Memory Profile: an adaptive trainer for five kinds of memory
RheumaView projects usually examine how structured measurement changes what a physician can see on an image. Memory Profile applies the same discipline to something every reader owns. It is now live — free, in your browser, no account — at research.rheumaview.com/memory-trainer-pro.
Five systems, one starting map
Memory is not a single skill. The number you hold while dialing, the face you match to a name, the route you retrace to a parked car — these run on different processes, and they don’t weaken or tire at the same rate. Averaging them into one score hides exactly the information you’d want.
Memory Profile opens with a starting map: twenty-five short probes across five kinds of memory tasks — number span (reversed at higher levels), simultaneous spatial patterns, word recognition against related lures, symbol-pair binding, and exact sequences. It takes about five minutes, and a few misses along the way are expected: they are how the map finds your level.
Training that aims itself
Every daily session is composed around whatever ran lower on your map, and the plan is shown before you begin — Verbal ×4 · Sequence ×3 · the rest ×1–2, nothing to configure. Difficulty moves one step at a time, and after a miss you see the correct answer: the actual pattern, the exact order, the pair you dropped.
If your answers become less consistent, the session offers a pause instead of pushing on — and it judges consistency only against your own earlier trials of the same task type. Sessions end at about five minutes by design; practicing through fatigue tends to consolidate errors rather than memories.
Verbal memory in your language
The interface runs in twelve languages, and the verbal task treats them the way memory research does: separately. Word banks were built for each language from scratch, down to the categories that make the lures confusable. Your verbal map belongs to the language it was built in; scores are never compared across languages. Switch to a language you haven’t mapped, and the trainer says so plainly and offers a one-minute verbal map instead of showing a false low score.
What it is — and what it isn’t
The radar shows an adaptive training level: personal, relative to each task, useful for steering practice. It is not a diagnostic test — no population norms, no percentiles, no brain age. What reliably improves with practice is performance on the trained tasks themselves, and that is what it reports. Nothing is uploaded anywhere: the profile lives in your browser’s local storage, with one-click export and erase.
Memory Profile is a pilot release. If a task feels confusing, a translation reads oddly, or something simply works well — the comment section on the trainer page is open, and reader notes directly shape the next version.
Open Memory Profile — build your starting mapFree · 12 languages · about five minutes a day · stays on your device