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Right Brain Kids – Wink! PhotoEyeplay

Right Brain Kids Photo Eyeplay activity is a visual process that stimulates the ability to see an object’s after-image, or negative photographic image. Black-and-white after-imaging develops the rods within the eye; color after-imaging develops the cones. This is a common exercise believed to help stimulate photographic memory development.

After-imaging activates the primary vision centers used for photographic memory. After-imaging also helps develop visualization by allowing the mind to create clear mental images, opening subconscious aspects of the right hemisphere of the brain, which governs memory, intuition and creativity. – Right Brain Kids

Here are a few PhotoEyeplay exercises from Wink: Right Brain Education (Right Brain Kids) that you can practice with:

About Right Brain Kids: Wink!

Wink is a Right Brain Education program for older children, gifted children, special needs children, and adults. It was developed by Right Brain Kids and is principally designed to prepare children for manifesting photographic memory, speed reading and similarly recognized “right-brain” abilities.

There are two parts to the Wink Program at Right Brain Kids – the Wink eCourse and the Wink Kit. The Wink Kit is great for parents who are interested in developing their children’s right brain and have no access to a right brain school and for parents who want to reinforce their children’s right brain education with further home practice. The Wink eCourse will teach you everything you need to know about implementing a Right Brain Education program at home.

Right Brain Education Activities for Photographic Memory Development

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Photographic Memory
The ability to remember information or visual images in great detail.

In Right Brain Education practice, there are several activities practiced to help develop photographic memory function. We have written about some of these activities previously and you can read about them here:

Below are some more activities you can use as part of your home practice…

Photo Memory Games

1. Spot the Difference

Using a spot the difference worksheet, show your child the first picture for a period of time. Then show your child the second picture and ask her to circle the differences from the first picture. You can download free spot the difference worksheets from these sites:

Or you can purchase spot the difference workbooks.

2. Photo Memory Game – Create the Picture

Alternatively, you can make your own photo memory game. Just use a background image and stick pictured objects onto the background at random. Show the image to your child and ask him to recreate the image on his own background card. Gingerwinkle has a number of these kits you can purchase if you don’t want to make them yourself. Another alternative is to purchase kits from Imaginetics.

3. List the Objects

Select a collection of random objects and show them to your child for a period of time. Remove the objects and ask your child to list all the objects she can remember seeing. Alternatively, you can show your child a picture of random objects and ask him to list what he saw.

Colour Memory Games

1. Colour Memory Kit

This is similar to Mandalas in the sense that the image is like a mandala. The difference is that your child has to recreate the pattern using shapes.

2. Colour Memory Blocks

You can also play this game using building blocks. If you already have a set of coloured wooden blocks you don’t have to get the kit. You can create a pattern and show it to your child. Remove the pattern you created and ask your child to recreate your pattern from memory.

Flash Memory Games

1. Memory Magic SuperFlash

You can use the Memory Magic game for this. A series of images will be flashed on the screen. After that, your child will be shown a screen with lots of images. She will have to select all the images that she recalls seeing during the initial image flash.

2. Flash Cards

Show your child a series of flash cards then ask him to repeat what he saw.

More about photographic memory development:

Apps: Right Brain Training – Mandala Memory Trainer

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The wonderful thing about the iPad/iPod/iPhone is that if you are patient enough, someone will eventually create the app that you are looking for. When I first wrote my Right Brain Training for Lazy Moms series of blog posts (the links are listed below), I searched high and low for a Mandala app that would replicate the activity in Heguru. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find one. Recently, a helpful reader shared the following app which is even better:

Mandalas – Memory Trainer available on iPhone or iPad. There are two game options:

Colour in the Mandala from memory – a Mandala pattern is displayed briefly and then removed. You are then given the pattern outline and are required to colour it in from memory.
Match the Mandala from memory – a Mandala pattern is displayed briefly and then removed. You are then given a choice of four Mandalas with the same pattern but different colouring and you need to identify the one you saw from memory.

There are 4 levels: easy, normal, hard, and expert. Each level contains 25 Mandala patterns (the first 5 are free). To unlock the rest, you need to purchase access to the full app for $0.99. The duration of time that the Mandala is shown on screen can be adjusted from 1 second to 5 seconds. They also recommend pausing for 5-10 seconds before colouring the Mandala to train your memory. Over time, the aim is to lengthen the time. If you can pause for 1 minute after the Mandala has disappeared and colour in the Mandala correctly, you can assume that you have successfully developed your photographic memory.