Neurohacking Experiments - Cognitive Battery Analysis Breakdown

Here is a comparison of the results from the two Cognitive Battery Assessments I did before and after the 3 month Neurohacking Experiments:

DEDUCTIVE REASONING
13% - 83%
Percentage Change = 70%
refers to the core cognitive ability to apply rules to information in order to arrive at a logical conclusion.  




RESPONSE INHIBITION
74% - 81%
Percentage Change = 7%
refers to the ability to concentrate on relevant information in order to make a correct response despite interference or distracting information.

Working Memory
53% - 89%
Percentage Change = 36%
refers to the ability to temporarily hold information in memory, and strategically manipulate or update it based on changing circumstances or demands.

Visual Spatial Working Memory
24% - 48%
Percentage Change = 24%
refers to the ability to temporarily hold information in memory, and manipulate or update it based on changing circumstances or demands.

Planning
37% - 86%
Percentage Change = 49%
refers to the ability to act with forethought and sequence behaviour in an orderly fashion to reach specific goals.

Episodic Memory
15%- 53%
Percentage Change = 38%
refers to the ability to remember and recall specific events, paired with the context in which they occurred, such as identifying when and where an object was encountered.



Spatial Short-Term Memory
42% - 66%
Percentage Change = 24%
refers to the cognitive system that allows for temporary storage of spatial information in memory. Spatial short-term memory deals with the relationships between objects in space.

Attention
71% - 36%
Percentage Change = 35%
refers to the ability to muster mental concentration and focus in order to monitor for a specific stimulus or difference.

Verbal Reasoning
62% - 55%
Percentage Change = 13%
refers to the ability to quickly understand and make valid conclusions about concepts expressed in words.

Verbal Short-Term Memory
33% - 6%
Percentage Change = 27%
refers to the cognitive system that allows for temporary storage of information like numbers or words in memory in a specific order

Mental Rotation
28% - 6%
Percentage Change = 22%
refers to the ability to efficiently manipulate mental representations of objects in order to make valid conclusions about what objects are and where they belong

Visuospatial Processing
87% - 27%
Percentage Change = 60%
refers to the ability to effectively process and interpret visual information, such as complex visual stimuli and relationships between objects.

AREAS OF IMPROVEMENT
Top = Pre-Neurohacking
Bottom = Post-Neurohacking

AREAS OF RETROGRESSION

This is just a breakdown of the results and the percentage changes that occurred pre & post the Neurohacking Experiments.

A key concept to consider is that with neurohacking and attempting to improve your cognitive function, during the period of growth you may actually see a reduction/decrease/lull in some areas as conditions are improving. I like to think of it similar to a muscle group where following training there is soreness and pain during the recovery process that may seem to hinder or reduce your mobility/movement. Just because there are wild improvements or wild retrogression in certain areas it doesn’t mean these will sustain long term. Of course further testing would need to be done to get more conclusive information (I would like to see another test done 3 months after no Neurohacking and even every 3 months following) but in general I believe this displays that with Neurohacking and the factors I implemented during those 3 months (like meditation, nootropics, mindfullness, brain games, etc) quantifiable changes occur in the brain in many different areas as these results display after completing this gamified assessment.