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B.R.A.I.N. is a memory strategy that makes use of an acronyn that is pretty easy for a brain injured person to remember - page 99, Brain Injury Survivor's Guide.
Improving memory skills requires that you Be attentive to the things going on around you, especially those you wish to remember.
Let's take a little test and just see how attentive you are. Below you will see a blue square that contains different colored words. You are to read from left to right. Say the "color" of the words outloud instead of reading the actual words.
The first time I did this (and I'm the one who did NOT have a brain injury) I found myself saying the wrong words on line 4. How did you do?
About this Test
This is a cognitve test about directed attention. It is normal to read RED as the word "red" even when the instructions tell us to say the word green, which is the correct color.
Being more attentive to the instructions and remembering what you are supposed to say requires that you stop your brain from reading the actual word and make it say the color of the word.
This test was first developed by John Ridley Stroop who wrote of this directed attention effect in his PhD thesis in 1935. It has been called the Stroop Test or the Stroop Task in his honor.
Research using this test shows that it is actually difficult for anyone to read every word and say the correct answer: color of the word instead of the actual word.
S-M-I-L-E
You just participated in a test, or task, that people without a brain injury find difficult. While we do not recommend that you take it over and over again, please feel free to come back as often as you like and try it again!
If you sit there at your computer trying time after time after time wihtout taking a break, you will quickly become mentally fatigued. That, of course, if not our goal. Take it today. Smile at your results. Then come back and take it again in a few days.
Remember, we are continually developing more and more fun things for you to do so you can help your brain act the way you want it to.
This morning, November 30, 2007, Beth was sharing with me one of her successes. She's been working out really hard for about four months now, trying to get her body back in shape.
She is having success, so she decided she needed to make her jeans tighter. So she said,
"I washed my jeans in the dryer to make them shrink, and it really worked!"
Of course, you know me...I said, "You what? Washed your jeans in the dryer?"
And she said...well, nevermind what she said. Just smile.
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