Welcome to HAPPYneuron's 2009 Winter Release

You'll notice new Cognitive Areas Trained information as you enter each game. Did you know that the process of understanding which cognitive brain areas are exercised in the game and which parts of your brain ‘light up’ when playing the game can actually enhance your performance? Just like when you focus on your breathing while exercising can enhance your performance.

You'll see a new Peer Results screen the end of each game. The Results and Comparison information has been combined and presented in a more intuitive graphics format. This feature offers more opportunity to review your performance relative to your peers*.

Sound has been introduced to the cognitive exercises for additional audio feedback on actions performed and on the announcement of correct or incorrect results. It's a known fact that some people respond better to sound feedback and others respond better to written feedback. Now you have both. Note that this sound feedback feature is entirely optional. It can be turned on/off with one click at the bottom left corner of any game.

Your Performance Profile

A new performance profile has been created on your home page. It has been designed to give you the most relevant and detailed information about your cognitive performance over time and relative to your peer group. New features include:

• The Cognitive Performance Index representing your overall performance within your peer group*.
• Written commentary about your cognitive performance at the overall level and within each cognitive function. You'll note that this also includes detailed breakdown of cognitive sub functions.
• Details of the games you have played and how you are progressing over time.
• A calendar record of your game play

Your Brain Workout

We bring you a simple and straightforward way to do your Daily Brain Workout. When you decide to do a workout, the coach will always start by recommending a 20 minute balanced session. You can go ahead and do the workout, request new games to be presented to you, or customize your workout by using the Customize My Workout box to the right. It's easy and it's all right there on one simple screen!

* A Note about Peer Comparisons

Age, gender and education level are the three primary variables that influence your cognitive reserve and your natural cognitive orientation. Therefore from a cognitive performance perspective, your peers are people of the same age, gender and education level as you and they can be expected to have a similar cognitive performance as you. Therefore, scientifically, it is essential that all comparisons relative to others are performed factoring these 3 important data points. With over 18M comparison points in the HAPPYneuron database, these comparisons are very accurate.