Activity Description
A challenge awaits! Moving leaves will appear on your screen. If they are orange, drag them in the direction they are moving! If they are green, drag them in the direction the pointed tip is facing! An educational activity that exercises observation, attention, and visual-motor coordination. Children are asked to make choices based on the movement of the leaves on the screen, taking into account their color and direction. Through this activity, they practice working memory and decision-making skills while also improving their processing speed.
Targeted cognitive skills
- Working Memory: The ability to hold information in consciousness for adaptive use. This can include information from all sensory modalities, verbal and nonverbal ones. Working memory is conceptualized to include two separable components: maintenance of information and manipulation of information. Maintenance of information includes memory for verbal information, spatial information and other information (including emotional) across multiple sensory channels. Manipulation of information is the process of operating on information stored in working memory storage.
- Decision making: The cognitive process of choosing between two or more alternatives, ranging from the relatively clear cut (e.g., ordering a meal at a restaurant) to the complex (e.g., selecting a mate).
- Inhibition: The process of restraining one’s impulses or behavior, either consciously or unconsciously, due to factors such as lack of confidence, fear of consequences, or moral qualms.
- Spatial orientation: The ability to perceive and adjust one’s location in space in relation to objects in the external environment.
- Spatial representation: The process of defining and organizing spatial properties, such as the position, shape, and size of objects.
- Praxic skills: The ability to correctly make coordinate actions with a certain objective.
- Oculo-manual coordination and fine motoria: The ability to properly make coordinate actions using hands and fingers, based on sight.
