Michael Smietana

Cogmed develops and markets software-based working memory training products for improved attention. The company's products are a unique combination of breakthrough research, original software design and effective support methodology. Cogmed is a privately held company founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 2001. The founders are neuroscientists at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and game developers. The firm's main markets are the United States and Sweden. In 2006 Cogmed established its U.S. offices in Naperville and Illinois. Cogmed works with practices across the United States and Canada. It also has partners in Japan, in several European countries, and around the world. Cogmed is involved in evidence-based cognitive training. The firm has research results, scientifically validated, showing that Cogmed training provides substantial and lasting improvements in attention, for people with poor working memory, in all age groups. That makes Cogmed's products the best-validated products on the market.