Insight Programme

Insight is our programme for the visual system of the brain. Visual processing is an especially important root of brain fitness because so many of our experiences and memories are defined by what we see. An improvement in visual processing and memory can help people feel sharper and more confident, and at the top of their game.

A Multifaceted Cognitive Workout
Insight features five engaging exercises performed on a computer. These exercises are carefully designed to improve the visual system in multiple ways, These include:

Speeding up visual processing. This helps you keep up with quickly occurring visual events – a person stepping unexpectedly onto the street, a dance step you’re trying to watch and learn, someone’s brief facial response to something said.

Sharpening visual precision.This can help you spot and remember details, such as what someone you met looks like or what dress your wife wore on your anniversary.

Enlarging useful field of view. (The area over which you can extract information in a single glance). For a driver watching the car ahead, it might mean noticing a child running on the street after a ball. For a snooker player focusing on the pocket, it might mean seeing an object in your wider peripheral view.

Expanding divided attention, which can help you tract multiple moving objects – cars at a busy junction, children running around a playground, or a hurling player as they run downfield.

Improving visual working memory. Which has innumerable benefits for daily life – from remembering where you left something, to keeping track of who is who in a new setting, to recalling the order in which you saw events unfold.

These elements are crucial ingredients in overall mental sharpness

The five Insight exercises include Bird Safari, Jewel Diver, Master Gardener, Road Tour, and Sweep Seeker. In these exercises, the science tasks are wrapped in game –like elements, making the exercises both effective and enjoyable.

Demonstrated effectiveness in clinical trials is always a priority for The Mind Health Project.

The Insight exercises incorporate useful field of view – a visual training technology described in numerous published studies. These studies show that people who use this training technology experience multiple benefits, including,

• A 300% average increase in visual processing speed.
• A 200% average increase in useful field of view.
• Improved driving safety(with 38% reduction in dangerous driving manoeuvres).
• Better maintenance of health-related quality of life.
• A better ability to stay independent longer.

Follow-up studies show that five years after training people continue to see benefits.

Several Insight features help users understand and individualise their experience.

• Exercise assessments enable users to track their progress in each exercise
• A video introduction and informational screens help users understand the science behind the exercises and what benefits to expect from them.
• A flexible schedule allows users to follow our recommendation or select their own.
• The exercises continually adapt to individual performance, so that each person is always training at the right level for him or her.

Both the Brain fitness programme and the Insight Programme can be structured to be completed over varying periods of time, full instruction is given on the use of the programmes, including computer operation if required.

As part of our unique leasing programme, The Mind Health project can supply computer systems including installation and training on a hire bases for the duration of the Brain fitness or Insight programmes to allow individuals or groups to part take in these valuable programmes without the need for expenditure on Computer equipment.

Out team have extensive experience in managing programmes and providing computer equipment, in catering for Retirement and Nursing home settings with up to 100 residents participating n the programmes at any one time, please contact our office for details on your specific requirements.