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BRAIN GAMES
ATTENTION
PAYING
Spot the difference Do you have a good memory for detail? These games will put
How is your eye for detail? Look your short-term memory to work, first testing how well you
at these two pictures and see remember the detail of a story and then how sharp your
if you can spot ten differences eye and brain are at spotting visual differences. Remember,
between them. Turn to page none of the information will go into your memory unless you
186 to see if you got them all. really focus your attention
on the exercise.
Important details
How well do you focus on
details when you read?
To find out, read this story
through carefully, but only
once, then see if you can
answer the questions below.
At last the backyard looked
perfect. Jenny admired the orange
lanterns hanging from the trees as they
glowed in the fading light and the pretty
tables dotted around the yard, decorated
with candles and pink roses. There was
a table laden with champagne, a white
chocolate cake, a whole salmon, and
a tall pyramid of strawberries.
Jenny began to feel excited. Her parents
had no idea about the party. They thought
they were just going to the movies.
Suddenly, she heard a familiar noise
that filled her with alarm—a dog panting.
Chester! She had locked him in the
bi
g,
kitchen. How had he gotten out? A big,
muddy, wet, and very smelly dog raced
up and proudly dropped a dead fishh at her
feet. Jenny knew where that had coome
ome
from—the Johnsons’ pond next dooor. She
groaned and tried to grab Chester’ss collar,
es
he
abl
but he leaped away. Between two tables he
a
shook his fur, splattering them bothh with
mud and grass. Then he spotted—oor
probably smelled—the food table and
raced up to it. Paws on the table, hee took
a bite of the salmon as a hundred
strawberries tumbled to the ground.
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