In the Know

Being able to recall what you heard in a conversation helps you engage with others for successful and rewarding relationships. The examples of how this type of memory improves people skills are endless; it does everything from helping you follow up with a friend on an important event in their life, to remembering what your work colleague needed your help with.

In the Know, from BrainHQ’s People Skills category, exercises your memory for auditory details like these. It builds on other BrainHQ auditory exercises by extending memory demands to the common, real-world scenario of the complex conversational narrative. Your task in In the Know is to listen and watch a conversation unfold and then recall facts about the conversation when prompted.

Here’s how the exercise works:

1. The three characters will take turns talking about people they know. Some of these statements will be true, and others may be false. Listen closely and keep track of these stories.
   
2. When the characters stop talking, a questionnaire will appear. Select the correct answer (or “none” if the correct answer isn’t presented).
   

If an incorrect answer is given, you’ll hear a “bonk” sound and the characters may have a shorter conversation in following turns. If a correct answer is given, you’ll hear a “boop” sound and the characters may have a longer conversation in following turns. In both cases the level then continues, repeating from Step 1 above.

You can review the exercise video tutorial below:

In the Know from BrainHQ from Posit Science on Vimeo.

As you progress through In the Know, it becomes more challenging in these ways:

• The speed at which the characters speak increases
• The sentences become more complex and contain more information
• The breaks between sentences shorten