TALi TRAIN is a digital cognitive training program that has been clinically tested and indicated to improve selective attention and numeracy skills, as well as improvements in inattentive and hyperactive behaviour in some children.
Underpinned by ongoing research, the technology powering TALi TRAIN has been the subject of rigorous double-blind, randomised controlled trials to prove its efficacy in children. By targeting attention skills specifically, it has been shown to provide long-term improvements in cognitive function not previously observed in children.
Cognitive training with the TALi TRAIN program.
Cognitive training is an established method of improving the performance of specific cognitive skills (i.e. skills relating to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes). Targeted skills of cognitive training may differ but all models rely on an individual—in the case of TALi TRAIN, a child—completing a specific task repetitively.
The tasks get increasingly difficult over a designated time period to challenge and improve attention skills. This results in the strengthening of neural pathways in the brain that are responsible for cognitive performance. Impairment of cognitive function is symptomatic of many disorders, including those that are neurodevelopmental and degenerative in nature.
The TALi TRAIN program uses cognitive training to assist children with attention difficulties to improve their attention skills. Research suggests that strengthening attention in young children can lead to improved short and long-term outcomes in social, academic and vocational aspects of life.
TALi TRAIN is a non-invasive training program that consists of 25 x 20-minute sessions, conducted over a five-week period.
A child completes four fun and engaging game-based exercises, with their performance forming the basis of their attention report. As the child progresses, the difficulty and experience changes through adaptive gameplay.
Throughout the training program, real-time data is recorded with progress reports available to you and your healthcare professional.
Each task in the TALi TRAIN program features a number of targets and distractors that are clearly identified so the child is familiar with the gameplay before commencing the task. This also involves completing a practice task following the instructions.
Visual search task
This task exercises mechanisms responsible for orienting attention to objects.
Go/no-go task
This task exercises mechanisms responsible for inhibiting a response deemed inappropriate and avoiding impulsive behaviour, which is an important component of executive function.
Sustained attention task
This task exercises mechanisms responsible for maintaining attention for longer on tasks that are not necessarily engaging or stimulating.
Flanker
This task exercises mechanisms responsible for conflicting information processing, which is an important component of executive function.
TALi DETECT was developed under the Cooperative Research Centres Program (CRC-P) from the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science.*
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*Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) Grants provide funding for short-term research collaborations. It supports industry-led collaborations between industry, researchers and the community with the aim of fostering high quality research to solve industry-identified problems.
