JIGAKU JISHU SDN. BHD.

Pinoki Brain Training Method is a brain training method developed in Japan by Dr. Tan Kok Liang (PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Incremental Learning and Biomedical Imaging, Keio University, Japan) upon inspiration by artificial intelligence researcher at Keio University, Master Yuji Kitazawa (M.Sc. Eng.). The goal of Pinoki Brain Training Method is to induce self-taught and self-learning behaviour [自学自習 (“jigaku jishu”) in Japanese] in young children.

Dr. Tan was a straight-A student. Throughout the years of his study, he has developed a method so called Mental Note and he used it to score in examinations. Mental Note is a kind of image-based noting system that uses Photographic Memory. On the other hand, Master Yuji Kitazawa is someone who possesses Perfect Hearing and extremely keen auditory sense. He is able to learn a new language in a short period of time by mimicking sound, accent and speech since young. He could visualise musical notes when he listens to music. The two met in Keio University, Japan, and an exchange of knowledge, methods, experiences, ideas and learning behaviors took place.

From the perspective of neuroscience to artificial intelligence, the subjects of how to make a robot learn and auditory memory had always been the topics of discussion between the two. All of these inspired them to think of the whole mechanism of how a baby, a toddler, a preschooler and eventually a person learn. Meanwhile, the witness of the similar qualities of memory among Dr. Tan himself and other top scholars from around the world at Keio University encouraged him to further analyse the underlying learning behaviour that produces those similar traits of memory, spontaneity and multi-dimensional visualisation particularly when it comes to understanding more abstract knowledge.

With more than 10 years of research, Dr. Tan developed a brain training system, named Pinoki Brain Training Method, that aims at facilitating more frequent and more specific use of the left and right brain. Brain grows by use. Therefore when kids get more opportunities to exercise certain parts of their brain, more synapses will be established especially in, but not limited to, those areas of the brain, and a skill will gradually be developed. However, a skill is different from a ‘neural habit’ or thinking habit. Kids who get to use their brains more regularly through brain ‘workouts’ that are designed to target the different functions of the brain are more likely develop high-mental-function ‘neural habit’. When a high-mental-function ‘neural habit’ is developed, the process of thinking and remembering will become so spontaneous that the ultimate self-taught behaviour will take place automatically.