Posit Science: Brain Training Product Review Survey

As part of our ongo­ing mar­ket research we’d like to ask past and cur­rent users of Posit Sci­ence prod­ucts to share their expe­ri­ence with us via this 3‑question anony­mous sur­vey.  Please take this sur­vey if you have used a Posit Sci­ence 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: Posit Science.

Com­pany descrip­tion (in their own words, in their own web­site): “Posit Sci­ence helps peo­ple be at their best through­out their lives by pro­vid­ing brain train­ing soft­ware clin­i­cal­ly proven to improve cog­ni­tive per­for­mance. Under the lead­er­ship of CEO Hen­ry Mah­ncke and Chief Sci­en­tif­ic Offi­cer Dr. Michael Merzenich, our team of experts designs, tests, and refines com­put­er-based exer­cis­es that effec­tive­ly address cog­ni­tive issues relat­ed to healthy aging as well as a broad range of oth­er con­di­tions.  Our mis­sion is to apply break­throughs in brain research to enhance human per­for­mance and to pro­mote brain health.”

Main prod­uct name/s: Brain Fit­ness and Insight for all ages; Dri­ve­Sharp — for drivers.

Prod­uct descrip­tion (in their own words, in their own web­site): “The Brain Fit­ness Pro­gram speeds up and sharp­ens audi­to­ry processing—the lis­ten­ing sys­tem of the brain. By improv­ing the quan­ti­ty and qual­i­ty of what your brain takes in through sound, it dri­ves an over­all improve­ment in think­ing, focus, and memory.

Insight — The InSight brain fit­ness soft­ware tar­gets visu­al processing—how effi­cient­ly your brain takes in and reacts to what you see. InSight speeds up and sharp­ens visu­al pro­cess­ing so you can focus bet­ter, notice more, and react quick­er. It’s a fun, high­ly effec­tive brain train­ing pro­gram you can use alone or pair.

Dri­ve Sharp — Dri­ve­Sharp brain fit­ness soft­ware is clin­i­cal­ly proven to make peo­ple safer dri­vers. It includes the three visu­al pro­cess­ing exercises.”

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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)