Speeding Up Your Thinking: Practical Steps to Improve Processing Speed

In this episode Mary Turos explains the difference between lab-based "processing speed" and the everyday slowness people experience, reviews the weak transfer of commercial brain-training, and shares practical, research-backed strategies to reduce bottlenecks. She covers building automaticity for specific skills, reducing working memory load with external supports, the benefits of exercise and sleep, ADHD considerations, and classroom or workplace accommodations to help people get more done efficiently.