face-name associations

Train your brain to remember her name: Key patent for cognitive training system using face-name associations

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– Illus­tra­tive image from U.S. Patent No. 8,197,258

Today we are shar­ing a 2012 patent by Posit Sci­ence aimed at enhanc­ing cog­ni­tive abil­i­ty using face-name associations.

U.S. Patent No. 8,197,258: Cog­ni­tive train­ing using face-name associations

  • Assignee(s): Posit Sci­ence Corporation
  • Inventor(s): Peter B. Delahunt, Joseph L. Hardy, Hen­ry W. Mah­ncke, Shru­ti Gangadhar
  • Tech­nol­o­gy Cat­e­go­ry: Neu­roCog­ni­tive Training
  • Issue Date: June 12, 2012

SharpBrains’ Take:

The facial recog­ni­tion capac­i­ties of the human brain serves a crit­i­cal func­tion, from when an infant first makes eye-con­tact with its moth­er through­out the span of adult­hood where we must be able to iden­ti­fy and dis­tin­guish oth­er peo­ple in order to nav­i­gate and oper­ate in soci­ety. [Read more…] about Train your brain to remem­ber her name: Key patent for cog­ni­tive train­ing sys­tem using face-name associations