Embroidery

Game Description

A table with sixteen boxes appears and each box contains a letter of the alphabet. You must find the word hidden within the scramble of letters. You can choose seven-, eight- or nine-letter words. This is a deceptively challenging game, so clues are provided to help you find the correct answer.

Cognitive Function Exercised

Some exercises are more difficult than others as they simultaneously call upon several different skills. To succeed at this task, you will need to combine visual scanning and semantic memory. Many people process most verbal information using the left side of their brain. The areas of the brain at work are the occipital lobe for processing incoming visual information and the left temporal lobe for language, verbal memory and information retrieval.

Benefits to Daily Life

The skills called upon in this exercise are constantly used in our daily lives. For example, think about scanning for your name on a list or scanning a monitor for airline flight departures to see if your flight is on time. If you often do crossword puzzles, then you train your skills for word retrieval. It is about mentally searching through the verbal repertory stored in long-term memory.