Scientific Hierarchy of Thinking Model

 Scientific Hierarchy of Thinking Model [1]

Seeking an Information Processing
Intervention Solution
through Deep Learning Cognitive Practice

By Jan Kuyper Erland

 

My earlier blog articles described my innovative, rapid learning process beginning as a parent wishing to give my own family members a learning edge for high cognitive, thought levels.

 The initial training was based on my master’s manuscript, “Following Oral Directions with Peers and Puppets” [2] that applied Bandura’s Social Learning Theory [3] and role models. Findings showed no significant difference between either peers or puppets as role models with junior high students with challenging conditions.

 Current brain research corroborates theses early psychological cognition brain functions/domain findings through fMRI brain scans. [4]

 Later, this initial research premise was conveyed by book chapter articles regarding 5-Dimensional layered thinking describing the unique application process, applying the Hierarchy of Thinking model.

 This scientific model update becomes thought-provoking research to any reader, as experimental psychology may apply multiple scientific models each uniquely arranged with the cognitive scientists’ viewpoint on brain activation functions and how they are applied.

 Rarely is an independent, experimental cognitive researcher also a school teacher, educational content developer, and dramatic artist, creating a scalable model with five generations of research and development pointing to a viable solution.

Research papers/projects often show little fidelity with actual treatments, as few researchers have been trained in applied learning procedures and resolve immediate student learning concerns similarly to experienced classroom teachers. Subsequently, unique methods of unusually innovative treatments are not routinely applied. [5]

 This investigator applied years of an unfamiliar treatment in multiple environments, with various age group samples, within several geographical areas, with four longitudinal data reports over an extended generational time span. Many 3^rd party reviewers and independent testing companies were involved, and the longitudinal experimental trials were with the same intact treatment groupings, randomly applied with control groups, ultimately received an international award. [6]

 The Hierarchy of Thinking model was rigorously adhered to within actual practice by focusing on initial chunking rote memorization for patterned details, leading upwards to integrating multiple relationships of sequencing procedural information, then directed to Abstract Problem Solving – Critical thought. [7]

 This generational outcome indicated strong procedural sequencing mental ability for individuals, ages 9-99 desiring increased academic and career skill enhancement.

 

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[1] Erland, J. K. (c 1989) Hierarchy of Thinking. Published in 1999 JALT research monograph.

[2] Erland, J. K. (1980, October) “Vicarious Modeling Using Peers and Puppets with Learning Disabled Adolescents” © 1980. The University of Kansas: Lawrence, Kansas.

[3] Bandura, A, (1971), Social learning theory, Stanford University: General Learning Corporation.

[4] Turner, J. A. M.D. (December 24, 2021). Re-conceptualizing domains in neuroscience, hopes, and utopias aside. Nature Neuroscience.

[5] Schueller. S.M. (November 2020) Scaling Evidence-Based Treatments Through Digital Mental Health. American Psychologist. Journal of the American Psychological Association. 75.  #8. 1093-1104.

[6] Erland, J. K. (2008) Downloadable, unpublished report. Five Generations 27-years of Iterative Brain Based Accelerated Learning Experimentation Demonstrate Cognitive Skills\ Improvement Enhances Academic and Career Goals. (https://memspan.com/jalt.html). Pages 19-20 Landmark study: International Alliance for Learning (IAL, June 2001).

[7] Erland, J; K. (1999). Brain-Based Accelerated Learning and Cognitive Skills Training Using Interactive Media Expedites High Academic Achievement. Journal of Accelerated Learning and Teaching. 24. (3&4) Monograph. ERIC: 437 650. ©1999.

A Content Timing Process Realized

For Cognitive Interventions

 

Completing a Cognitive Restructuring Method

This article continues a series regarding the importance of procedural learning through cognitive training, and how an incubated, research program became functionally realized.

I previously discussed how images and impressions overcome our day with multitudes of imprints that cloud our auditory processing capability, necessary for adept procedural learning.

Subsequently, in our new current world view, we remain locked into personal cell phone images, unable to remain focused on critically needed listening intentions for any length of time.

Although listening and visual processing must be in sync, unfortunately, visual images input rule. Considering these multiple embedded visual distractions, this technical system requires further scientific data study for future valued marketing determinations.

In my former article on “Impressionable Speaking Images”, I commented that I, personally, carefully evaluated written and spoken directive steps, both internally and externally, though various data analysis methods.

Personally, experiencing enhanced cognitive visual timing feedback, this process would assist the overall goal of syncing visual perception and auditory sequencing capability with the participants. If a viewer sees repeated spatial faces and voices in a timing motion, there are usually positive cognitive outcomes. [1]

It became obvious that I had to replicate myself through carefully filmed, timed, lessons, comprised of over 600 interlocking visual/auditory segments, so others could be taught with the same, identical system. Specified age groups would eventually encompass test- trial niches.

This restructuring cognitive system was never designed originally, as a prototype product. It was, somewhat, a method to improve my own family’s cognitive processing abilities, with a more procedural mind infusion intent. And, subsequently, this objective became realized some time ago.

Remarkably, it now continues realized, indirectly expanded exponentially, through all the activated participants with their own endeavors. Hundreds, even thousands, have experienced better lives found in other unique ways through different avenues.

It has been repeatedly applied through the retro-synthesis threads, the intensive training each training participants received, by following sequential procedures, coding, quickly. Consequently, their procedural management expertise continues to build, almost on a daily basis, helping thousands of individuals, through each of their own individual career objectives; many of whom, operate on very high national levels.

It is not often that an art/science accelerative method becomes incubated for decades, waiting for not only the essential technology to become available, but also attain the right studio and photographer filming requirements that was essential for creating dramatic image/sound looping action.[2]

Yet, the artistic/scientific under-pinnings became a nagging, daunting quest, as the filming should be completed with me as the primary engineer, script designer. And, how, when, and who would be involved with the required pre-production staging, film it, and then conduct the ongoing post-production sound-visual editing requirements?

As key decision maker, I eventually found and trained the essential photographer, personally recommended, and eagerly available to moonlight his day job. He was tightly bookended with a demanding work-family schedule that interfaced with my own long, search time- table. Like all learners, the photographer and I had to operate at our own pace, work with overly limited, available time slots, creating multiple, ongoing, insightful revisions, to realize any sort of valued outcome.

 Background Review: Creating a Class with the Necessary Cognition Sequencing Lessons.

With a wide variety of teaching, in different states and school districts, I found my creative abilities non-applicable with many school teaching models. Thereby, it became pertinent to create a viable research and development establishment. The entire family was the basis, and stood to benefit with this decision.

Step 1: Test the family. Assessing my own family members proved to be an interesting quest, particularly, as to how their cognitive scores correlated with their schools’ cognitive and achievement findings. One family member had been assessed by the school psychologist, and qualified for gifted services; a second member was close to qualifying for gifted services.

Their profile ranges intrigued me, including my own.  Even-scored, flat profiles can be readily apparent, as are low-deficit, average, and low average summaries; but they did not exist here. In our case, estimations inter-played with average, high-average, to gifted profiles between family members.

It was “the obvious cognitive, black, holes” that I started to wonder about. Subsequently, those cognitive calculations served as both a baseline and barometer, for my continuing assessment profiles and instructional lesson’ designing.

An unusual, alternative, learning intervention method was emerging quite by happenstance. The process demanded strong data analytic solutions, as it could not really be called a specific program, as the improvement lessons had to be created from scratch. I had used spelling words, word usage, as a school learning disability teacher, occasionally with simple hand puppets, even with junior high ages.

 Subsequently, this new, home-schooling class consisted of junior high, high school, and college-age students. Without question, multiple-vocal ventriloquist puppets now commanded the home stage. A most unusual, entrepreneurial story unfolded that could eventually transform animation and virtual-augmented reality formats in later decades.

The Instructional Model:

To begin at the starting point, an instructor must determine who is available to teach, at what instructional level and what will the material consist of, for a specific objective. Some professorial friends had instigated and pressed this endeavor, as they insisted that I help their high school-age son, as a certified learning disability teacher. I now found myself teaching in a home studio with my own kids, with the additional requested student. 

These Hollywood, vocal-action puppets that had been part of a family touring, comic, puppet show in the 1970s; were now happily instructing learners of all ages, with cognitive instruction.

Imaginatively creative, and scientifically well- versed in clinical assessment and methodology, I planned sequencing items on the spot spontaneously-continuously, monitoring it internally-mentally/externally, primed with data analysis.

Animated content can be created rapidly, whereas live multi-segmented, cubistic images demand dramatic, time evolvement.  Pieced timed, looping segments, cannot materialize onto meaningful instructional substance, unless retro-synthesis [3] analysis is applied through an ongoing serial encoding-decoding linking process, called concatenation. 

This constant serial linking instills recursive- patterned, insightful, monitored, awareness of the ongoing process.

Technically, it was soon becoming rigorous cognitive skills testing and training for many people in a wide range of abilities, utilized as research subjects at multiple test sites, in different geographical locales.

Five professors analyzed the raw scores conducted by multiple clinicians who individually administered the cognitive raw scores. [4] These five universities partnered with national testing companies that verified the posttest academic results. Landmark articles were written and published in a juried journal. [5]

 Soon twelve East coast inner city school districts, partnered with two rural Midwestern districts, and three universities, were part of a large grant project. Luckily, the proposal did not materialize, as there were embedded severe technological limitations for rapid implementation success.

 The rest of the story is history, as these technological restrictions have now been addressed.

 

 

 

 

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[1] Y. Chen, D.J. Norton, R. McBain, J. Gold, J.A. Frazier, J.T. Coyle,

Enhanced local processing of dynamic visual information in autism: Evidence from speed discrimination, Neuropsychologia, Volume 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 733-739, ISSN 0028-3932,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.01.007.

(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393212000218)

Abstract: An important issue for understanding visual perception in autism concerns whether individuals with this neurodevelopmental disorder possess an advantage in processing local visual information, and if so, what is the nature of this advantage. Perception of movement speed is a visual process that relies on computation of local spatiotemporal signals but requires the comparison of information from more than a single spatial location or temporal point. This study examined speed discrimination in adolescents (ages 13–18 years old) with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Compared to healthy controls (n=17), individuals with ASD (n=19) showed similarly precise speed discrimination when two comparison motion stimuli (random dot patterns) were presented closely in time (0.5s). With a longer temporal interval (3s) between the motion stimuli, individuals with ASD outperformed healthy controls on speed discrimination. On a second task—global motion perception—in which individuals were asked to detect coherent motion, individuals with ASD exhibited slightly degraded performance levels. The observed temporally selective enhancement in speed discrimination indicates that a local processing advantage in autism develops over a longer temporal range and is not limited to the spatial domain. These results suggest a dynamic perceptual mechanism for understanding, and therapeutically addressing, atypical visual processing in this group. 

Keywords: Visual system; Motion; Local processing; Speed discrimination; Neurodevelopment

[2] @article{Hardman2011UnderstandingCI,   title={Understanding creative intuition}  author={Teresa Hardman}, 
  journal={de arte}, year={2011}, volume={46},  pages={22 - 32}

 3 Segler, M., Preuss, M. & Waller, M. (March 2018) Planning chemical syntheses with deep neural networks and symbolic AI. Nature 555, 604–610 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25978  also, Gateway technology AI applications.

 [4] Erland, J. K. (©2008). Downloadable, unpublished report. Five Generations, 27-years of iterative Brain-Based Accelerative Learning Experimentation Demonstrate Cognitive Skill Improvement Enhances Academic and Career Goals. (https://memspan/jalt).

5 Erland, J. K. (Fall 2000). Brain-Based Longitudinal Study Reveals Subsequent High Academic Achievement Gain for Low-Achieving, Low Cognitive Skills, Fourth Grade Students. Journal of Accelerated Learning and Teaching. 25, (3&4) pp.5-48. ERIC ED # 453-553. & # CS 510 558. https://Books.Google.com/jankuypererland page 41.and

Erland J. K. (c 1989), Hierarchy of Thinking. Mem-ExSpan, Inc.

             Impressionable, Speaking Images, Unique Insights, Offer Solutions

Jan Kuyper Erland

How Images and Sound Patterns Can Affect Us

Images can either speak through metaphors, or a facial image can produce speaking sounds, easily imitated through generated digitals.  Yet, imitations rarely match the original, either real or digital, because of the depth of energy each produces and reveals. The Dutch artist, Holbein, in 1522, applied rhetorical, images that appeared to speak through symbolism that now rein in art museum settings today.[1]  Images can be profound, speak through symbolism, or reality, creating many varied emotional reactions and interpretations.

In our digital age, we race daily, pulled drawn through hundreds of fast visual clips, not thinking about its abstract symbolism.  But it is there, affecting us one way or another, as it is the core of advertising and film images constantly penetrating us. [2] Films utilize fast, two second action snippets. Our minds race to keep up, and absorb, but overwhelmed, we look at a collage of movement. These combined facial and sound images penetrate our minds more than we believe. [3]

Subsequently, we may find ourselves immersed, in a dulled, tranced state. Subsequently, that is why we like outdoor activities with dimensional images and sounds like parades with balloons and marching bands, or football games’ image and play actions. We are deeply mired on a “look, see, respond-react” holistic mode, rather than a “sequential, systematic, procedural, step-by-step style” applying multi-modal sense inter-play.

Let’s consider how images and sounds can offer beneficial tools to direct us into a productive, procedural, mindset to meet new technological demands.

In my recent blog publication update,[4] I verified importance of sequential details as they interplay [5] with working memory for creating accurate procedures. And, why step by step visual and listening details must not only integrate, [6] but bridge for accurate procedures found in all academics, as linguistics, coding, reading, mathematics. Unfortunately, tools are often too quickly determined, then applied without careful applications, or with ongoing evaluations to determine potential decay.

 

We All Can Take Steps Forward for Positive Change, at Any Age

No one wants to admit, let alone reveal, their cognitive shortcomings, or if they even have them.  Most of us are not aware that we have our own, unique cognitive profile, of strengths and weaknesses. Although it can vary somewhat routinely, our profile does have solid indicating parameters, as to how efficiently we processing incoming information.

As a result, our unique profiles remain hidden, to a person’s great disadvantage. In the “Sequenced Details” blog, I stressed that we all need to be aware of our cognitive abilities, at least roughly, early on. However, some specific cognitive skill assessments may require specific measures, given by qualified professionals.

Skip, or overlook, the inquiry process, and we take chances.

Unaware of this essential procedural learning investment, you could spend years entering and being in the wrong career-choice, dissatisfied -- demanding change, but not knowing exactly what change you want and need.

As a learning disability teacher, clinical researcher-specialist, and parent of three, I had a continuous learning quest for a solution to make learning procedures easier not only for my students, but my own family members. Inquiringly, being heavily involved in rigorous university diagnostic and evaluative instruction at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, I assessed not only my own family, but also, myself. The great Swiss cognitive psychologist, Jean Piaget, routinely used his own family members as research subjects.

Soon, many others followed suit, at a variety of age, ability, and demographic levels, wanting to take part in a low- cost research project. All sought change, and hopefully would reach higher potential levels. The objective was to find an easier way to rapidly learn, retain, and manage complex procedural information, and function at higher potential levels than they thought were even possible.

Although my work has been published repeatedly by a juried journal [7], evaluated by several independent research teams, with data followed longitudinally,[8] research designs may be questioned as designed with a biased framework, creating false positives. [9] Only longitudinal data trends, both experimental and criterion, will confirm any research findings. [10]

Early, Golden Age, Wooden Identity Images, Become Star Role Models

Multi-Dimensional puppetry face and sound bites can offer the answer with daily, a-few minutes- system, because they are calming yet stimulating. Through invigorating, focused engagement, you can find a valuable tool for continued personal, cognitive growth.

You then ask, “what if these characters remind me of scary ones I have seen earlier, or listened to, on horror podcasts?”

A well-documented, data-based, learning system has accepted the cubic facial, puppetry image action through solid stage, film, and technical-data, recorded history.

Fleeting, animated, or cloth images are another possibility to attract your attention. You might respond, “If instant, fast-moving, quick, images are the popular norm, both in reality and online, why would I want to engage in a system with different type of images that I am not used to seeing?” “And, would this unique alternating, interlinked visual and sound action, actually create credible cognitive change? “

A Tried-and-True Tool: Multi-Dimensional, Cubic, Sound Image Action

Our overall acceptance of any facial and sound copy is determined by the length of time they have been initially created, and then monitored by continual, documented, confirmations. You might like to enhance your procedural capability rapidly, with reliable visual and sound images.

Data Engineering, and Data Science Coupled with Choral Speaking, Linguistic Performance

It is unusual for a program developer, with a variety of highly developed talents, who engaged and trained a novice film-maker from scratch, who then created a viable working memory, solution by applying unique images and sounds.

Remarkably, I designed visual-auditory perceptual-coding exercises that were difficult for me, tailored to improve not only my own language shortcomings,[11] but prove a viable training entity for others.

To my great surprise, I would ultimately become the most valuable research subject of all. I found I could internally monitor my own cognitive weaknesses through daily observations, as I instructed with the comic puppets with rotating facial and frequency changes. And, I improved greatly. much to my happiness and relief.

Subsequently, I monitored the experimental working model progress, both internally and externally. [12] Internalized, mental processing relies on serial activity through Deep Learning Transfer. Experimental and criterion referenced measurements were critically applied and carefully monitored, with a variety of populations and data groups. As to be expected, outcomes (although most having positive effect sizes) varied according to individual circumstances. This ongoing development of pre-tuning and fine-tuning in metrics algorithms, of image and sound frequency models, created mental transfer that was continually measured over time. [13]

Only you can determine whether you want to maintain charge of your life, expand, try new growth vistas, or remain the same. And, take your chances of giving that control to someone else to decide your future.  

A necessary image and sound working memory solution, The Bridge to Achievement,[14] ™ focuses on multiple word-diction, sound patterning, procedural learning, practice. Its’ training application is close to independent, team trials for 5^th generation digital, film data monitoring.

Each of us has hidden potential that can expand our horizons, provided that you have the desire and willingness to explore and find it. Next blog: How and why it took two decades of a photographer search and continuing experimental film trials, to complete the necessary film work as applied research, for online personal upskill learning.

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[1] Dobrzynski, J. H. (November 2021). “Portraits peopled with symbols”. Wall Street Journal, Arts in Review.  A15.

[2] Trafton, A. (November 15, 2021) “A key brain region responds to faces similarly in infants and adults.” MIT Center Brains, Minds, and Machines news release. Cambridge, MA

[3] H. L. Kosakowski, Cohen, M. A., Takahashi, A., Keil, B., Kanwisher, N., and Saxe, R., (2021). “Selective responses to faces, scenes, and bodies in the ventral visual pathway of infants”, Current Biology, vol. 32, 1.

[4] Erland. J. K. (November 11, 2021).” Sequenced Details: Working Memory Expansion”. Jan’s Brainy Insight. Blogger.com.

[5] Rumelhart, D. E. McClelland, J. L. (1986). Parallel distributed processing: Explorations in the micro structure of cognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

[6] McClelland, J. L. Emergence in Cognitive Science. (September 2010). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-8765.2010.01116. Topics in Cognitive Science 2 (2010) 751–770 Copyright  2010 Cognitive Science Society, Inc. All rights reserved. ISSN: 1756-8757 print / 1756-8765 online DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2010.01116.x

 [7] Erland, J. K. (©2008). Downloadable, unpublished report. Five Generations, 27-years of iterative Brain-Based Accelerative Learning Experimentation Demonstrate Cognitive Skill Improvement Enhances Academic and Career Goals. (https://memspan/jalt).

[8] Erland, J. K. (Fall 2000). Brain-Based Longitudinal Study Reveals Subsequent High Academic Achievement Gain for Low-Achieving, Low Cognitive Skills, Fourth Grade Students. Journal of Accelerated Learning and Teaching. 25, (3&4) pp.5-48. ERIC ED # 453-553. & # CS 510 558. https://Books.Google.com/jankuypererland page 41.

[9] Ioannidis, John P.A. (August 2005). Essay: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. PLoS Medicine. 2, 8, e124.

[10] Erland, J. K. (2014). https://memexspan.com/outcomes. And,  https://memexspan.com/en/case-studies/initial-cohort Mem-ExSpan, Inc. Lawrence, KS.

[11] Catts, H.W., & Kamhi, A. G. (1986). The Linguistic Basis of Reading Disorders/ Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools. 17 (4), 329. https://doi.org/10.1044/0161-1461.1704.329

[12] Erland, J. K. (Spring 1999). Brain-Based Learning Longitudinal Study Reveals Sold Academic Achievement Maintenance with Accelerated Learning Practice. Journal of Accelerated Learning and Teaching. 24, (1&2). pp. 1-33. (This journal closed in 2008) ERIC ED #436-962.

[13] Oriel, Astha. (September 18, 2020), Unraveling Deep Learning Algorithms with Limited Data. Insight News. https://www.Analyiticsinsight.net.

[14] Erland, J. K. (2021, 1994, 1991, 1086, 1985, 1981). The Bridge to Achievement Cognitive Training System. https://memexspan.com and https://memspan.com Lawrence, Kansas. Mem-ExSpan, Inc. 

Sequenced Details: Working Memory Expansion - Your Best Mental Skill Created

Every moment of our day is rushed, serial. Each event becomes part of a singular-one-piece, holistic grid, creating unbearable tension, pressure, and stress.

Enveloped with daily fast driving, quick texting, constant, communicative blunders and demands, our thoughts become disrupted. We hurry, multi-task, resolve problems, issues; but, with a holistic, one-track mind. We remain fixated, less productive, in our daily routines.

Unwittingly, we create our own frantic, strange inner world that seldom interfaces with the outside hurried, demanding world. There is never enough time to enjoy life as we would like. Exhausted, we need and want some kind of relief.  Can a strategically trained mind, with sequential thought, become liberated, finding new, focused self-assurance,  even possible?            

Solution: We can upgrade ourselves to be a sharper, more autonomous, individual by applying strategic working memory training. [1] We can transition to a methodical mindset capability by applying detail awareness, through sequenced, chunked-coded, information. [2]  Series of step-wise operations require focused speed and accuracy. This will add not only proficiency to our tasks, but create a calm, methodical, mindset.

Thirty years ago, I wrote a similar, but technical article, on this same venue, [3]  and now sorely see the disastrous, dangerous, outcome of detail issues that are routine now, in all academic and professional fields.

Change Can and Should Begin Early

The best scenario is to begin sharp cognition enhancement early on. If young and teenage students become routinely aware of their own learning brain skill strengths and weaknesses, like athletes and musicians know their improvement goals, mental enhancement then becomes an habitual, ongoing process. [4]

The school learning process has always been a chicken/egg – ying/yang question as to why the student was not learning the content (lack of motivation, behavioral), or poor teaching (poor choice of lesson applications, or lack of class control). Subsequently, many children may wade through the academic process, unknowingly with cognitive shortcomings, and then, as adults, must create their own upward mobility through determination, insight, and courage through advanced education and training.  

And then, to find they have the same cognitive weaknesses that can further decline with age.

An old adage: “The Devil is in the Details”

You might say; “Why should I care about detail errors – I get paid anyway. Even double, with constant re-work.”

Yet, even with this faulty logic, steps can not be omitted, or the entire operational system fails. The end consumer pays. Mental, procedural skill abilities are now in high demand. We can interface with this demand, by showing awareness of, and then applying, good logical-sequential, solutions to avoid, or rapidly correct, these routine detail errors.

Understanding detail function is your  best career route, as supervisors notice your proficiency ;evel. And, you could spend years spinning your tires at low wages, job uncertainty, unnecessarily.

Working Memory Recognized and Understood
There are two primary memory and cognition processing types: visual and auditory-listening memory, (details and sequential). [5] Optimally, they should work in sync. Working in tandem cerates conceptualization, with understanding, and higher thought levels. There are sub-ordering categories within each type: words, letters, numbers, and sentences. [6] Subsequently, integrated visual and listening sequencing is the root of all academic and technical learning: following oral and written directions, reading writing, spelling and math.

Use it or Lose it with Continual Detail Workouts: Pills Will Not Create Sequences

 You can;
1) practice with the many existing, online, memory exercise routines like athletes and musicians do. But, they have their own specific practice drills, as they expect continued drill and practice as basics of their discipline, for excelling and maintaining performance edge.  

Or, 2) engage in a researched, data-evidenced, sequencing-skill building program, offering your own personal outcomes. You can use practice routines as a family, or within other group units.

A Numerical Practice Sample

Continued rehearsal practice can jump start your working memory for increased strength and capacity.  As a former “Mind and Brain - Vision” Kansas City chapter editor, and national contributor for the Association of Training and Development, (ASTD, Now, ATD, The Association for Development Talent), I wrote about the necessary skills of brain building through detail-sequencing: “Building a More Powerful Brain”. [7] All operational procedures, as in computer programming, technical skills, business management, or surgical routines, are a series of coded details and spans.

You may discover that keeping numerical figures straight, while listening to feedback instructions during data entry situations, is particularly difficult.  Additionally, many of us can not apply telephone numbers without looking.  We have most of the numbers we routinely use, entered into our cell phones. But, there may be non routine telephone numbers to enter at times. And, we generally look at them.

Okay then, let’s practice a few simple chunked number spans to improve our numerical sequencing.  Have someone read the number series to you, so you do not see the text.  Since telephone numbers are easy seven spans, try saying a few both forward and in reverse.  Scanning backward will help you visualize the numerical placement to avoid transposing. Then say it forward again. You can find many similar online practice games like this example.

Say this number series:  932-4737

Now in reverse:  7374-239

Repeat the correct number series forward:  932-4737

Here are two more.  Now, you can create your own as you drive home or to work:

1)          832-4787
    7874-238
    832-4787                                 

2)         239-5782
   2875-932
   239-5782 
        

You can now start developing your own sequencing skill, working memory, with continued practice. Mental toughness improvement can also soon be achieved through Mem-ExSpan’s short, online, practice sessions applying puppetry, comedy, acting, and music.   

Mental skill sequencing awareness and change gives ultimate job and career-choices for autonomous, life-long, personal freedom.

Jan Kuyper Erland, is a Performance Analyst, Content Development Researcher, and Intervention Specialist for Mem-ExSpan, Inc. 

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[1] Erland, J. K. (1999). Retraining cognitive abilities: A longitudinal study. Journal for Accelerated Learning and Teaching, 14. 1. 3-42. (ERIC ED #436 962).

[2]  Erland, J. K. (c 1989). Hierarchy of Thinking. Mem-ExSpan, Inc.

[3]  Erland, J. K. (1992). Cognitive skills training improves listening and visual memory for academic and career success. Journal of Accelerated Learning and Teaching. 20. 1. ERIC Clearinghouse (ED #353 286).

[4] Erland, J. K. (© 2008). unpublished document. Five Generations, 27-years of Iterative Brain-Based Accelerative Learning Experimentation, Demonstrate Cognitive Skill Improvement Enhances Academic Achievement and Career Goals.
(https://www.memspan/jalt)

[5] Guilford, J. P. (1986). Creative talents: Their nature, uses, and development. Buffalo, NY: Bearly Ltd.

[6] Woodcock, R. W. & Johnson, M. (3^rd ed. 2001, 1989, 1977). Tests of Cognitive Ability: Psycho educational battery. Hingham, MA: Teaching Resources Corp. Standard and Supplemental Batteries Examiner’s Manual. Allen, TX. DLM. 

[7] Erland, J. K. (Winter 1998-1999). Building a More Powerful Brain. Performance in Practice. ASTD. pp.13-14. (ERIC ED #439 445).