Solution: Here’s the solution to Alphabetical Disorder teaser posted on 21 Sep. The characters that can be found only on the right are #2, #3 and #7.

What’s the Benefit of Strong Attention Skills in Daily Life? Whenever we are presented with a new set of symbols, such as when learning to navigate traffic signs for the first time or when learning a language with a unique alphabet, we use visual memory and attention skills. As humans, we are unique in how we use symbols and characters to represent our world. It is part of our innate ability to learn and create languages, for example.

In terms of attention, consider everything that is stimulating your senses as you read this sentence. Perhaps there are background noises or a conversation nearby, the aromas of food or pangs of hunger, distractions in your peripheral vision, thoughts of things to do, recent conversations or events still fresh in your mind. Paying attention is resisting distractions and focusing on the task at hand. It’s a critical skill to master during the learning and development stages of life and can be the thing that makes the difference in success in a job or career.

For more concentration exaercises of this type try the HAPPYneuron game Ancient Writing or any of the other Attention Exercises for potentially hours of attention training.

Brain Teaser of the Day: Today’s brain teaser is called Alphabetical Disorder. Your task is to compare the different writing characters from each other in the image below. Take no more than 30 seconds to find out which ones are present in the right group and not in the left group.

What’s the point? In addition to your visual memory, this exercise primarily stimulates your attention, which is the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things. Further, this task will stimulate your concentration and your visual analysis of the shapes of characters. Visual scanning skills and your ability to attend to detail is put to the test.

What’s the Answer? Can you figure it out?