138 results about "Cognitive training" patented technology

A computer-implemented method for enhancing cognition, e.g., for improving cognitive ability of a participant using visual stimuli. A set (or sets) of visual stimuli is provided for visual presentation to the participant. A visual stimulus from the set is visually presented to the participant. The participant is required to respond to the visual stimulus. A determination is made regarding whether the participant responded correctly. The stimulus intensity of the visual stimuli presented may be adjusted based on the correctness / incorrectness of the participant's response according to a single-stair maximum likelihood (e.g., ZEST) or N-up / M-down procedure. The visually presenting, requiring, and determining are repeated one or more times in an iterative manner to improve the participant's cognition, e.g., ability to process visual information, memory, etc. Assessments may be performed during the repeating according to a dual-stair maximum likelihood (e.g., ZEST) or N-up / M-down procedure. The repeating may include performing multiple exercises using visual stimuli.

A method on a computing device is provided for assessing a stimulus threshold of an older adult by requiring the adult to differentiate between rapidly presented stimuli. The method trains the time order judgment of the adult by presenting upward and downward frequency sweeps, in random order, separated by an inter-stimulus interval (ISI). Icons associated with the upward and downward frequency sweeps allow the adult to indicate an order in which the frequency sweeps are presented (i.e., UP-UP, UP-DOWN, DOWN-UP, and DOWN-DOWN). Correct / incorrect selection of an order causes the inter-stimulus interval and / or the duration of the frequency sweeps to be adaptively reduced / increased, using a maximum likelihood procedure, such as ZEST or QUEST, where two tracks, each with a respective duration and ISI, are adjusted until their values substantially converge, or a specified number of trials is performed. The threshold is determined by averaging the final values of the two tracks.

The present invention provides methods of therapy of cognitive deficits associated with a central nervous system disorder or condition, methods of enhancing cognitive performance and methods for repeated stimulation of neuronal activity or a pattern of neuronal activity, such as that underlying a specific neuronal circuit(s). The methods comprise combining cognitive training protocols and a general administration of CREB pathway-enhancing agents.

An apparatus and method for training the cognitive and memory systems in a subject is provided. The apparatus and method incorporates a number of different games to be played by the subject. The games artificially process selected portions of language elements, called phonemes, so they will be more easily distinguished by the subject, and gradually improves the subject's neurological processing and memory of the elements through repetitive stimulation. The programs continually monitor a subject's ability to distinguish the processed language elements, and adaptively configures the programs to challenge and reward the subject by altering the degree of processing. That is, the subject advances through a number of different processing or skill levels as their ability to distinguish between language elements improves. The subject's progress through the processing levels is recorded to allow an adaptive timing mechanism to optimize game play time for each of the games. As the subject advances through the processing levels in a particular game, the amount of game play time for that game is reduced. This insures that the subject spends the most time with those games s / he finds most difficult, and the least time with those games s / he has mastered.

Computer-implemented method for enhancing cognitive ability of a participant using multiple object tracking. One or more images are provided and are available for visual presentation to the participant. A plurality of images based on the one or more images are visually presented, including multiple target images and multiple distracter images, where each of the target images is graphically indicated for a first time period, and then each of the images is moved for a second time period during which the graphically indicating is not performed. The participant is then required to select the target images from the plurality of images, and a determination is made regarding the selection's correctness / incorrectness. The visually presenting, requiring, and determining are repeated one or more times in an iterative manner to improve the participant's cognition. The stimulus intensity may be adjusted each iteration based on the participant's response. Assessments may be performed.

A cognitive training system provides cognitive skills development using a suite of music and sound based exercises. Visual, auditory, and tactile sensory stimuli are paired in various combinations to build and strengthen cross-modality associations. The system includes a cognitive skills development platform in which training video-games and cartoons are user presented. The platform uses computer implemented systems and methods for training a user with the aim of enhancing processes, skills, and / or development of user intelligence, attention, language skills and brain functioning. The cognitive training system may be utilized by users of varying, or no, musical skills and is presented at a difficulty level corresponding to user characteristics, age, interests and attention span. User characteristics may be assessed in several manners, including retrieval of past performance data on one or more of the exercises.

Computer-implemented method for enhancing cognition of a participant using visual search. A target image and distracter image are provided for visual presentation. Multiple images, including the target image and multiple distracter images based on the distracter image, are temporarily visually presented at respective locations, then removed. The participant selects the target image location from multiple locations in the visual field, and the selection's correctness / incorrectness is determined. The visually presenting, requiring, and determining are repeated to improve the participant's cognition, e.g., efficiency, capacity and effective spatial extent of a participant's visual attention. In a dual attention version, potential target images differing by a specified attribute are provided, one of which is the target image. An indication of the specified attribute is also displayed. The participant selects the location of the target image from the multiple locations, including the locations of the potential target images, based on the indication.

Computer-implemented method for enhancing a participant's cognition, including, e.g., visual memory, utilizing a computing device to present visual stimuli for training, and to record responses from the participant. Multiple graphical elements are provided for visual presentation to the participant. A temporal sequence of a plurality of the graphical elements is visually presented, including displaying each graphical element in the sequence at a respective location in a visual field for a specified duration, then ceasing to display the graphical element. The presented graphical elements include at least two matching graphical elements. The participant is required to respond to the presented sequence, including indicating locations of matching graphical elements. A determination is made as to whether the participant responded correctly, and the duration modified based on the determining. The visually presenting, requiring, determining, and modifying are repeated one or more times in an iterative manner to improve the participant's cognition.

Computer-implemented method for enhancing cognition of a participant using visual emphasis. One or more scenes are provided and are available for visual presentation to the participant, each scene having a background and at least one foreground object. A scene is visually presented to the participant with a specified visual emphasis that enhances visual distinction of the at least one foreground object with respect to the background, where the foreground object(s) and / or the background are modified or selected to achieve the specified visual emphasis. The participant is required to respond to the scene, and a determination made as to whether the participant responded correctly. The visual emphasis may be modified based on whether or not the participant responded correctly a specified number of times. The presenting, requiring, and determining (and possibly the modifying) are repeated in an iterative manner to improve the participant's cognition.

A method on a computing device for enhancing the memory and cognitive ability of a participant by requiring the participant to differentiate between rapidly presented aural stimuli. The method trains the time order judgment of the participant by iteratively presenting sequences of upward and downward formant frequency sweeps, in random order, separated by an inter-stimulus interval (ISI). The upward and downward formant frequency sweeps utilize frequencies common in formants, i.e., the characteristic frequency components common in human speech. Icons are associated with the upward and downward formant frequency sweeps to allow the participant to indicate an order in which the sweeps are presented (i.e., UP-UP, UP-DOWN, DOWN-UP, and DOWN-DOWN). Correct / incorrect selection of an order causes the ISI and / or the duration of the frequency sweeps to be adaptively shortened / lengthened. A maximum likelihood procedure may be used to dynamically modify the stimulus presentation, and / or, to assess the participant's performance in the exercise.

A computer-implemented method for enhancing cognitive ability of an older participant by requiring the participant to differentiate between rapidly presented visual stimuli. First and second visual sweeps are provided for visual presentation to the participant, e.g., spatial frequency or orientation sweeps. At least two visual sweeps are visually presented to the participant utilizing the first visual sweep, the second visual sweep, or a combination. The participant is required to indicate an order in which the at least two visual sweeps were presented. A determination is made regarding whether the participant indicated the order of the visual sweeps correctly. The visually presenting, requiring, and determining are repeated one or more times in an iterative manner to improve the participant's cognition. The duration of the sweeps may be adjusted based on the correctness / incorrectness of the participant's response according to a maximum likelihood procedure. Assessments may be made during the exercise.

Computer-implemented method for enhancing a participant's cognition, including, e.g., visual memory, utilizing a computing device to present visual stimuli for training, and to record responses from the participant. Multiple graphical elements are provided for visual presentation to the participant. A temporal sequence of a plurality of the graphical elements is visually presented, including displaying each graphical element in the sequence at a respective location in a visual field for a specified duration, then ceasing to display the graphical element. The presented graphical elements include at least two matching graphical elements. The participant is required to respond to the presented sequence, including indicating locations of matching graphical elements. A determination is made as to whether the participant responded correctly, and the duration modified based on the determining. The visually presenting, requiring, determining, and modifying are repeated one or more times in an iterative manner to improve the participant's cognition.

The invention discloses a spatial cognition rehabilitation training system based on virtual reality and eye tracking. The system comprises a virtual reality device. The virtual reality device comprises a scene display assembly which is used for displaying a virtual reality scene and a training task scene, an infrared eye tracking assembly which obtains eye movement data in real time when a trainee completes the task according to training task requirements and transmits the eye movement data to a data analyzing module; a data analyzing module which analyzes eye movement indexes when the trainee completes the scene task according to the data obtained by the eye tracking assembly, evaluates the visual space processing characteristics of the trainee, and transmits the result to an eye movement guiding cognition training module, and the eye movement guiding cognition training module which calls different eye movement prompting modes for guiding machining according to the visual space processing characteristics. The spatial cognition training is conducted through the virtual reality scene, guiding processing is conducted in a targeted mode, and the method has more ecology, effectiveness and operability compared with the prior art.

System and method for enhancing cognition using continuous performance with multiple stimulus streams. A target correspondence is presented. A continuous sequence of stimulus groups is presented one stimulus group at a time, where each stimulus group includes at least two stimuli, and where each stimulus group is presented for a specified duration, and separated by a specified inter-stimulus-interval (ISI). For each stimulus group in the sequence: the subject is required to respond to the group, indicating when all the stimuli in the group correspond in accordance with the target correspondence, and refraining from indicating when the stimuli do not correspond, correctness / incorrectness of the response is determined, and the duration and / or the ISI adjusted accordingly, using an adaptive procedure, e.g., a continuous performance maximum likelihood procedure. The presenting the target correspondence, presenting the sequence of stimulus groups, and the requiring / determining / adjusting for each group, are iterated to improve cognition of the subject.

Computer-implemented method for enhancing the cognitive ability of a participant using face-name associations. A plurality of facial images of people are provided for visual presentation to the participant, each person having a name. A learning phase is performed, including concurrently presenting a first facial image of a person from the plurality of facial images, and the name of the person. A testing phase is then performed, including: presenting a second facial image of the person from the plurality of facial images, displaying a plurality of names, including the name of the person and one or more distracter names, requiring the participant to select the name of the person from the plurality of names, and determining whether the participant selected the name correctly. The learning phase and the testing phase are repeated one or more times in an iterative manner to improve the participant's cognition, e.g., face-name association skills.

A computer-implemented method for enhancing cognition, e.g., for improving cognitive ability and memory of a subject using continuous performance with respect to a stimulus stream. A target descriptor is presented to the subject after which, a continuous sequence of stimulus groups from a stimulus set is presented one stimulus at a time, each stimulus presented for a specified duration, and separated by a specified inter-stimulus-interval (ISI). For each stimulus in the sequence: the subject is required to respond to the stimulus, indicating when the stimulus corresponds to the target descriptor, and the duration and / or the ISI adjusted accordingly, using an adaptive procedure. The presenting the target descriptor(s), presenting the continuous sequence, and requiring / determining / adjusting for each stimulus, are repeated iteratively to improve the cognition of the subject.

This invention enables targeting, personalized measurement, and management of cognitive skills development by users, clinicians, teachers, and parents. The invention features a game based virtual learning curriculum for targeting and developing the underlying cognitive skills of executive functions. The methods and systems of the invention provide an effective and rapid video game-based training curriculum to improve the cognitive skills such as focused attention, sustained attention, cognitive inhibition, behavioral inhibition, selective attention, alternating attention, divided attention, interference control, novelty inhibition, delay of gratification, inner voice, motivational inhibition, and self-regulation. This curriculum utilizes: (i) each of the cognitive processes that underlie attention control and impulse inhibition; (ii) the identification of measurable and trainable cognitive skills; and (iii) game design and game mechanics that effectively train and enable retention of those skills. The game-based system provides a medical professional, clinician, parent, teacher and user with the ability to measure and manage training of targeted cognitive skills to reach a desiredperformance goal.

The present invention provides a system and method for neurological treatment. The system of the invention includes a neurological stimulation (NS) modality that delivers neurological stimulation to a first brain region and a cognitive training (CT) that delivers CT to a second brain region, where activation of the CT modality occurs at a predetermined time relative to the activation period of the NS modality. In one embodiment, the NS and CT are interlaced. The first and second brain regions may be the same brain regions or different brain regions. The invention may be used, for example, in the treatment of dementia, neurological conditions or psychiatric conditions.

Computer-implemented method for enhancing cognition of a participant using visual emphasis. One or more scenes are provided and are available for visual presentation to the participant, each scene having a background and at least one foreground object. A scene is visually presented to the participant with a specified visual emphasis that enhances visual distinction of the at least one foreground object with respect to the background, where the foreground object(s) and / or the background are modified or selected to achieve the specified visual emphasis. The participant is required to respond to the scene, and a determination made as to whether the participant responded correctly. The visual emphasis may be modified based on whether or not the participant responded correctly a specified number of times. The presenting, requiring, and determining (and possibly the modifying) are repeated in an iterative manner to improve the participant's cognition.

System and method for enhancing cognition using continuous performance with respect to one or more stimulus streams. At least one target attribute is presented to the subject after which a continuous sequence of stimulus groups from a stimulus set is presented one stimulus group at a time, each group including one or more stimuli, presented for a specified duration, and separated by a specified inter-stimulus-interval (ISI). For each stimulus group in the sequence: the subject is required to respond to the group, indicating when all the stimuli in the group correspond to the target attribute(s); correctness / incorrectness of the response is determined, and the duration and / or the ISI adjusted based on the determining using an adaptive procedure, e.g., a continuous performance maximum likelihood procedure. The presenting the target attribute(s), presenting the continuous sequence, and requiring / determining / adjusting for each group, are repeated iteratively to improve the cognition of the subject.

The invention discloses a cognitive function training system for scene interaction and an application method thereof. The cognitive function training system for scene interaction comprises display equipment and a pair of 3D (three-dimensional) glasses, wherein the display equipment comprises a touch display screen, and a storage and a man-machine interaction device arranged in the display equipment; a scene interaction scene content is prestored in the storage; the touch display screen and the storage are respectively connected with the man-machine interaction device; and a user interacts with the man-machine interaction device in the display equipment through the touch display screen by wearing the 3D glasses. The cognitive function training system is adopted, so that a virtual scene interaction scene can be provided to vividly simulate a relevant real life scene, a user can feel to be personally on the scene, and the training initiative of the user can be improved. Cognitive training of the user can be blended in different life scenes, damaged and comprehensive cognitive competences of the user can be trained specifically, cognitive competence of the user in actual life can be improved, and the user can be helped to return to society as soon as possible.

A method of providing cognitive training to a user, the method including, in a processing system, presenting a cognitive task to a user, the cognitive task requiring the user to view presented information and provide at least one input response; determining the at least one input response using an input device; determining from a measuring device a measure of electrical activity in the user's brain whilst performing the cognitive task; and, determining a score based on at least one of the at least one input response and the measured electrical activity.

The invention relates to the field of cognitive rehabilitation training for brain health and provides a cognitive training method and system for improving memory. The training method comprises the following steps: the personal information of a user is inputted for account registration; a corresponding training mode is selected for training according to the cognitive disability level of the user; the data generated in the training process and the personal information of the user are stored in a database, and a training report is generated; and the cognitive ability of the user is evaluated after a training cycle is completed, and a training project is updated. Based on the cognitive impairment characteristics, the occurrence regularity and the nerve plasticity of dementia, the method and the system provided by the invention are researched and developed on the basis of multiple classical experimental paradigms of cognitive psychology, both interestingness and playability are considered,elements of traditional Chinese culture and the like are incorporated, and scientific and effective individualized and intelligent training is carried out on the memory (situational memory, working memory and the like) of people with chief complaint cognitive impairment and mild cognitive impairment and at risk of dementia.

The invention discloses a balance rehabilitation and cognition rehabilitation combined training system and method. Via the training system, a rehabilitation specialist sets rehabilitation contents aimed conditions of a patient, a training situation in which the patient feels less bored in the training process and adapted to the system is constructed according to the set rehabilitation contents, and balance rehabilitation and cognition rehabilitation are combined in the same situation; in the training process, the patient guides rehabilitation and cognition training by motions; and the system obtains motion data of the patient in the training process by body sensing equipment, calculates the gravity center of the patient, carries out visualized display, and displays a training result in a visual way and provides evaluation feedback timely, so that the rehabilitation specialist can guide and evaluate the patient conveniently. Thus, the patient feels less bored in the rehabilitation process, and is more confident in completing the rehabilitation training process.

The disclosure is directed to methods for enhancing cognition in a participant by dynamically constructing a cognitive training regime to exercise desired benefits. Additionally, computer implemented methods for enhancing cognition in a participant by dynamically constructing a cognitive training regime to exercise desired benefits are also provided. The methods and systems disclosed include the use or implementation of computer comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory comprising computer-executable instructions that when executed by the processor perform operations including: dynamically constructing a cognitive training regime to exercise desired benefits.

The invention relates to the field of brain health cognitive rehabilitation training and aims to solve the technical problem of providing a cognitive training method for improving executive functionsand a system. The cognitive training method comprises the following steps: inputting personal information of a user, and registering an account; according to a cognitive function defect grade of the user, selecting corresponding training modes to carry out training; storing data generated in the training process and the personal information of the user into a database, and generating training reports; after one training cycle, evaluating the cognitive capability of the user, and updating training items. The cognitive training method is developed according to dementia disease cognitive damage characteristics, occurrence regularity and neuroplasticity and on the basis of multiple classical cognitive psychology experimental paradigms, meanwhile interestingness and playability are taken into account, elements such as traditional Chinese culture are engaged, and scientific and effective individual and intelligent training on chief action cognitive impairment, mild cognitive impairment and executive functions of people with the risk of dementia can be implemented.

The invention relates to a system for cognitive disorder screening and individualized training. The system comprises a portable electroencephalograph, a user APP, a background server and a medical staff APP, wherein the user APP is installed inside an intelligent mobile terminal of a user, and the portable electroencephalograph is linked with the intelligent mobile terminal through Bluetooth; the intelligent mobile terminal is linked with the background server in a wireless mode, the background server is linked with a computer of a medical worker in a wired or wireless mode, and the medical staff APP is installed inside the computer of the medical worker; the user APP is used for customizing cognitive training tasks for the user according to individualized information of the user, receiving an electroencephalogram of the user which is sent by the portable electroencephalograph, and sending the achievement condition of the cognitive training tasks of the user and the electroencephalogram of the user to the background server to enable the background server to build communication between the user APP and the medical staff APP. According to the technical scheme, the system for cognitive disorder screening and individualized training can solve the problems that facilities for cognitive training in the prior art are single in function, and can not be popularized in family use.