The Peak Achievement Training Method for Assessing a Student's Concentration and Alertness

"The Peak Achievement Trainer offers a real-time assessment of both concentration and alertness/arousal of the user derived by patented and trade secret algorithms from their EEG or electroencephalogram. These measurements can be adapted to provide verymeaningful assessments of student state during any activity involving a computer, as described in Patent #5,983,129. NeuroTek seeks to develop a more portable, affordable, easy to use alternative to the present complete training system, which would beappropriate for both DOD use and further commercialization. The present generation of Peak Achievement Trainer equipment uses three salt-water sponge electrodes on the head, which are connected to a computer serial port via an electronic interface which wepurchase from a third party. Advancing The Peak Achievement Trainer to this level will require further study of electrodes, their placement, EEG signal processing, and alternatives for transferring the EEG information into the computer. NeuroTek willbuild and test electrode alternatives, test amplifiers, and generate cost estimates of hard wired and wireless alternatives. In addition, we will do some initial pilot testing of humans interacting with the PC using the current trainer and develop a planfor more complete validation of the training model we will develop. The present Peak Achievement Trainer is a complete training package based on brainwave biofeedback (also known as EEG