If you answered "sometimes"
to any of these questions, you will benefit from
BrainBuilder.com.
This cognitive training technology will help you absorb, store, understand, and evaluate information in a more efficient way. In addition, your attention will improve, and you'll be able to perform more tasks simultaneously - saving valuable time.
How is this possible? Because of the way your mind works, through
sequential processing.
Sequential processing takes place almost every time you attend to a new source of information. In fact, it happens right now while you are reading these lines, filtering the relevant information in order to make a decision about it.
The ability to receive, store, process, and use information is through a series of cognitive ordering procedures called
sequential processing. The two basic building blocks of learning and memory are auditory and visual sequential
processing. These building blocks are essential to listening, learning, reading and communication. They form the base
of the brain's higher order
executive functions. Essentially, every mental process we perform is dependent on these processing abilities.
Our capacity to process, learn new information and form memories is realized through structural plasticity. During learning,
reversible physiological changes in synaptic transmission take place in the brain. These temporary, reversible changes are
referred to as short-term memory, and the persistent changes as long-term memory. BrainBuilder training facilitates structural
plasticity, which improves our ability to sequentially process information, expands our learning capacity and improves our global brain function.
Better sequential processing enables us to retain, process and use more of what we take in through the visual and auditory channels and determines how quickly and clearly we can grasp concepts with several elements. To illustrate, here are two examples:
Digit span is an accurate representation of our ability to process information as it directly measures our auditory and visual short-term working memory. Digit span is the measure of how many sequential digits can be taken in, stored, processed, and recalled in the correct order. Digit span assessment is conducted visually and orally.
An individual's digit span typically increases one digit per year from birth to age seven. A typical five year old will have a digit span of five. A 7 year-old's digit span is normally 7 and usually will not increase more than 1 or 2 digits throughout adulthood. The generally accepted "normal" digit span for individuals over the age of 7 is considered to be in the range of 5 to 9 digits, which is represented as 7 +/- 2.
BrainBuilder is based on a new perspective regarding "normal" function. Any individual with an auditory or visual digit span under 7 digits is functioning with a cognitive deficit. Those with digits spans of 8, 10, or even 12 digits and higher are functioning at an advantage.
The BrainBuilder sequential processing exercises provide training that results in increased memory performance, measured by improvements in baseline digit spans.
BrainBuilder.com contains certain sequential processing concepts and methodologies originated and developed during over 30 years of clinical research by Robert J. Doman, Jr. and the National Association for Child Development.
