Everyday tasks like driving and using smartphones require cognitive-motor integration (CMI). Disruptions from injury or aging lead to clumsiness and confusion. Measuring CMI objectively has been challenging. NERON breaks it down into two brain domains: Agility and Adaptivity. Agility is the brain's ability to execute movements quickly without sensory feedback. Adaptivity reflects how well the brain adjusts movements when conditions change, maintaining accuracy and control.
NERON is a groundbreaking, touchscreen-based neurocognitive assessment technology platform that makes the invisible visible. It objectively quantifies the brain's ability to plan and execute movements when the visual guidance is indirect—like using a mouse, a remote control, or a surgical instrument.
NERON deconstructs Cognitive-Motor Integration into two primary brain domains, each linked to specific neural networks that highlight the brain's Agility and Adaptivity.
Developed through rigorous, multi-university research collaborations over decades, NERON provides a sensitive, objective measure for conditions where cognitive-motor integration is compromised.
Brain Agility measures to the brain's ability to rapidly initiate and execute a movement using a pre-planned motor command, without relying on moment-to-moment sensory feedback. These movements are fast, decisive, and largely completed before corrective information from the senses can influence them.
Prepare a movement in advance
Launch that movement with speed and confidence
Execute it cleanly in a single, continuous action
Rely on internal models rather than slow corrective loops
Brain Agility reflects the integrity of neural systems that support rapid, automatic motor actions, necessary for activities of daily living.
High Agility Indicates
Strong feedforward motor planning
Efficient neural pathways between the cortex, cerebellum, and motor systems
The ability to react quickly in dynamic or unpredictable environments.
Low Agility Indicates
Delayed reaction times
Hesitation or fragmented movement
Over-reliance on feedback corrections,
Difficulty with fast, accurate, goal-directed actions.
Neural Agility Systems
Cerebellum - internal models, timing
Premotor Cortex - movement planning
Primary Motor Cortex - movement initiation
Basal Ganglia - movement selection, and initiation speed
Brain Adaptivity measures the flexibility of the cognitive-motor system, how well the brain can modify a planned action while still maintaining accuracy and control. Brain Adaptivity combines feedback from the brain's neuroplastic response and precision change control to measure the brain's ability to adjust without losing accuracy. Brain Adaptivity is essential for performing activities of daily living including:
How quickly the brain detects errors or changes
How effectively it modifies the movement plan
How well it learns and improves across repetitions
How accurately the corrected movement is executed
How stable and reliable the adjustments are
How well spatial and temporal accuracy is preserved during adaptation
High Adaptivity Indicates
Strong cognitive flexibility
Rapid error correction capability
Efficient updating of internal models
Stable performance even under unpredictable conditions
Low Adaptivity Indicates
Difficulty adjusting to new rules or spatial mappings
Overcorrection or repeated errors
Slow learning
Reduced fine-motor accuracy when conditions shift
Neural Adaptivity Systems
Cerebellum - error detection, timing, internal model updating
Prefrontal Cortex - cognitive flexibility, rule switching
Parietal Cortex - visuomotor integration
Basal Ganglia - reinforcement learning, strategy selection
BrainFIT™ Score
A single, easy-to-understand score that reflects today’s brain performance, compared to past results and current Brain Dynamics Zone.
Brain Signature
A detailed view of how the brain controls movement, revealing hidden patterns in coordination, adaptability, and brain–body communication that aren’t visible in traditional tests.
Progress Tracking
Visual tracking of brain performance over time, revealing trends, improvements, or early changes in Brain Dynamics.
Brain Dynamics Zones
A clear performance range that shows where the brain function falls today from Critical to Optimal, and how it changes over time.
NERON analysis outputs a 3D Brain Signature, a graphical depiction of brain capacity in Agility, Adaptivity, BrainFIT Scores and Brain Dynamics Zone the missing insight in neurocognitive assessment. A direct window into the critical link between thought and action.
NERON has applications for assessing neurodegenerative disease, aging cognitive function, fatigue, high cognitive load, substance abuse, early-onset dementia, detecting concussion, return to work/ play readiness, and general health and fitness screening. NERON is used as a preventative, early detection and performance-based solution
Real World Applications
Concussion evaluation and return-to-play decisions
Early detection of neurodegenerative risk (MCI / Alzheimer’s)
Monitoring recovery and treatment response
Occupational safety: return-to-work readiness
Research endpoints for clinical trials