One of the reasons why we value sleep is that getting enough sleep is essential to living a productive life. CogSci Apps co-founders, Luc P. Beaudoin and Brian Shi are cognitive productivity experts. Beaudoin has recently published the second installment of his second book on the subject: Cognitive Productivity with macOS®: 7 Principles for Getting Smarter […]
Back to School is approaching. That means a transition in sleep patterns for children and parents alike! Many parents know all too well that insomnia is not merely an adult’s problem. Some children also have difficulty falling asleep, whether initially or after they wake up prematurely. And when kids can’t sleep, neither can their parents.
We are pleased to note that mySleepButton for iPhone and iPad continues to be rated 5 stars on the App Store, and to have nothing but positive reviews there!
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CogSci Apps benefits from its collaborations with several researchers. Some of our advisors are listed on the CogZest Advisory Board web page. In this post, we would like to acknowledge the contribution of Dr. Sylwia Hyniewska.
Researchers at the University of Montreal will present a paper in Montreal comparing the cognitive shuffle with backward counting. This research was undertaken for several reasons, one of which is that insomnia research has to date assessed surprisingly few deliberate mentation strategies. For example, old techniques such as reading, listening to the radio, and the
We are delighted to announce another CogSci Apps™ Invention for your sleep, well-being and productivity, mySleepButton® 1.4 for iOS, which contains the world’s first personalized body scan meditation pack!
CogSci Apps Corp. is pleased to report that the results of a recent test of the serial diverse imagining technique (used by mySleepButton) will be presented at the joint meeting of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society, SLEEP-2016 Conference in Denver, CO. (June 14, 2016 at 2:00 PM).
Prof. Digdon and her team, of the Psychology Department of MacEwan University (Edmonton Alberta), and Dr. Beaudoin (of Cognitive Science and of Education at Simon Fraser University, and of CogSci Apps Corp.) have recently completed a study of the effectiveness of the Serial Diverse Imagining (SDI) technique used by mySleepButton. 154 participants who complained of
Today (July 24, 2015) at the CogSci 2015 Conference in Pasadena, California, we will be presenting the first set of preliminary data on the technique used by mySleepButton: serial diverse imagining, which is a form of cognitive shuffle. The data are from a study led by Professor Nancy Digdon of MacEwan University (Digdon & Beaudoin,
