CR-Psychiatry Program: Verbal Learning
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This module includes perfect exercises to improve verbal memory. It also helps build a strategy (place words into categories for example) to effectively remember a list of words.
Elephant Memory
The task
The saying that elephants never forget is a true fact. Will the patient be able to build up memory over a few seconds or minutes and hold on to it? In this task, the user is presented with a grid of words to memorize. He will then be asked to recognize these same words from a longer list that also contains distraction or decoy words.
What it trains
In this exercise, the patient will practice his episodic memory through verbal material. Indeed, he has to store and retrieve several words. It also helps him build a strategy (place words into categories for example) to effectively remember a list of words without trying to learn it by heart as it takes too much mental effort.
Parameters
10 levels have been specially selected to ensure an easy start and grant a regular progression. The parameters involved are the number of words to remember (from 6 to 20), the variety of themes and the memorization time.
Restaurant
The task
Waiters in restaurants have the amazing ability to memorize all individual orders and to serve them all to the right people. In this exercise, the patient has to memorize the dishes associated with the names of different people. He must then recall the dishes and memorize who the dishes are associated with. The place of some people can change at the recall stage.
What it trains
This task trains the subject's verbal and visual memory. Indeed, he has to both memorize the orders of each person and remember the position of each of them around the table, knowing that this position may change. It therefore also trains his ability to mentally rotate the scene he has kept in his mind.
Parameters
10 levels have been specially selected to ensure an easy start and grant a regular progression. The parameters involved are the number of guests (from 2 to 4), the number of dishes (from 2 to 4), the number of fake menu orders and the interference task.
Words, Where are You?
The task
This exercise consists of memorizing the location of several words on a grid, and then recalling them in the same spot in a grid as the user has seen them previously.
What it trains
Verbal memory is an essential skill for remembering conversations, doing crossword puzzles or keeping track of written material of any sort such as shopping lists or key elements of a novel. Further, we rely upon spatial memory when we try to recall the location of shops on a street, products in a grocery store or a friend's house in a neighborhood. This exercise trains the patient's visual and spatial memory and perception as it is about creating associations between two types of information, a word and its location. He needs to build a strategy to make a comprehensive association that would make their memorization easier. Then, he needs to be attentive and stay focused on the visual and spatial information.
Parameters
10 levels have been specially selected to ensure an easy start and grant a regular progression. The parameters involved are the number of words (from 3 to 8), the way they are displayed (simultaneously or not) and the size of the grid.
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