Attention
Filtering distraction and assigning resources to what matters. Attention accompanies every other cognitive process, which is why a weakness here shows up everywhere else.
Focused attention, divided attention, inhibition, shifting, updating
Cognitive health
Understand how your mind is working, ability by ability
Cognition is not one thing. CogniFit measures five broad domains and twenty-three individual abilities, then turns that profile into a training plan. This page explains what is measured, how, and what the results can honestly tell you.
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Cognitive profile
Report structure
Attention
Focused attention, divided attention, inhibition, shifting, updating
Memory
Short-term, working, phonological, visual short-term, non-verbal, contextual, recognition
Reasoning
Planning, estimation, processing speed
Perception
Visual, auditory and spatial perception, visual scanning, width of field of view
Coordination
Hand-eye coordination, response time
Illustration of the report structure. Bar lengths are decorative and do not represent anyone's results.
What is measured
Five domains, twenty-three abilities
A single global score is a headline, not an explanation. The value of a cognitive profile is that it says which components carried the result and which held it back. Each domain below links to how it works and to the programme that trains it.
Memory
Retaining new information and recovering what is already stored. Seven separate abilities sit underneath the word, and they can differ widely within the same person.
Short-term, working, phonological, visual short-term, non-verbal, contextual, recognition
Reasoning
The executive functions: ordering, relating, planning and adapting. What lets you reach a goal even when the original plan stops working.
Planning, estimation, processing speed
Perception
Interpreting what reaches the senses and integrating it into a coherent whole, using prior knowledge of the world.
Visual, auditory and spatial perception, visual scanning, width of field of view
Coordination
Producing precise, ordered movement and keeping it in step with what the senses report. The cerebellum's contribution to everyday competence.
Hand-eye coordination, response time
Auditory perceptionContextual memoryDivided attentionEstimationField of viewFocused attentionHand-eye coordinationInhibitionNamingNon-verbal memoryPhonological memoryPlanningProcessing speedRecognitionResponse timeShiftingShort-term memorySpatial perceptionUpdatingVisual perceptionVisual scanningVisual short-term memoryWorking memory
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Assessment
The assessment batteries
A battery is a fixed set of tasks assembled to answer a particular question. The general battery gives a complete profile; the focused ones spend more of the session on a single domain; the population-specific ones are built around the demands and the age range of a particular group.
General
Cognitive Assessment Battery (CAB)
The complete profile: five domains and twenty-three abilities, plus a wellbeing questionnaire. Roughly 30 to 40 minutes.
See it →Brief battery (Mini CAB)
A shorter screening when a full profile is not needed or attention span is limited.
See it →General battery without questions
The same task battery with the wellbeing questionnaire removed, for research designs that collect that information separately.
See it →Focused on one domain
Memory (CAB-ME)
Spends more of the session on the seven memory abilities.
See it →Concentration (CAB-AT)
Focused on the attention components and inhibitory control.
See it →Reasoning (CAB-RS)
Weighted towards planning, estimation and processing speed.
See it →Perception (CAB-PC)
Visual, auditory and spatial perception and visual scanning.
See it →Coordination (CAB-CO)
Hand-eye coordination and response time under varying demand.
See it →Reading comprehension (CAB-RC)
The abilities that underpin reading and understanding text.
See it →Built for a specific group
Driving (DAB)
Built around the cognitive demands of driving: divided attention, estimation, response time.
See it →Academic, K-12 (CAB K-12)
Age-appropriate tasks and norms for school-age children and adolescents.
See it →Over 65 (CAB-AG)
Task presentation and norms adapted to older adults.
See it →Attention difficulties in children (CAB-ADHD)
Designed around the attentional demands relevant to children with concentration difficulties. Not a diagnostic instrument.
See it →Dyslexia (CAB-DX) and dyscalculia (CAB-DC)
Profiles built around the abilities most involved in reading and in numerical processing.
See it →Other population-specific batteries
Further batteries exist for adults living with depression, insomnia, fibromyalgia, Parkinson's disease and chemotherapy-related cognitive complaints.
See it →Batteries named after a clinical population are cognitive assessment tools designed with the demands of that group in mind. They do not diagnose the condition they are named after, and a result is never a diagnosis on its own.
For professionals
CAB PRO, the professional battery
The Cognitive Assessment Battery (CAB)® PRO is the version built for clinicians and researchers. It is an FDA-registered Class II SaMD device, registration number 3017544020, and comprises a set of validated neuropsychological tasks that measure twenty-two cognitive abilities across the five domains.
It can be administered face to face in a clinic or laboratory, or remotely from the person's home, and takes roughly 30 to 40 minutes. It produces a full report covering the cognitive profile, wellbeing indicators, warning signs and analysis. It is intended as a support to professional judgement, never as a substitute for clinical diagnosis.
Who uses it
Healthcare
Clinicians assessing and monitoring patients, with reports designed to be shared and explained.
Learn more →Academic research
Validated batteries and exportable data for study designs that need standardised cognitive measures.
Learn more →Education
Schools and learning specialists profiling how students learn and where support is needed.
Learn more →Clinical trials
Remote, repeatable cognitive endpoints with consistent administration across sites.
Learn more →Training
How cognitive training works
Training is not a set of exercises you get through. It is a loop: measure, prioritise the weak components, practise them at the edge of your current ability, measure again. The patented Individualised Training System is what closes that loop automatically.
1
Measure
An initial assessment establishes the baseline profile across the five domains. Without a baseline, later change is uninterpretable.
2
Prioritise
The system weights the programme towards the abilities that came out weakest, rather than giving everyone the same sequence of exercises.
3
Adapt
Difficulty adjusts within each session and across sessions, so the demand tracks your current ability instead of drifting into comfort.
Programmes by need
Cognitive stimulation
Stimulation and training are not the same thing
Cognitive training pushes a specific ability towards its ceiling with adaptive difficulty. Cognitive stimulation keeps a broad range of abilities active and engaged, with the priority on participation and enjoyment rather than on maximising a score. The distinction matters most in older age and in rehabilitation contexts, where sustained engagement is the harder problem.
Tracking over time
What repeated measurement can and cannot show
The difficulty with tracking cognition is that people get better at the test before they get better at anything else. Practice effects are largest on the first few repetitions and strongest on exactly the tasks that feel most like games. Anyone watching a score over weeks is watching two things move at once.
- 1Measure under the same conditions: same time of day, same device, comparable sleep. Time of day alone moves attention scores more than most interventions do.
- 2Leave longer between measurements than feels natural. Weekly is usually too often for anything except tracking familiarity with the task.
- 3Watch the profile across domains, not the headline number. One component can improve while another declines and the total barely moves.
- 4Expect a band, not a point. Day-to-day variation in the same person is larger than most of the changes people hope to detect.
- 5Note what else changed. Sleep, illness, medication, stress and caffeine account for a great deal of the movement attributed to training.
On the evidence: improvement on the trained task and on closely similar tasks is well established. Transfer to unrelated abilities or to everyday function is weaker and still actively debated in the research literature. That debate is live in both directions, and any claim beyond the trained task deserves to be read carefully, including ours.
Exercises
The exercises, by the ability they work on
A sample of the catalogue. Each exercise adapts its difficulty to your performance, which is what keeps the demand where it does something rather than where it feels comfortable.
Credibility
Why these numbers mean something
A cognitive score is only as good as the group it is compared against and the reliability of the task that produced it.
3,188,798
Completed assessments in the normative database, which is what allows a result to be read against age-matched peers rather than in the abstract.
Class II SaMD
CAB PRO is an FDA-registered device for use by qualified health professionals. Registration number 3017544020.
Published paradigms
Tasks derive from the Wechsler scales, Stroop, the Continuous Performance Test, the Tower of London, the Corsi blocks, the Boston Naming Test and others.
What this is and is not. CogniFit assessments measure performance on cognitive tasks and support the understanding of cognitive wellbeing. They do not provide a medical diagnosis, and a score is not a clinical finding. In a clinical setting, results interpreted by a qualified professional can help decide whether further neuropsychological evaluation is warranted. Training and stimulation programmes are designed to encourage general cognitive health and are not a treatment for any condition. If something about your cognition worries you, speak to a health professional.
Questions
Common questions
What is a cognitive assessment?
A standardised set of tasks that measures how well specific mental abilities are performing, and reports each result against a normative sample matched for age. CogniFit measures five domains, attention, memory, reasoning, perception and coordination, broken down into twenty-three individual abilities.
What are the five cognitive domains?
Attention, memory, reasoning, perception and coordination. Each groups several individual abilities: attention covers focused and divided attention, inhibition, shifting and updating, while memory covers seven separate memory types, and so on.
How long does an assessment take?
The general battery takes roughly 30 to 40 minutes, completed online in one sitting. Shorter batteries exist for screening, and domain-focused batteries spend more of the session on a single area.
What is the difference between CAB and CAB PRO?
CAB is the assessment available to individuals and families. CAB PRO is the professional version for clinicians and researchers, an FDA-registered Class II SaMD device, with a fuller report and features for managing patients or study participants.
What is the difference between cognitive training and cognitive stimulation?
Training targets a specific ability with adaptive difficulty and aims to push it towards its ceiling. Stimulation keeps a broad range of abilities active with the priority on engagement and participation. Both have their place; they answer different questions.
Does brain training make you smarter?
Practice reliably improves performance on the trained task and on closely related tasks. Transfer to unrelated abilities or to general intelligence is weaker and actively debated in the research literature. Anyone claiming otherwise is ahead of the evidence.
Can a cognitive assessment diagnose a condition?
No. A score describes performance relative to a matched group. Diagnosis is a clinical judgement made by a qualified professional from history, examination and multiple sources of evidence. Assessment results can support that process but never replace it.
Who can be assessed?
The general battery is designed for children from seven years old through to older adults. Children under 16 use CogniFit through a family or professional account.
How often should I reassess?
Less often than most people expect. Practice effects are largest on the first few repetitions, so frequent retesting mostly measures familiarity with the task rather than any underlying change. Leave enough time between measurements for real change to occur.
Start with a measurement, not a guess
One session gives you a profile across five domains and twenty-three abilities, compared against your own age group and ready to track from then on.