Posit Science bends over backwards to provide feedback.
As you can see the amount of information is overwhelming if you collect it and try to figure out what it means, how one chart relates to another within the complexity of the program. On each exercise there is an introduction, a multitude of figures and histograms, transfer to everyday life suggestions, the scientific basis of the program, diagrams of the parts of the brain that are being exercised, etc., etc. I can understand why these are provided…Posit Science has a life-time of research invested in the design and implementation of the Brain Fitness Program and Cortex with Insight: they want recognition of this. (I believe they have taken out about 90 patents on the intellectual property). Rather than leave their work in academic journals, they have gone down the business track believing that the research evidence validates marketing something that can be of benefit to many people.
When we get our assessments it would be good to know more than percentage improvement in the exercise. Given three assessments, baseline, middle and final, was my improvement based on the low end of the task difficulty, or was I struggling at the higher end? Are there age norms available?
Several people that I have spoken to would like something simple and definitive, if that is possible.
But how much should we really expect from out software?
