alternating attention Archives

Adapting When Plans Change: Flexible Thinking Practice

April 30, 2026 by Kimi Mitchell.

Practice flexible thinking through rule-switching tasks, category shifts, and everyday problem-solving scenarios. Use this activity to help people with brain injury explore how to adapt when routines change and generate practical alternative ideas for real-life situations.

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Basic Alternating Attention: Strategy Exploration

December 20, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This task is meant to challenge the brain to alternate between two different visual concepts at the same time.

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Visual Alternating Attention Task

December 20, 2021 by Megan Berg.

The classic task that asks patients to alternate their attention between letters and numbers. In this case, the letters and numbers are color coded.

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Alternating Attention & Visual Scanning: Matching Numbers to Letters

December 20, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This task is designed as a task to tackle alternating attention and visual scanning. Patients are required to match a number to a letter in order to find the punchlines to jokes.

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