Packet #66

This exercise trains overlapping cognitive skills including visual-spatial skills, sustained attention, and executive functioning by requiring your client to pay attention to three stimuli in order to make a quick conclusion about a relationship between two of the stimuli. This exercise touches upon key cognitive skills used when working, driving, and engaging in social activities.

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.

Location, distance, direction, and perspective are characteristics of spatial orientation that affect how we gather, process, and use visual information. This exercise trains your client’s logical, visual, and spatial reasoning skills since they have to mentally visualize different objects in a map from different points of view. Your client must analyze the shapes and the distances between the different elements of the scene that they are observing.

Visual and spatial information is abundant in everyday life in the forms of road signs, traffic lights, warning labels, and icons on a computer screen. Being able to distinguish objects from one another and locate them efficiently is essential for driving, maintaining personal safety, and functioning in the workplace. Your client will engage their hippocampus while activating the connections between the visual processing streams to correctly identify, remember, and place the objects they have seen.