Attention boils down to two simple processes: being able to find and focus on those things that are important to the situation.

Try playing our Find the Difference game to work on developing new searching and focus strategies.

When you play the One of These Things is Not Like the Others game you can work on searching and sorting strategies in photos that might look like your life! Repetition will help you improve both speed and ease of filtering information.

This high level of thinking includes putting things in the right order and being able to shift from one task to another - each a critical process that helps us to successfully get through the day.

Playing games and puzzles, especially those that involve using strategies or logic, is a safe way to test those skills. Play our Scrambles game or Categories game to get targeted executive functioning workouts.

Processing speed is all about mental flexibility and agility. Improving your mental processing speed includes working on things that might make you shift thinking quickly and easily, adapt to changes, and reorganize your thoughts as new situations arise.

Try racing the clock in Memory Match and see if you can improve how quickly you shift your choices and your search strategies.

We now know that our brains, at any age, can reorganize themselves by forming new connections and rerouting function to other parts of the brain. We now also know that we can personally direct those changes through our actions and thoughts.

Find the areas in your life that you would like to improve and work on them! If you need to work on finding things, like your keys or your cell phone, play One of These Things is Not Like the Others and work out that area of your brain.

Take learning a step further: develop strategies to solve a class of problems and then practice those strategies. By doing this, you are also developing those parts of your brain that adapt to change so you can apply one set of learning to more than one situation.

Play Categories to practice putting things in broad categories of items.