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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.

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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.

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Writing in the Stars

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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.

This packet is perfect for adults, as well as teens who are looking to push their cognitive skills.

Included inside: 7 pages of executive function activities, and bridging questions.

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Around the World in 80 Trips

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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

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Restaurant

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Have you ever had that awkward moment where you forget someone’s name? Work on your patient’s verbal working memory with this coffee shop adaptation of Restaurant. Our digital exercise, Restaurant, aims to help individuals improve their recall of orders and names. As they progress through this packet, the coffee orders will get harder, and your patient may start to feel like they are working at a real-life coffee shop. We hope this packet can inspire your patient to complete digital exercises like this to improve their verbal working memory. If it doesn’t, we hope they have fun exploring different styles of coffee drinks from around the world.

These worksheets will be great for middle schoolers, individuals with Aphasia, Seniors, and anyone who wants to improve their verbal working memory.

Include inside: 9 activities, 18 worksheets, and bridging questions.

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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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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!

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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Spatial Memory

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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.

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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.

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.

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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!

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.

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Find Your Way

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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.

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N-Back

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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.

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Secret Files

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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.

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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.

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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! → 

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