Researchers: Daragh McDonnell, Phil McDarby, Ed Lalor, Scott Eaton,
James Condron, Rob Burke, Gary McDarby

Make the ultimate Mental Leap - Control your mind to play the game.

Mental Leaps is a game that involves exactly what it says - a mental leap. It looks
and plays like a typical video game but implicit in the game are strategies that
depend entirely on how you are using your mind. It is constructed around a chasing
game strategy. The player is a character called Spreet who is being chased around a maze by a lumbering character called Mawg. The object is to find the exit before you get caught.

Whilst a player is playing the game, behavioural attention is being monitored through a simulated well researched behavioural measure of sustained attention (called the S.A.R.T test) and as you pay more attention, you are rewarded with more visibility in the maze. In addition your EEG is being recorded from three different electrodes and advanced signal processing techniques search for correlations between behavioural attention and cognitive attention. The ultimate objective of the game is to drive the visibilty of the maze by gained control over attention as it manifests itself in the brain signals.