Each part of the book is designed to improve one of five key cognitive abilities: Attention: How to hone your focus skills and reduce the impact of interferences Memory: How to call upon and train different types of memory: sensory, short-term, long-term, episodic, semantic, and procedural Language skills: How to decipher texts and store relevant information to get the general meaning Visual and spatial recognition: How to further develop your space perception and mental imagery tools Reasoning: How to bring together cognitive skills to best analyze a problem and develop an action plan As readers move through the book, they'll find a rating system to check their progress, along with prescriptive tips for sharpening their skills beyond the book. More than just a collection of brain teasers, Dental Floss for the Mind gives readers a complete program to assess their progress and hone their skills as they go.