Benefits of NeuroTracker
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Thanks to over 100 published papers, NeuroTracker training has been shown to improve:
🎯 Focus
Improvements in the qualities above will also improve your skills in everyday life and performance
View for yourself the amazing benefits of NeuroTracker and how thousands of people are using it every day to improve their performance and quality of life.
Attention is the ability to concentrate on specific information while ignoring distractions. It's essential for tasks requiring focus and precision, such as studying or working on detailed projects. Improving attention can lead to better learning and productivity.
NeuroTracker is an excellent tool for providing maximum stimulation across many types of attention. As attention is shared across many aspects of human performance, such different types of sensory processing and motor-skills, increasing attentional bandwidth can bring many benefits for the real-world demands of everyday life. Different sessions in NeuroTracker focus on training-up different types of attentional skills. These include: Selective attention - focusing only on what matters and ignoring distractions. Distributed attention - being able to multi-task and spread awareness to attend to different things at the same time. Sustained attention - maintaining acute mental focus at a high level for an extended duration. Attentional stamina - extending mental focus over long periods of time without mental fatigue. Multiple research studies have demonstrated that just 3 hours of NeuroTracker training is effective at significantly enhancing these types of attention.
The NeuroTracker has had many successful results with people with ADHD.
Read more about how it can help with your ADHD here:
Focus allows you to concentrate on a task without getting distracted. This skill is crucial for achieving goals and completing complex tasks efficiently. Strong focus enhances performance in various activities by enabling deeper and more sustained engagement.
One study with elite rugby players also showed that NeuroTracker training was highly effective at allowing the athletes to avoid loss of attentional awareness under the duress of high physical fatigue. Training can therefore allow you to perform better under different types of pressure.
This means that your productivity and output at work can improve. You can read more about that here:
But it doesn't stop there! In multiple studies, NeuroTracker was shown to increase the performance of professional athletes in fast pace and dynamic environments.
One study with elite rugby players also showed that NeuroTracker training was highly effective at allowing the athletes to avoid loss of attentional awareness under the duress of high physical fatigue. Training can therefore allow you to perform better under different types of pressure. Learn more here.
Awareness involves being conscious of your surroundings and your internal state. It is vital for safety, effective decision-making, and social interactions. High awareness improves relationships, situational understanding, and helps prevent accidents.
NeuroTracker was shown in research to help adults improve their driving skills and predict how good they are at avoiding accidents on the road.
NeuroTracker was also found to reduce the risk of falling in the Elderly Population.
Likewise, another study showed that training dramatically improved older people's abilities to read and predict human body language cues. This was because their visual awareness increased, allowing them to track multiple parts of the body at the same time.
Increased visual awareness may also allow better avoidance of accidents, including injuries in contact sports.
Working memory is the capacity to hold and manipulate information over short periods. It's crucial for problem-solving, following instructions, and performing tasks that require mental manipulation. Strong working memory is linked to better academic and job performance.
As well as when giving answer inputs, working memory systems are taxed in NeuroTracker training whenever the spheres crossover or collide with each other. When speed of tracking increases with training, the rate of these interactions also increases, adaptively heightening working memory demands. For these reasons NeuroTracker is particularly effective at improving broad working memory skills, even with short amounts of training.
Numerous NeuroTracker studies show strong transfer to different types of working memory, including for auditory capacities. Learn more by searching ''working memory'' in our research database.
Processing speed is how quickly your brain interprets and responds to information. Faster processing speeds enhance cognitive function and improve efficiency in daily tasks. This is particularly important in environments requiring quick thinking and rapid responses, such as competitive sports or fast-paced jobs. NeuroTracker is a sensitive measure of processing speed due to it's adaptive speed threshold methodology. Speed of tracking is the key way difficulty is optimized for each user. When a user can achieve higher speed thresholds, the brains capacities for processing speed have increased. The Dynamic session in NeuroTracker combines processing speed with dynamic attention, by also adjusting the speed of targets unpredictably while they are moving. This approach helps to improve the use of processing speed in chaotic environments, such as playing team sports and navigating busy or fast changing environments.
NeuroTracker training significantly improved the processing speed of military personnel, which is critical for their dangerous operations.
Decision-making involves choosing the best course of action among various options. Effective decision-making is crucial for personal and professional success, leading to better choices and problem-solving abilities. It's particularly important in leadership roles and high-stakes situations.
Changes in NeuroTracker baselines can also predict individual's decision-making abilities on a day-to-day basis.
A real-world study with stock market traders showed that if NeuroTracker scores were higher than normal, a trader would make more profits that day. If there score was much lower than normal, NeuroTracker reliably predicted the traders would make a loss, and would be more profitable simply taking the day-off!
A study on soccer players showed a significant increase in successful passes after NeuroTracker training!
Cognitive performance encompasses overall brain functions, including memory, learning, problem-solving, and attention. High cognitive performance is essential for achieving academic, professional, and personal goals. Enhancing cognitive performance can improve quality of life and delay cognitive decline.
As NeuroTracker training improves a broad range of high-level cognitive abilities, it is a useful way to improve overall cognitive and even physical performance.
Sport-related cognitive skills involve mental processes required for athletic performance, such as strategic thinking, spatial awareness, and reaction time. These skills are essential for success in sports and can improve performance in other areas requiring physical and mental coordination.
Many sports vision experts and coaches use NeuroTracker as the core tool in their training kit. In particular, NeuroTracker is excellent for enhancing sports vision situational awareness. Learn about key sports vision principles and how NeuroTracker directly applies to them in our two-part blog: Sports Vision for Situational Awareness - Part 1 Sports Vision for Situational Awareness - Part 2
Motion perception is the ability to detect and interpret movement. This skill is critical for activities like driving, playing sports, and avoiding obstacles. Good motion perception enhances safety and performance in dynamic situations, especially when it involves peripheral vision demands.
NeuroTracker has a special session mode called ''Optic Flow''
Motor performance refers to the coordination and execution of physical movements. It's important for daily activities, engaging in sports, and maintaining physical health. Improved motor performance leads to better physical fitness, reduced injury risk, and enhanced quality of life.
Early NeuroTracker research discovered that the attentional demands of NeuroTracker and motor-skills are closely coupled. When attention demands are high, motor-skills tend to decline, with one study even showing that this effect can increase the risk of self-sustained ACL injuries.
NeuroTracker is very effective at increasing attentional capacities, and therefore motor-skills, particularly when performing under pressure.
Learn more about the intertwined role of attention and motor-skills, and how NeuroTracker training helps to improve them both.
Learning capacity is the ability to acquire new knowledge and skills. It is fundamental for personal growth, adapting to new situations, and achieving success in education and careers. A strong learning capacity promotes lifelong learning and continuous improvement, essential in a rapidly changing world.
These cognitive skills collectively enhance brain health and functionality, improving various aspects of life from personal growth to professional success. Improving these skills can lead to better mental and physical well-being. qEEG brain imaging studies have shown that 3 hours of NeuroTracker training enhances neuroplasticity - the ability of the brain to forge new neural connections, which is critical for all learning. By sustainably increasing brainwave activity and neuroplasticity, the brain becomes more primed for learning. Research by Professor Faubert, the inventor of NeuroTracker, has demonstrated NeuroTracker's unique ability to increase learning capacities in elite athletes. By completing at least 15 sessions, athletes become better able to learn and perform complex motor-skills under pressure. This methodology has been patented and validated as the ''NeuroTracker Learning System''. This essentially involves doing isolated Core training sessions, then incorporating dual-task training, starting with mastery of simple tasks at first, then moving on to progressively more complex tasks.
Anyone can use this method to train skills specific to their needs to very high levels. A range of perceptual-cognitive dual-tasks are also included in NeuroTrackerX for Organizations, which can be build into custom programs for clients. Learn more about the NeuroTracker Learning System.
But how exactly does NeuroTracker do all of the above? Professor Jocelyn Faubert, Director of the Faubert Lab at the Université de Montréal and founding member of NeuroTracker, explains everything you need to know in the video below:
Brain Trainability: Prof. Faubert explains how the mind can be trained and how NeuroTracker leverages this ability.
Real-World Transfer: He demonstrates how NeuroTracker scores correlate with improved real-life skills, such as:
Anticipating others' movements
Avoiding collisions
Soccer Performance Study: Prof. Faubert presents a study comparing two groups of soccer players:
Group A: Used NeuroTracker
Group B: Played video games Result: The NeuroTracker group performed 20% better on the field.
Adaptive System: He describes how NeuroTracker evolves by:
Responding to scientific inquiries and ideas
Addressing specific population needs
Determining optimal training programs for different groups
NeuroTracker is effective at training-up a wide range of high-level cognitive abilities.
NeuroTracker training enhances neuroplasticity, which broadly increases learning capacities.
There are different types of NeuroTracker sessions and training methodologies which can be applied to improve abilities in ways that are specific to an individual's needs.
NeuroTracker results provide a window into the brain to assess performance readiness or the influences of factors such as sleep and diet quality.
3D optic flow stimulates the sense of movement in the surrounding environment and can be useful for training visual balance systems, as well as detecting balance problems. It also has many real-world applications, such as allowing you to more accurately estimate your driving speed.
