We are constantly programming our brains, which are the main computer that drives so many functions of the body and mind and is a computer we use to train our thoughts and actions, mostly unconsciously.
For many reasons, we repeat the same routines, whether a thought process, habit or unconscious movements. For many reasons the brain may have gotten into the habit of not paying attention or misreading letters, and with repartition, this habit merely gets stronger by reinforcing the brains programming.
Cognitive problems arise because the appropriate amount and type of attention is not paid to the stimuli in front of us e.g. memory decline often occurs because people are not in the habit of rehearsing their memories and, as a result, memories fade because they are effectively neglected.
The same happens with reading and speech. Sometimes the brain gets used to skipping past words or misperceiving them and over time, this becomes a habit. The habit itself can become a self-fulfilling prophecy unless one works hard to change the brains programming. For example, stuttering each time you see a certain letter configuration, you are not going to miraculously stop stuttering unless you get the brain to pay attention and reprogram it. In these cases a change is needed in the way the stimulus is processed. This then becomes a matter of attention and focus.
FORBRAIN helps Improve Speech, Attention and Memory
Forbrain works by forcing the brain out of it’s usual habits and getting it to pay more attention and greater focus. This is done via bone-conduction (rather than air conduction) and changes the way the stimuli signals reach the brain. As a result, the user hears his or her speech quite differently.Also, the gating system used varies and amplifies frequencies that alsp demand attention and focus. In this way Forbrain can get the brain to pay attention with greater focus to what is being said , including words that the user is reading out loud. In short, Forbrain significantly changes attention and focus, which allows for old listening, reading and speech habits t be replaced by more effective ones.
Capitalizing on bone conduction, Forbrain® headphones employ a cutting edge, proprietary technology. Unlike other headphones. Forbrain uses a patented electronic device that amplifies and patterns the user’s voice. By improving the perception of the voice, Forbrain® works simultaneously on all aspects of the audio-vocal loop. Forbrain® gives the nervous system a solid sensory workout.
Forbrain® sharpens the user’s entire auditory system. Furthermore, it improves speech, fluency, attention, memory, focus, coordination, and many other sensory functions. And the result? You have more self-confidence and energy, homework becomes easier, and life is more fun. For everyone, use it a few minutes per day. For all ages, from early language development (the first sounds) to 99-year-olds, on your own or with parents, therapists, educators, or coaches, you only need to speak or read aloud few minutes per day to stimulate the brain and re-experience this training. Forbrain will progressively and continuously retrain and stimulate your brain.
How it Works
Air Conduction Canal
The sound starts its journey when captured by your outer ears, the two formations on either side of your head, traveling in air through several structures within the ear, then translated by your nervous system and your brain for use as information to live in the world. In those with normal hearing, sound waves enter the outer ear, travel through the middle ear to the ossicles, three small bones, which transmit sound vibrations to the cochlea vestibule nerve in the inner ear. The cochlea vestibule’s job is to convert these sounds into electrical impulses and send them along the auditory nerve to the brain.
Bone Conduction Canal
There is another fascinating way our body processes sound. Sound waves are also transmitted through the bones in our heads! When our bones vibrate, the sound is sent directly to the cochlea vestibule nerve in the inner ear. This sound transmission directly through our bones is similar to traveling through the eardrum and middle ear. This vibration also creates nerve impulses and connects sounds to our brains. This is called bone conduction! In Forbrain® the amplified bone conduction and natural air conduction work with an individual’s voice to process information more clearly and understand communications better.
The Audio-Vocal Loop or Auditory Feedback Loop
This is the natural process by which every individual perceives, analyzes assimilate and continuously adjusts the information individually received and produced through sound. To function properly, this audio-vocal loop draws on the abilities of auditory discrimination, phonological awareness, and integration of rhythm that each person activates effortlessly. These skills are natural to human function and go far beyond speech. They are necessary for all learning processes.
What it helps with
Reading, Writing
With the clarity of sound reception and efficient processing, certainly, you increase the ability to comprehend words, phrases, and paragraphs. A renewed ease in reading stimulates your brain and motivates you to read more. Speaking and reading aloud with the Forbrain® microphone strengthens your reception and energizes and motivates you. At the same time, with an increase in processing, words flow more easily and you are able to write creatively.
Verbal or Short-Term Memory
Repetitive use of your voice exercises your brain. As a result, it taps into the areas of the Cochlea that connect through auditory pathways to your verbal and short-term memory. When you use Forbrain® regularly as you speak aloud or read aloud, your own voice activates these auditory pathways in your brain and you are able to access your memory more easily. Daily use of Forbrain® supports improved memory.
Attention, Ability to Stay on Task
Very often attention challenges arise when a person struggles with the reception of sound. Through heightened bone conduction, Forbrain® focuses your attention on a subject thus, it is stimulating you to follow through in completing a thought, sentence or project. Exercising your own voice energizes you to complete your seat work at school or finish a project at work.
Concentration or Focus (follow-through)
Does your mind race or work non-stop? Do you find you are always thinking and find it hard to go to sleep? Through the use of the fine-tuned, high-quality Forbrain® microphone, your own voice corrals your thoughts to focus on a task at hand, helping to stay on task and follow-through. Consistent use of Forbrain® improves focus so you begin to concentrate better throughout your day.
Speech, Pronunciation, Fluency
It is mainly through bone conduction that pronunciation process is achieved. Construction of pronunciation skills and awareness of speech clarity evolves from bone conduction which is itself a prerequisite to phonological awareness or awareness of language. Phonological awareness is the ability to consciously play with foundational sounds of your own language in order to form a chain of articulated sounds. Reading development strongly depends on the emergence of phonological awareness. It is a prerequisite to reading access. Bone conduction plays a key role in the emerging system of the phonological loop which is responsible for the circulation of stored verbal information. This process prevents language decline developing not only auditory verbal memory but also inner speech and verbal fluency.
Motivation, Self-Esteem, Self-Confidence
As humans, we respond to sounds in our environments. When those sounds introduce too many thoughts in our brains, they cause our nervous systems to over-react and we feel less confident, eroding our self-esteem and motivation. Forbrain® works directly on your nervous system by focusing on your voice and reducing the sound clutter in your brain. Thus, it settles the nervous system and improves confidence, motivating you to succeed and take action.