How do cognitive skills combine to complete a mental task?

 Try this:

Spell the capital of Saudi Arabia backwards.

It sounds easy, but this single task actually activates all seven cognitive skills:

1. You must stay focused (attention).

2. You need to remember the instructions (working memory).

3. You have to recall the capital of Jordan (long-term memory).

4. You decide how to approach the task (logic & reasoning).

5. You mentally break the word into sounds (auditory processing).

6. You visualize the word and read it in reverse (visual processing).
   
   

How fast you can do this depends on your processing speed.

If even one of these skills isn’t functioning efficiently, mental tasks become more difficult—regardless of how much tutoring or repetition you receive. That’s why our personalized, one-on-one training focuses on strengthening all cognitive skills together.