written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . october 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message axon sports industry sports training cognitive studies founded 2010 area served worldwide website http www.axonsports.com axon sports llc produces cognitive training products for athletes . 1 these tools are intended to accelerate skill acquisition and develop cognitive skills for success on the field of play . axon sports training products have been adopted by professional teams prominent usa ncaa division i athletic departments and elite high performance training centers in both the united states and the united kingdom . contents 1 company history and corporate structure 2 cognitive training 3 axon science board 4 partnerships 5 references 6 external links company history and corporate structure edit axon sports llc launched in august 2010 in the united states as a joint venture between cogstate ltd and quixote investment a portland oregon based investment group . 2 their first product was the computerised cognitive assessment tool ccat an online product to help medical practitioners determine whether an athlete had suffered concussion and to assist them in making return to play decisions . 3 the ccat has been adopted by three major professional leagues in the united states as well as rugby football union rugby league football the australian football league and the professional jockeys association . at the consumer level many school districts youth sports associations and leading medical providers use the ccat to safeguard the cognitive health of athletes of all ages and further prevention of concussions in sport . 4 5 in 2011 cogstate acquired the remainder of the shares of axon sports from quixote investment making axon a wholly owned but independently operated subsidiary of cogstate . cognitive training edit axon sports cognitive training products are grounded in principles of neuroscience . 6 current products focus on the development of sport specific high speed decision making e.g. axon sport baseball hitting assessment . 7 through high speed repetition occlusion and expert feedback the products are intended to help athletes accelerate development of cognitive skills . 8 the principles of pattern recognition chunking and the automatization of decision making are all established pillars of expert performance . 7 axon has also released two ipad apps axon athletic brain trainer one for baseball 9 and the other for american football . 10 axon science board edit axon s product development is guided by the neuroscientists and learning specialists on the axon science board . current board members 11 include dr. peter fadde associate professor of learning systems design & technology southern illinois university 12 dr. scott frey director brain imaging center adjunct professor in the departments of neurology university of missouri dr. len zaichkowsky professor of education and graduate medical sciences boston university dr. maruff chief science officer cogstate and professor centre for neuroscience university of melbourne dr. paul ward professor of applied cognitive psychology university of huddersfield partnerships edit axon sports is partnered with a wide variety of organizations ranging from high performance training centers sports equipment companies and several sporting organizations and governing bodies . partners as of 2013 13 include athletes performance inc. glaxosmithkline easton and us youth soccer . 14 references edit http www.stack.com 2011 04 11 axon sports concussion baseline testing giveaway company overview of axon sports llc http investing.businessweek.com research stocks private snapshot.asp privcapid 108960892 louey andrea ; maruff paul ; cromer jason a 2013 . detecting suboptimal effort in concussion management settings with the axon sports ccat . br j sports med . 47 e1 . doi 10.1136 bjsports 2012 092101 .38 . retrieved 23 april 2016 . cogstate launches axon sports concussion product 25 august 2010 http library.cogstate.com public asxrels axon launch aug 2010.pdf sport axon 25 august 2010 . axon sports ccat system now available to assess cognitive function in children . news medical life sciences & medicine . retrieved 23 april 2016 . http theconcussionblog.com 2011 02 01 axon sports a b belling patrick k ; sada jason ; ward paul 12 june 2015 . assessing hitting skill in baseball using simulated and representative tasks pdf . 12th international naturalistic decision making conference . retrieved 23 april 2016 . myerberg paul 24 august 2014 . using technology to make college football better faster safer . usa today . retrieved 23 april 2016 . patrick luke . axon athletic brain trainer train your sports brain and train it hard . the iphone app review . retrieved 23 april 2016 . http axonsports.com potential about axon.cfm axon sports science board accessed 23 october 2013 http axonsports.com science board http bleacherreport.com articles 1087315 baseball pitch recognition featured at mit sloan sports analytics conference axon sports partners accessed 23 october 2013 http axonsports.com partners http www.usyouthsoccer.org news us youth soccer and axon sports bring affordable concussion management to leagues teams and clubs external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title axon sports & oldid 735390686 categories companies established in 2010hidden categories articles with a promotional tone from october 2013all articles with a promotional tonepages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 20 august 2016 at 11 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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