Dakim Exercises Based On Standardized Neurological Tests

It's human nature to do things we enjoy and avoid things that aren't so much fun. That's why we designed Dakim BrainFitness to be entertaining. But don't be fooled into thinking it's just for fun. There’s real science behind our games! Working with our scientific advisory board, we've transformed standardized neurological tests and exercises into compelling and truly fun brain games. Our Dakim game designers use movie clips, music, and vibrant graphics to amuse, entertain, and captivate our audience while stimulating their brains across six cognitive domains. Brain exercise has never been so much fun!

To show you what we’re talking about, here’s a kind of “before and after” gallery of standardized neurological tests—which are designed to probe specific areas of cognition—and the Dakim BrainFitness games that provide a similar challenge. In each case, our makeover is aimed at taking the sting out of feeling you're being tested and replacing it with the pleasure of playing a fun and challenging game.

Highlighted titles will take you to video examples of game-play on our Preview Our Brain Games page.

DOMAIN: SHORT-TERM MEMORY
Standardized Neurologic Test/Exercise

Wechsler Memory Scale
Digits Forward Test
•Description: Subject is asked to recall a sequence of numbers.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Memory Mambo

Point Digit Span
Letter Span
•Description: Subject is instructed to point out a number or letter sequence read by the examiner on a large card on which the numbers 1 through 9 appear sequentially.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Memory Mambo
      Word Wager
      Picture This

Recurring Figures Test
•Description: Cards containing geometric or irregular nonsense figures are shown, with some repeating. Subject is asked to indicate which designs were seen previously.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Memory Mambo
      Word Wager
      Picture This

Picture Scanning of Behavioral Inattention Test
Wechsler Memory Scale -III Family Pictures
•Description: Subject is asked to look carefully at a series of pictures carefully and both name and point out the major items in the pictures.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      My Favorite Things
      Which Is Unique?

Wechsler Memory Scale -III
Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised
Four Unrelated Words
Benson Bedside Memory Test
Auditory-Verbal Learning Test
•Description: Subject is asked to recall words after incremental time delays.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Odd Couples
      Famous People Little Known Facts
      Picture Pairs
      Make a Story
      Mazie's Face Finder

Wechsler Memory Scale, Logical Memory
Memory Assessment Scales
•Description: Examiner reads stories, asking subject for an immediate free recall of facts.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Keep Your Eyes Open
      News Flash
      Book Briefs

DOMAIN: LONG-TERM MEMORY
Standardized Neurologic Test/Exercise

Famous Events Test
•Description: Subject is asked to identify the true event and, if correct, tell the decade in which it occurred from a list of 50 famous events from the 1930s to the 1970s randomly interspersed with 50 made-up events.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      On This Day
      Historical Events
      Inventions and Discoveries
      Monuments and Landmarks

Famous Faces Test
Presidents Test
•Description: Subject is asked to recall, from black-and-white photographs, the names of people who achieved fame.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Identify & Reward
      Flashcard People
      First Name Basis

DOMAIN: VISUOSPATIAL OREINETATION
Standardized Neurologic Test/Exercise

Unusual Views of Pictured Objects Test
•Description: Subject is asked to identify familiar objects under distorting conditions.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Jigsaw Puzzle

Visual Object and Space Perception Battery
•Description: Subject is asked to identify objects based on silhouette images.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Matching Silhuoettes

Hidden Figures Test
•Description: Subject is asked to identify hidden figures by marking the outline of the simple figure embedded in the more complex one.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Hidden Figures

DOMAIN: COMPUTATION
Standardized Neurologic Test/Exercise

Arithmetic Subtest of Wide Range Achievement Test
•Description: Examines wide array of arithmetic and calculation skills.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Mazie's Minute Math
      Calculation with Currency
      Traditional Game Calculation

Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement
•Description: Examines wide array of arithmetic and calculation skills.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      All Hands On Deck
      What Card Am I?
      Time Zone Calculation

DOMAIN: LANGUAGE
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale -III vocabulary and similarities tests

Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language
•Description: Subject is asked to provide a definition for each word in a list of words.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Opposites
      Synonyms
      Misused Words
      Illustrated Sentences

Wechsler proverb tests
•Description: Subject is asked to translate a concrete statement into its abstract, metaphorical meaning.

SRA Reading Index
•Description: Multiple-choice reading test providing brief assessments of five levels of reading skill.

 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Illustrated Sentences

Word Finding Test
Word Context Test
•Description: Subject is asked to guess the meaning of a nonsense word based on the context in which the word was used in a sentence.

Wechsler proverb tests
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Blankety Blank
      The Journal of Rare and Useful Words

Word Fluency Tests: Semantic Clusters
•Description: Identify association between meanings of words.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Odd Couples
      Mind Over Mystery

Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
•Description: Subject is asked to select a picture most like the stimulus word provided.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Hidden Words

Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests, Comprehension
•Description: Measures ability to understand written passages.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Book Briefs
      News Flash

Johns Hopkins University Dysgraphia Battery
•Description: Oral spelling test
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Anagrams
      Scrambled Letters
      Letter Trails

DOMAIN: Critical Thinking (Executive Function)
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale -III Digit Symbol-Codiung

Digit Symbol Substitution
Symbol Digit Modalities Test
•Description: A printed key of different nonsense symbols is paired with randomly assigned numbers from one to nine. The subject must fill in blank spaces with the symbol that is paired to the number above the blank space.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Mind Over Mystery
      Phoenician Decoder

Lurias Neuropsychological Investigation
•Description: Neurosensory and cognitive tests.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Pictograms

Category Test (HCT)
•Description: Subject is asked to figure out the principle factor presented in several item sets.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Animal Groups
      Sort It Out

Object Sorting Test
•Description: Subject is asked to group familiar objects according to such principles as use, situation in which they are normally found, pairness, etc.
 •Dakim Exercise Analog:
      Sort It Out
      Situation Specific Actions and Objects