Great video! This video helps me understand why playing Mozak is helpful to the field of neuroscience. I'm intrigued to learn more about the user experience. What do players learn by playing Mozak? The video mentioned that folks of any age can play - Do you have different learning expectations based on age? How do you measure learning?

When players play, they learn what can become fairly advanced skills in tracing and identifying the 3D structures of neurons- the key cells in the brain. Because the task is based in visual perception and not scientific knowledge, it can engage people of all types and ages (from 8-80), depending on how well they can follow 3D shapes. Your own brain's capacity for learning and enhancing your own capacity for spatial resolution can be monitored from one task to the next. Super-learners become our best players, and can be in-demand for labs that need this kind of help.

I'm interested to know more about your users. Have you done research on who uses the game, and what motivates them to participate? 

I'm interested in how you collect the data generated by the players and ensure its accuracy before adding it to your library? thanks!

So there are many of us who are touched in our lives by those who have PTSD, Alzheimer's, epilepsy, and depression.  Are you finding that you have the level of participation that you wish to move forward with finding solutions?  How do you connect with your players?

 Great question. Fundamentally understanding how the structures of distinct cells in the brain change with "disorders" lies in understanding the basis of their intrinsic diversity in the first place. This is not known. Establishing this baseline (the relationship between structure and function) is where we are with Mozak right now. We are undergoing expansion of the program currently and, as we do, we will include more information on the roles played by the different cells being worked on by our players, and their function in the brain. We hope that this will help connect players who are more interested in learning about their brain as they play the game. Thanks for asking!

I'd love to try this! How do players learn about the game?

I visited the website for a little while, and it seems quite user-friendly and with a lot of information handily available. 

    I am curious if you have any information about what kinds of people are participating?  (I am especially thinking about age and education levels).  I could imagine that, for example, retired professionals might really be a valuable candidate pool, whereas high school students perhaps not... I registered, to see what the experience was like, and you don't ask me any questions about myself (except whether I am a neuroscienst — I'm not, I'm an ecologist :)  so I imagine you'd need to do some kind of survey to find out more about your participants.