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Mind Sparke Brain Training Features
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Strengthens visual and aural working-memory, focus, and multi-tasking |
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Adapts in real-time producing progressive improvement |
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Tracks and guides progress with a personal training profile |
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Affordable on-line training; complimentary off-line software; guided meditation; and brain entrainment streaming audio |
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Progressive, Proprietary Training
Suitable for ages 11 and up, Mind Sparke Brain Fitness Pro delivers a carefully calibrated training program to strengthen visual and aural working memory, focus, and multi-tasking. Just thirty minutes of daily training increases short term memory, attention, and fluid intelligence by more than 40 percent in less than 20 days. Further training produces continuing gains in working memory, concentration, problem-solving ability, and mental sharpness.
At Mind Sparke we integrate the renowned "dual n-back" working memory training into a suite of proprietary brain exercises. We will guide you through these exercises, moving you on to the next level as you are ready.
Complimentary Off-line Training Software
Your on-line training subscription gives you complimentary access to "off-line" training software. You can use this locally-installed software to continue with your brain exercise even when you don't have an Internet connection. (You can also use it as an alternative to the on-line training if you prefer to run the training locally.)
Guided Meditation & Brain Entrainment
Brief periods of meditation in conjunction with the Mind Sparke training can dramatically enhance the training results. We highly recommend ten minutes of meditation before and after training. Your subscription includes access to Mind Sparke's own guided meditation audio recordings designed to increase the impact of the training.
Brain entrainment can be a useful training adjunct, too. While not as powerful as active brain exercise, brain entrainment audio recordings can further sharpen your mind and increase your focus. Your Mind Sparke subscription includes access to our library of brain entrainment audio files.
Continuous Feedback
At Mind Sparke we don't leave you in the dark about your progress. Brain Fitness Pro provides continuous feedback during your training and historically.
You can see your progress and gain insight into your training with a series of informative progress charts. You will always know how you're doing and what level of difficulty will be coming next.
The Training Method
Research has shown that training two modes of working memory at once is essential to achieving significant cognitive gains. For this reason, each of Mind Sparke's training exercises incorporates both visual and aural stimuli. The exercises start out with straightforward sequences that you must remember and repeat. This is followed by a more complicated series requiring you to remember the sequences and reverse them. Once your working memory and attention have reached an appropriate level, you will move on to the "dual n-back" working memory training (described below).
While the "dual n-back" training exercise has received a good amount of well-deserved attention, at Mind Sparke we see it as a part of a bigger picture. We therefore integrate the dual n-back training into a holistic, varied set of proprietary working memory exercises designed to promote adaptive and flexible strengthening of your executive control of working memory.
For the classic dual n-back training method, the program presents two sequences -- one visual and one aural. Your goal is to find matches in each sequence that are "n" positions apart.
To watch the animated demonstration below, click on the "Start" button:
The program presents a series of white squares on a black background, three seconds apart. At the same time it produces a series of spoken letters. You must try to identify matches in both sequences.
At the first level of difficulty, the matches occur two positions apart. In this example (left) of a visual sequence the blocks in the first and third positions match.
The diagram to the right depicts an aural sequence; the third and fifth (F) sounds match. The program presents the visual and aural sequences at the same time, as shown below.
As you begin to master the exercise, the program automatically adjusts the level of difficulty by increasing the distance between matches to three places and beyond. (Some customers have achieved a working-memory capacity of about 14 items - average untrained capacity is 5 or 6 items.)
Mind Sparke's proprietary training exercises take working memory training to the next level. By challenging your brain with an evolving sequence of new stimuli you will achieve new heights of brain power and intellectual capacity.
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Shaun's Mind Sparke
While training with Brain Fitness Pro isn't THE
 best choice I have ever made in my life, it does come within my Top Ten best choices.
I started at n=2 with great confusion, and I am currently at n=8 with increased confidence. I wanted a meaningful increase in both my concentration and my working memory. My concentration and working memory were out of shape because of a period of clinical depression. The Brain Fitness Pro training does seem to have improved both my concentration and short-term memory.
Further, I'd say that my general confidence and my general self-control, willpower, or volition have increased as well. I seem to be better able to accomplish tasks and overcome inertia. It seems to me that Brain Fitness Pro not only trains memory and concentration, but provides a salutary effect on the strength, power, and stamina of my mental muscle. Brain Fitness Pro may have lead to an increased ability for me to willfully exert mental force. Further still, my capacity to remain in the present moments may have improved as well. For sure, none of these claims are scientific, and are subjective at very best, except of course for my increase from n=2 to n=8, and my increase in my numeric aural digit span from just above average to a span of 8 numeric digits.
Over fifty-hours (so far!) of satisfying training for less than $50.00. That's value for money.
Follow Shaun's progress on the blog...
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