Cogmed Working Memory Training
Improve your focus at work by strengthening your working memory
Improved focus empowers professionals
Research now indicates that working memory can be substantially and lastingly strengthened by training, to improve professional performance. In a work environment that is increasingly flooded with information, professionals need to stay on track, prioritize activities, and overcome the constant distractions that slow productivity. Working memory - the ability to keep information in mind for brief periods of time - is closely linked to fluid intelligence and is crucial for professional success.
What is working memory?
Neuroscientists have called working memory the brain’s search engine because it is what allows us to locate and retrieve information at a moment’s notice. A strong working memory empowers a professional to perform well under pressure, remain organized, and prioritize activities.
Individuals with strong working memory capacities are efficient with their time and well equipped to multi-task.
Research shows that training can improve working memory
Working memory is “plastic.” Like a muscle, it can be improved through exercise. In 2001, researchers at the renowned Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, discovered that working memory, long thought to be a set characteristic not malleable beyond a certain age, could be significantly improved through focused training regardless of age. The study also showed that these gains led to measurable benefits in daily life for those who completed training. The exercises used in this breakthrough research later became Cogmed Working Memory Training, a proven program that has successfully boosted focus and working memory for thousands around the world.
Leading universities have since validated the effectiveness of Cogmed Working Memory Training on a range of populations, including adults and children with attention problems and victims of stroke and traumatic brain injury; as an intervention, the program has been backed by peer-reviewed placebo-controlled studies published in leading medical journals.
Indicators of working memory deficits:
- Underestimating time required to complete a task
- Problems breaking a project down into manageable steps or dealing with more than one task at a time
- Difficulty concentrating under pressure; prone to panicking
- Difficulty remembering clients’ names or numbers after meeting them or hanging up the phone
- Difficulty creating neat and coherent emails, memos, or summaries
- Frequently late to work
What is Cogmed Pro?
Based on Cogmed’s proven training, Cogmed Pro is designed to help professionals sustainably improve focus by strengthening their working memory. The program enables those who are bogged down by the daily onslaught of information to better manage time, prioritize activities, and complete tasks.
The proven software program adjusts its complexity level for each exercise, in real time, for maximum training effect. And it can be completed right at your desk on your own PC, so you don’t need to leave your home or office.
Cogmed Pro is provided only by selected specialists qualified by Cogmed who monitor your progress to ensure the training is achieving maximum results.
What is included in the program?
- Initial program orientation.
- Start-up survey to establish training baseline.
- 25 training sessions lasting 30-40 minutes each, completed within six weeks
- Each user has access to a Cogmed Qualified Coach* to discuss progress once a week
- Two month follow-up interview to assess results
- 100 15-minute extension training modules available two months following training completion
Training benefits
Working memory is crucial for focus in the workplace. Users who complete training show improvements in:
- Time management
- Shutting out distractions
- Complex thinking
- Organizing and prioritizing activities
- Focusing under pressure
- Starting and completing tasks
Cogmed Pro can boost your professional performance and attentional stamina and that of your work team. To learn more, contact:
Marla Rosner
San Rafael, CA 94903
415-499-3533
mrosner@rosnerassociates.net
To learn more about working memory, take the
Working Memory Challenge at
aboutworkingmemory.org
About Cogmed
Cogmed was founded in 2001 by neuroscientists at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Cogmed Working Memory Training has been in successful use in Sweden since 2003 and was introduced to the United States and Canada in 2006. Cogmed’s North American Headquarters in located in Naperville, IL.
Cogmed Working Memory Training is not intended to be a substitute for a health care provider’s consultation or substitute for medication that a doctor may have prescribed. Results may vary. Effects or results in the individual can never be guaranteed.
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