BrainWare Safari: Brain Training Product Review Survey

As part of our ongo­ing mar­ket research we’d like to ask past and cur­rent users of Learn­ing Enhance­ment Cor­po­ra­tion prod­ucts to share their expe­ri­ence with us via this 3‑question anony­mous sur­vey.  Please take this sur­vey if you have used a Learn­ing Enhance­ment Cor­po­ra­tion prod­uct your­self or have seen some­one else use it.

Take this 3‑question Survey

Please note that we do not endorse this prod­uct (or any oth­er) or any of the claims below. We inde­pen­dently track and ana­lyze emerg­ing brain/ cog­ni­tive sci­ence, tech­nol­ogy and inno­va­tion, and their real-world appli­ca­tions. This sur­vey helps us learn more about the latter.

Com­pany name: Learn­ing Enhance­ment Corporation.

Com­pany descrip­tion (in their own words, in their own web­site): “Learn­ing Enhance­ment Cor­po­ra­tion devel­ops soft­ware com­bin­ing neu­ro­science with moti­vat­ing video-game tech­nol­o­gy.   LEC prod­ucts inte­grate clin­i­cal method­olo­gies to help devel­op spe­cif­ic cog­ni­tive skills in indi­vid­u­als with iden­ti­fied learn­ing and/or atten­tion deficits.  Any indi­vid­ual can enhance his or her learn­ing skills for over­all improve­ment in men­tal fit­ness or a com­pet­i­tive advantage.”

Main prod­uct name/s: Brain­wave Safari — for all ages.

Prod­uct descrip­tion (in their own words, in their own web­site): “Brain­Ware Safari is built like a video game, but with a very spe­cif­ic pur­pose – to exer­cise 41 cog­ni­tive skills essen­tial for learn­ing and per­form­ing in every­day life.  There are 20 dif­fer­ent exer­cis­es in the pro­gram.  It keeps tracks of indi­vid­ual progress in the pro­gram and each of which devel­ops mul­ti­ple skills in a cross-train­ing approach.  It has var­i­ous lev­els and the fre­quen­cy and inten­si­ty of these that strengths the men­tal process.  Bri­ain­Ware Safari improve the men­tal fit­ness in 6 areas and improve 41 cog­ni­tive skills.  The 6 areas it helps are Atten­tion, Think­ing, Sen­so­ry Inte­gra­tion, Mem­o­ry, Visu­al Pro­cess­ing, Audit Processing.”

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To learn more about Sharp­Brains’ gen­eral analy­sis of emerg­ing sci­ence, com­pa­nies, tech­nolo­gies and prod­ucts, please see…

• Our com­pre­hen­sive mar­ket report for deci­sion-mak­ers & inno­va­tors: Trans­form­ing Brain Health with Dig­i­tal Tools to Assess, Enhance and Treat Cog­ni­tion across the Lifes­pan: The State of the Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket 2010 ($975)
• Our book/ con­sumer guide for every­one with a brain, named a Best Book by AARP: The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: 18 Inter­views with Sci­en­tists, Prac­ti­cal Advice, and Prod­uct Reviews, to Keep Your Brain Sharp ($15 paper­back; $8 eBook)
• To Eval­u­ate Prod­ucts Mak­ing Brain Fitness/ Brain Train­ing Claims: 10-Ques­tion Eval­u­a­tion Check­list (free; online,  one-pager, bookmark)