System and method for interjecting bilateral brain activation into routine activity

A method of improving brain function by encouraging bilateral brain activation during a routine electronics video activity on a video screen, comprising:

• interrupting the routine electronics video activity, and then
• stimulating a predefined neuro-motor activity of a user in response to an injected visual event produced on the video screen, in which:
• a. the visual event is at least one of (i) a moving visual object and (ii) a stationary visual object produced on the video screen, and
• b. the predefined neuro-motor activity is a predictive user-input response to an interaction on the video screen between the said at least one of (i) a moving visual object and (ii) a stationary visual object and another visual element;
• recording a time characteristic associating a time occurrence of predictive user-input and a time occurrence of the interaction between the visual event and the other visual element indicating a degree of time coordination of the input received from the input device and the interaction and thereby any resulting imbalance between the predictive user-input and the input received, repeating the visual event, interaction, and, user-input, and recording steps a number of times, setting a time duration to elapse before a next interruption of the routine electronics video activity and establishing stimulation content for a next interruption, based on a mathematical analysis of a change in the recorded time characteristic over the repeated steps,
• disabling the interruption to again engage the routine electronics video activity for no more than the set time duration;
• and
• establishing parameters for subsequent bilateral brain activation including at least one of:
• a baseline;
• a screen feature from which moving features split off to stimulate bilateral motor response;
• routine injection timing;
• routine duration;
• and
• different kinds of stimulus including color, saccadic events, movement, sound pursuit or other activity to promote brain symmetry;
• and
• further including at least one of the following steps:
• creating a new base line as parameters for future interruption directions;
• generating new sequences to affect stimulation of bilateral brain activation based upon performance markers of previous results;
• generating screen features to stimulate bilateral response and adjusting future injected events based upon user input following the moving features;
• resetting a future injected events to challenge dissymmetry of hemispheric brain activity based upon bilateral user-input accuracy in performing stimulated neuro-motor activity;
• adjusting content within the future injected events based upon somatosensory feedback data;
• establishing a reset criteria;
• establishing random sequence changes in future injected events;
• adjust the ability level for future injected events;
• resetting subsequent interrupts of the video activity for an injected routine;
• or
• generating a length of an uninterrupted video activity prior to the next injected adjusted event.

A software routine promoting brain symmetry stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium having thereon an audio-video application to facilitate execution of an audio-video presentation on a video screen, and to periodically interrupt the audio-video presentation, comprising:

• an audio-visual application presenting to a user an interactive audio-video presentation on the video screen;
• and
• a brain activation routine periodically injected into the interactive audio-video presentation to change dissymmetry of hemispheric brain activity at least partially caused by the interactive presentation by:
• (1) producing a prominent object on the video screen tending to fixate the user's gaze;
• (2) then, while having the prominent object remaining on the video screen, stimulating a predefined neuro-motor activity of a user in response to a visual event produced on the video screen, in which:
• (a) the visual event is a visual object produced on the video screen in a different location from the prominent object to engage the user's peripheral vision;
• and
• (b) the predefined neuro-motor activity is a user-input responsive to a predicted event on the video screen correlated with the visual object relative to another visual element on the video screen;
• (3) recording and evaluating the user's responses to step (2) relative-to-predicted responses correlated to the predicted event and any resulting change based upon user responses;
• (4) using the evaluation of step (3) to establish when to again initiate subsequent interruptions of the interactive audio-video presentation and to establish parameters for the next brain activation routine to encourage bilateral brain activation;
• changing the parameters for the next brain activation routine and determining when and how to subsequently interrupt the interactive audio-video presentation,
• the parameters including at least one of:
• a baseline;
• a screen feature from which moving features split off to stimulate bilateral motor response;
• routine injection timing;
• routine duration;
• and
• different kinds of stimulus including color, saccadic events movement, sound, pursuit or other activity to promote brain symmetry;
• wherein the step of using the indicator to establish parameters include at least one of:
• creating a new base line as parameters for future run directions;
• generating new sequences to affect stimulation of bilateral brain activation based upon performance markers of previous results;
• generating screen features to stimulate bilateral response and adjusting future injected routines based upon user input following the moving features;
• resetting a future injected routine to challenge dissymmetry of hemispheric brain activity based upon bilateral user-input accuracy in performing stimulated neuro-motor activity;
• adjusting content within the future injected routines based upon somatosensory feedback data;
• establishing a reset criteria;
• establishing random sequence changes in future injected routines;
• adjust the ability level for future injected routines;
• resetting subsequent interrupts of the audiovisual presentation for an injected routine;
• or
• generating a length of an uninterrupted audiovisual presentation prior to the next injected adjusted routine.