Packet #61

In this exercise, you will challenge your auditory processing skills by distinguishing the tone, duration, and amplitude of different classical instruments. Your client must select the instrument they wish to listen to, and then they will be presented different sounds from that instrument that they must distinguish. This exercise will help your client be able to disntinguish different sounds in their environment – such as telling the difference between a firetruck siren versus a police car siren, or the change in the tone of voice in a speaker.

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

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

The ability to effectively manipulate objects mentally allows us to make decisions as to what an object is, where to place an object in space so that it does not fall, and helps us create a plan for how to navigate our environment. This task aims to train your client’s visual mental imagery skills, specifically their mental rotation abilities. Indeed, your client must visualize elements in a pattern, identify the surface patterns of 3-D objects, create a mental image of them, visualize their rotations, and make comparisons in order to decide whether the objects are the same or different.