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Package Contents

64 programs for testing and training, each with several variants for visomotor, comprehension, reaction, vigilance, memory, language, intellectual and professional skills. Tasks can be edited and expanded.

Applications

CLINICAL: disturbances in performance and motivation, e.g. in the context of functional psychoses and organic brain syndromes.

REHABILITATION: initial orientation, prognosis and initial training, e.g. occupational therapy.

RESEARCH: e.g. time series in the context of evaluative studies.

EDUCATION: e.g. Special Needs Education.

IN THE HOME: Individual training can be continued with the HOME Version.

Training Oriented

the program can be used with add-on learning demonstrations, help with solutions, levels of difficulty, explanation of results, repetition options and adaptive task series, i.e. difficulty of tasks based on previous performance. The sequence of exercises can be made dependent on specific criteria.

Test Oriented

The program can be used with standard settings derived from the normative values provided in some sub-programs.

Motivation

wide-ranging content and difficulty levels, entertaining initial exercises, help with solutions, learning demos and explanations of results, realistic feedback, accessible comparative scores and user-selected and user-controlled exercises.

Score Reporting

is automatic, differentiated and user-selectable. Overall scores, performance, time and course scores, scores for individual exercises, graphic profiles written to disk, screen or printer. Group statistics are available in the Professional Version.

Comparative Scoring

can be set to update average scores and best scores automatically. The supervisor can decide whether clients see all scores, no scores or only their own score.

Norms

Norms derived from non-patients and various diagnostic groups are available for many exercises and are continuously updated using data from several centers. The Professional Version supports user-defined norms.

Clinically tested

since 1986 in neurological, psychiatric and rehabilitation centers in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. Reports confirm high acceptability, improved skills, and the development of realistic self-assessment.

Scientific

data derived from patients with various problems at several centers shows significant and relevant progress in learning and a correlation between test-results and success in the work environment.

Versatile

exercises can be varied by random routines and user-edited exercise material. Instructions, timing, type and scope of exercise series, as well as the exercises themselves can be altered. In the Professional Version user-defined programs and menus can also be linked to COGPACK.

User Friendly

Pull-down Menus. Choice of keyboard or mouse control. On-screen hints and information. Introductory screens before each exercise. Optional trial run. Selected settings are preserved.

Security

is provided by lockable menus, supervisor passwords, elaborate error-routines, optional protection against program interruption.

Documentation

in the manual and on-screen for trainees and supervisors. Editable task files contain formatting information.

Sub-programs

VISOMOTOR SKILLS: Steer, follow or mark a moving figure with the mouse. Divide lines or pies. Reproduce or mirror a drawing. Catch a bouncing ball.

VIGILANCE, COMPREHENSION, REACTION: Scanning, catch a falling star, character recognition. Assembly-line simulation and continuous performance.

LANGUAGE MATERIAL: Use various clues to find words. Questions about text-content. Attribution of quotations to authors or titles to poems. Placing words or syllables in order. Anagrams. Semantic fields. Vocabulary.

MEMORY: remembering series of words, images and labels, patterns, signs, addresses, routes, lively scenes. Various recall and repetition modes.

NUMBERS; LOGIC: mental arithmetic, problems, geometry, numbers and number words, quantities. Simple and deductive comparisons. Complete a block. Continue a series. Connect dots.

EVERYDAY SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, ORIENTATION: Times, dates, the compass; geography, money, weights and measures, road signs, license plates, abbreviations, keyboard, etc.

SPECIAL ELEMENTS: 3-D positioning, color/word interference, mazes, tone and pitch, assumptions about public opinion.

Hardware Requirements

WINDOWS computer with WINDOWS 95 or higher, color monitor, mouse, sound card, and at least 500 MB free space on the hard disk.

Versions

COGPACK Professional contains the Home version, supplementary material, more alteration options, tools, personal data management, and some source files.

COGPACK HOME for individual training in the home. Substantially less scope in tools, personal data management, manual.

Prices	Euro net of tax
COGPACK Professional*	450,00
COGPACK Home*	160,00
Language: DE,ES,FR,IT,NO,NL,PT,US each*	100,00
Additional 1-Station License	150,00
Additional 2-Station License	200,00
Additional 3-Station License	240,00
Additional 4-Station License	270,00
Additional 5-Station License	300,00
Additional 10-Station License = campus- & LAN-license	400,00
Update current Professional Version	100,00
Update current Home Version	50,00
2-Year Update Service	300,00
Additional Manual English or German	13,70

* Prices for the Professional and Home versions include single-station license, one language, one manual, hotline or hotmail advice, delivery to Europe.

19% VAT are added for DE and for EU if no VAT-ID-No. is reported. Euro 12 shipping fee is added for deliveries to outside Europe. Standard format CD. Some language packages still partly incomplete. The use of additional licencies and of Campus licencies is limited for one place with a named postal adress and require a Professional version. Networking in a LAN with additional 10-station license only. Trade prices on request.