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1. A computer-implemented method to promote reasoning ability in a subject, by performing a sequential sensorial perceptual search, discrimination and sensory motor selection of a pair of letters forming an open proto-bigram from an alphabetic set array, wherein each pair is formed by two different letter symbols, has a semantic meaning, and must be discriminated by sight, the performance promoting the reasoning ability in the subject to conceptualize unique ordinal location and relative ordinal position in a sequential order of each different letter symbol forming the alphabetic set array without requiring involvement of semantic retrieval or associative learning during an exercise, the method comprising:
a) the computer selecting a letters sequence of the alphabetic set array from a predefined library of letters sequences, wherein the letters all have the same spatial and time perceptual related attributes; and providing the selected letters sequence on the computer to the subject together with a ruler displaying an open proto-bigrams sequence selected by the computer from a library of open proto-bigrams sequences, wherein the open proto-bigrams all have the same spatial and time perceptual related attributes; b) asking the subject on the computer to reason about the serial order of the letters in the selected letters sequence according to predefined instructions, by searching within the letters sequence to judge if any two consecutive or non-consecutive letters in the letters sequence (1) can form either a direct or an inverse type open proto-bigram term, or (2) cannot form either a direct or an inverse type open proto-bigram term; c) prompting the subject on the computer to sensory motor select two letters discriminated during step b), one letter at a time in sequential order according to the predefined instructions, within a first predefined time period; d) if the sensory motor selected letters are incorrect, then returning to step b); e) if the sensory motor selected letters are correct, then immediately in the ruler providing one or more of a visual, auditory, or tactile perceptual stimulus to the subject according to a predefined program; f) if all of the open proto-bigram terms required by the predefined instructions of step b) have been discriminated and sensory motor selected from the letters sequence of the exercise within the first predefined time period, then immediately providing a visual stimuli by changing at least one spatial and/or time perceptual related attribute of all of the correctly selected open proto-bigram terms displayed in the ruler at the same time again during a second predefined time period; g) repeating the above steps a predefined number of iterations, each iteration separated by a third predefined time interval starting at the end of the second predefined time period of step f); and h) presenting the subject with results from each iteration on the computer at the end of the predefined number of iterations. |
