Attention spans often
lapse in today’s volatile, digital screen world.
Filmed wooden faces are designed to progressively build Short-Term Memory span length, strength, and capacity to develop listening and visual detail skills.
Once the automatic looping, wooden facial process begins, cubistic faces are repeated within daily practice sessions.
Automated Chunking Action: Each memory span has a beginning and an end. Like a bridge span, it can hold many units. A span can be Right-Brain or Left-Brain.
The chunking starts with a series of three items and progresses in difficulty level to ten or more items. Participants rehearse three unrelated items within the categories of letters, colors, numbers and words, reciting with the character models through scanning rotations [i].
How:
2. It registers in the brain
either in parts or its entirety
Many subconscious thoughts enter as whole patterns. The
complexity of the information interfaces with the length and strength
of your Short-Term memory span.
3. Information
enters Short-Term Memory, and settles according to your span length.
4. If it
doesn't process correctly, because of a short, overloaded span length, it is
forgotten.
5. If it continues to process, it
is synthesized with other background knowledge, and then classified by topic and enters Intermediate-Term Memory. Mental thoughts or concepts form.
6. Next, the
Left-Brain sorts and categorizes the information.
7. It then
requires ordering or visual or auditory sequencing to integrate.
8. The sorted information finally
enters Long-Term Memory. Understanding and conceptualization develop, based upon the early pattern selection, with
intuitive thought and feelings.
9. Reasoning
and logic commence, which are dependent on the above factors.
Unfortunately, weak attention spans coupled with wandering thoughts, hinder our daily lives, leaving us lost in a digital world.
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