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Table 4 New digital cognitive exercises

From: The German day-care study: multicomponent non-drug therapy for people with cognitive impairment in day-care centres supplemented with caregiver counselling (DeTaMAKS) – study protocol of a cluster-randomised controlled trial

Group of tasks

Explanation

Naming and linking

Naming objects, thinking of other objects in the same category, selecting an object whose name begins with a certain letter

Completing pictures

Saying what detail of a picture or object is missing that is necessary for it to work or should normally be there

Putting picture stories in order

Putting pictures with individual scenes on them in order so that a meaningful story is created

Memorising

Memorising a list of pictures, symbols, or words and recognising or reproducing them again

Finding pairs

Identifying the pictures in a set that fit together logically and creating meaningful pairs

Series exercise

Continuing a series of symbols in a logically correct way

Finding shadows

Identifying which shaded shape is the correct outline of which picture

Finding symbols

Recognising target symbols in the group of symbols presented

What goes together?

Choosing common objects that match certain places or scenes

Knowledge quiz

Answering general knowledge questions of varying difficulty levels by selecting the correct response