Abstract

"Cog-Tr" is an acronym for Cognition and Training. Cognitive functions are the abilities necessary for basic social life such as seeing, remembering, and imagining, and are also the "foundation of learning." For example, learning kanji requires the cognitive ability to recognize shapes, and calculation requires the cognitive ability to see numbers as quantities rather than symbols. In other words, in writing kanji and doing calculations, we will train the cognitive functions that are the foundation. In this book, more than 80 items are posted to steadily improve the ability to "remember", "count", "copy", "find" and "imagine". For children, it is a part of "learning", and for adults, it is a "brain activity" that enhances cognitive functions. Please try it while having fun! The difference between general drill books and puzzle books, carefully selected effective problems that enhance "cognitive function" devised by a doctor! Playful tasks such as games and puzzles create a "foundation for learning", and unlike learning drills, you can do in a playful way, so even if you can't do them, you won't lose your self-esteem.

Author’s Information

Professor at Ritsumeikan University College of Social Sciences and Graduate School of Human Sciences. Graduated from the Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, he worked for a construction consulting company before graduating from the Faculty of Medicine, Kobe University. As a child psychiatrist, he worked at a psychiatric hospital, a medical juvenile training school, and a juvenile training school, and has been in his current position since 2016. At a juvenile training school, he learned that there were many boys with weak cognitive functions, and devised a training program called "Cogtore" to improve the cognitive functions of children. Since 2020, he is the representative director of the Japan COG-TR Association, which promotes and researches cog training. His books include "Delinquent boys who can't cut cake" (Shinchosha), "5 minutes a day! He has authored many books such as Cog training that can be used in the classroom (Toyokan Publishing Co., Ltd.), and Cog training for him to see, hear, and imagine cognitive functions (Miwa Shoten).