Patent ID: 6386881
Filing Date: 2002-05-14
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
A method for providing motivation to a user of a training process which, when executed, presents stimuli to the user wherein the stimuli is designed primarily to improve a cognitive ability of the user and measures the cognitive ability of the user by comparison of responses of the user to the stimuli to predetermined correct responses, the method comprising:for a number of iterations, presenting a stimulus to the user; receiving a response from the user in response to the stimulus; determining that the received response is correct for the stimulus; and acknowledging receipt of the received response when the received response is correct for the stimulus by presenting to the user an acknowledgment representation; for a predetermined percentage of the iterations, acknowledging by presenting to the user an acknowledgment representation having a first predetermined form; and for a second predetermined percentage of the iterations, acknowledging by presenting to the user an acknowledgment representation having a second predetermined form.