{"id":75451,"date":"2025-01-07T23:58:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T04:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=75451"},"modified":"2025-01-07T23:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T04:58:46","slug":"very-simple-ways-to-train-working-memory-and-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/very-simple-ways-to-train-working-memory-and-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Very simple ways to train working memory and attention"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We all have different ways of understanding and processing information and, beyond our intellectual capacity, people develop executive skills from childhood that allow us to adapt to the environment. These are the skills that come into play when we learn.<\/p>\n

In fact, learning styles and executive functions are intrinsically related, as both influence how people process, organize, and apply information. Learning styles describe individual preferences when acquiring knowledge (visual, auditory, etc.), while executive functions, such as working memory or cognitive flexibility, are mental processes that facilitate effective learning.<\/p>\n

Understanding how people learn is essential to teaching effectively \u2013 and learning for the long term.<\/p>\n

Development of executive functions<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Although executive functions are considered to be\u00a0working memory, stimulus inhibition, planning, problem solving, and cognitive flexibility , there is one ability that is closely related to all of them: <\/a>attention<\/a>\u00a0span\u00a0.<\/p>\n

Whether a student is more good at learning visually or one who is better at reviewing written text, their learning effectiveness will depend on their ability to organize this information. And whether they are able to apply it later in exams, tests or exercises in everyday life will depend on executive functions such as planning and working memory or inhibitory control to concentrate on what is relevant.<\/p>\n

The balanced development of these skills can enhance any learning style. A good development of these executive functions allows us to solve problems and make decisions, and to adapt to different contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among them, we can consider attention to be the essential prior process for working memory to function, which is the most important function for learning.<\/span><\/p>\n

How do we train working memory and attention?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Training working memory (and also attention) does not involve, as we often think, trying to memorize and retain over time a series of names or a certain explanation or definition.<\/span><\/p>\n

Working memory processes the information that reaches us so that we can store it. More than repetition, the strategies that allow us to improve it are:<\/span><\/p>\n