packet #57

Gulf Stream

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Our digital exercise Gulf Streams challenges your patient’s memory, visual attention skills, and process speed. This print version will challenge your patient’s short-term memory and visual attention skills. In this packet, your patient will have to learn the names of and what they look like of different fish to be successful with this packet. They will then have to count and study a tank full of fish. Finally, they will have to answer questions about the tank, the fish, and the environment. This packet has endless amounts of opportunities to play well beyond our packet.

 

This packet is great for all ages! Your senior patients will love the challenge, your pediatric patients will love the fish, and you will enjoy giving out this fun-filled packet.

Included: 7 worksheets, bridging questions, and an answer key.

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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.

Mini-packet #49

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!

Mini-packet #48

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 #79

Focused Attention

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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.

Exercises:

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.

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

Packet #78

Pattern Recognition

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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.

Exercises:

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.

Exercise your cognition — explore our full library of visual-spatial worksheets today! →

Packet #77

Verbal Memory

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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.

Exercises:

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.

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

Packet #76

Inhibition

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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.

Exercises:

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.

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

Packet #75

Receptive Language

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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.

Exercises:

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! →

Mini Packet #123

Catch the Ladybug

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Hit the field with this American Football-themed mini packet! These fun worksheets will help you work on attention, visual scanning, and processing speed skills. Inspired by our digital exercise, Catch the Ladybug, you’ll be asked to find a number of footballs on a page, with increasingly distracting backgrounds. This exercise targets attention and processing speed, requiring you to visually scan the page and circle the correct items as quickly as possible. These skills contribute to daily tasks like looking for items in a cluttered drawer, finding the right medication in the cabinet, driving, and reading.

This mini packet is great for children and individuals working on attention and visual scanning skills.

Included inside: 6 pages of attention worksheets and bridging questions.

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

Mini Packet #122

This Story is Full of Blanks!

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Celebrate the season with an autumnal mini packet! These fun worksheets will help you work on language skills such as verbal memory and lexical meaning. Inspired by our digital exercise, This Story is Full of Blanks, you’ll be asked to fill blanks in a paragraph, using a word bank. This exercise targets verbal memory, requiring you to utilize context clues, understand word meanings, and think strategically. These skills contribute to daily tasks like texting, having a conversation, writing a letter, or understanding a book or movie.

This mini packet is great for adolescents and adults.

Included inside: 6 pages of verbal memory worksheets and bridging questions.

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

Mini Packet #121

Basketball in NY

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Celebrate spooky season with this ghostly (but cute) mini packet! These fun worksheets will help you work on executive function skills such as planning and reasoning. Inspired by our digital exercise, Basketball in NY, you’ll be asked to mentally move ghosts in order to recreate an example image, in the fewest moves possible. This exercise targets executive functioning and spatial reasoning skills, requiring you to mentally move objects, utilize your working memory, and think strategically. These skills contribute to daily tasks like grocery shopping, planning an event, organizing items in your home, or solving a difficult problem.

This mini packet is great for adolescents and adults.

Included inside: 10 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! → 

Mini Packet #120

Entangled Figures

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Get ready for the autumn harvest with this mini packet! These fun worksheets will help you work on visual-spatial and executive function skills. Inspired by our digital exercise, Entangled Figures, you’ll be asked to look at a complex image made up of several simpler images, and determine which simple images make up the tangled figure. This exercise targets visual-spatial and executive function skills, requiring you to visually scan for memorable shapes, hold them in your working memory, mentally rotate them, and problem-solve as you mentally detangle the images. You also need to utilize inhibition skills and not act too hastily – taking your time figuring out the problem will likely lead to more accurate answers. These skills contribute to daily tasks like navigating a new environment, planning appointments, planning a grocery shopping trip, and navigating using adaptive equipment such as a wheelchair.

This mini packet is great for all ages!

Included inside: 10 pages of executive function worksheets, and bridging questions.

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

Mini-packet #119

Under Pressure

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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! → 

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