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Brain Training Report – Jerry – Stage 3, Session 11

Friday, August 26th, 2011

Stage: 3

Session number: 11

Average n-back: 2.5

okay, i took off a couple of days but did the entrainment. i decided to do today with the doors open and not alone with my wife doing stuff around the house to test my focus, wasn’t bad. kept it the same 2.5. so, not bad, tomorrow will go back to alone in my office. anyway, not bad.

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Brain Training Report – Jerry – Stage 3, Session 9

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

Stage: 3

Session number: 9

Average n-back: 2.5

YES! up again 2.5 my phone wasn’t on vibrate so it distracted me a bit. got back on track. but getting better at the focusing. this is so COOL. I look forward to it everyday and oh what a good nights sleep does. progress baby. gotta love it. everyday. What you put into it is what you’ll get out of it.

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Brain Training Report – Jerry – Stage 3, Session 7

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

Stage: 3

Session number: 7

Average n-back: 2.3

still at 2.3, but saw a real consistency with mostly 11 hits 3 or 4 misses. stayed the same pretty much the entire time. more focused this time in spurts. NICE. now off to create a wonderful weekend.

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Brain Training Report – Jerry – Stage 3, Session 4

Monday, August 15th, 2011

Stage: 3

Session number: 4

Average n-back: 2.3

Whoa…so, today i was in the zone on another audition. I felt like my brain was so tuned in to the character. then i just finished and went up to 2.3 TWICE i hit all of them. BOOYAH! so cool to actually feel my brain getting stronger. thanks again Martin for this WONDERFUL program.

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Brain Training Report – Jennifer – Stage 2, Session 6

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Stage: 2

Session number: 6

Average n-back: n=5

I aced n=4 and started n=5. what happened? I can’t even remember 4, let alone 5! I refused to go down to 4. Is that wrong? I’m just trying to get my brain to do 5. Yet, I feel pretty good that I’ve kept at it for 3 days in a row. That is really good for me. Almost consistent with something!

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Brain Training Report – Jennifer – double switchback, Session 4

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Stage: 2

Session number: 4

Average n-back: n=4

did a strong visual n=4. That is an improvement. Although, aural is weaker. Maybe because I answer that part second. Did entrainment today. Liking that, for some reason. Feel a bit of panic to remember everything.

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Brain Training Report – Gaurav

Monday, July 25th, 2011

Stage: 3

Session number: 21

Average n-back: 2.8

Unexpected session. There was a huge amount of variation. I started with n4, went all the way down to 2 and then regained focus and hit n5 for 5 times! The variation occurs when I have something on my mind. I need to improve focus. Once my focus was back I was able to make solid gains.
I mediated by looking into a flame of a candle today to introduce some variation. I had also taken a four hour practice LSAT earlier in the day. Loss in focus on test day could devastating. I’ll work on meditation and focus exercises for the next two months in addition to BFE. Cheers.

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Brain Training Report – John – Session 2

Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Session number: 2

Average n-back: 2.1

Duration (estimate in minutes): 15

Not a great performance. I really wish I would have done better. Stressed out today, and am doing this session in a Starbucks Coffee on my laptop – I could have chosen a better place to do this work, one that doesn’t field all kinds of competing visual and auditory stimuli.

Got to N=3 twice, but demoted back to N=2 immediately afterwards. However, the second time I was advanced to N=3 my score reflected less errors made (though a similar number of misses).

Looking forward to making better progress tomorrow, and wrapping up some anxiety-causing issues that may be running interference in mastering this game.

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Brain Training Report – John-Stage 3, Session 6

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Session number: 06

Average n-back: 2.3

Duration (estimate in minutes): 15

After completing my first four sessions in stage three, I was unable to reach N3; this is very discouraging. It seems that my advances are minuscule in comparison to the time spent. Continuing diligently though, with the hope that if consistent, my cognitive abilities will gradually increase.

Over the last several months i have focused on my sleep, nutrition, and exercise. This is beginning to show some promise. Being constant in these areas has afforded me noticeable improvements in my attention, short term memory, and processing speed.

During Session 5,6, finally, I have broken through, to some extent, and was able to advance six times to N3. Obviously I would rather be a N4 or N5, but in time these levels will be attainable.

Merry Christmas to all.

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Brain Training Report – Ray – Session 19

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

Session number: 19

Average n-back: 5.75

Duration (estimate in minutes): 30

I finished the 19 sessions. From a starting point of difficulty with n-3 I got to where I did reasonably well with n-6. I only have a few n-7.
After a little more than a week I tried another session to see if there was any loss of progress. I averaged 5.70 so not much difference.
As a base line I took the GIQtest online at the start and again at a week after finishing the course. I had a gain of 10 points. I actually did better in areas I did not think the training would affect. Maybe it is concentration improvement. I will continue on at 2 or 3 sessions per week and see if I can get past that n-6 mark.
Subjectively I have seen improvements in various activities. Filling out forms and remembering things like my passport number without looking back several times. My German lessons seem to go better. I retain the words better.
One of my main goals was to improve my chess playing through better memory. This will not be instant since the improvement is not by just memory but by what has been memorized, at least partly. But I have to say that my analysis of positions without moving the pieces has improved already and this is a help.

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This post was submitted by Ray Wagner.