InSight: Benefits of Training

InSight improves your visual processing to improve your mental sharpness.

The InSight exercises are strategically 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—such as a person stepping unexpectedly onto the street, a dance step you’re trying to watch and learn, or someone’s brief facial reaction to something said.

Sharpening visual precision, which can help you spot and remember details, such as what someone you recently 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 into the street after a ball. For a basketball player focusing on the basket, it might mean seeing an opponent coming in from the side in time to prevent a steal. For a parent running to a crying child, it might mean avoiding tripping on a toy.

Expanding divided attention, which can help you track multiple moving objects, including cars at a busy intersection, children running around a playground, or your soccer team members as they run downfield.

Improving visual working memory, which has innumerable benefits to 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.

Additionally, InSight is designed to exercise the brain systems that produce neuromodulators—brain chemicals that are crucial for learning and memory. The production of these chemicals tends to decrease with age. InSight aims to increase production for better learning and memory.

These are all crucial ingredients to overall mental sharpness. For more detail on our “roots-up” scientific approach to program design, visit our Science section.

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Minimum Requirements
PC only (Click here to get on our Mac waiting list!)
Windows XP with at least 512 MB RAM or Windows Vista with at least 1GB (1000MB) RAM
1GHz or faster processor
X24 CD-ROM or DVD drive
1GB free disk space
Internet access