As David noted, the idea of programming (as well as "harmonizing") is based on a near total misunderstanding of neurological networks and brain function.  I remember a book titled Writing with the Left Hand that came out in the early 1980s; it was predicated on the notion that the LH (and thus the right hand) is "logical" and dominates thinking and behavior, whereas the RH is creative and artistic but is rendered mute by LH dominance.  Write with the left hand and supposedly one "frees" his or her creativity.  Total nonsense, of course--not only because the corpus callosum connects the two hemispheres but also because they work together continuously, even with regard to language.  Why so many people want to believe differently is a mystery.  But then, there are countless people who believe that the Egyptian pyramids were built by creatures from space, mountains of evidence to the contrary.

That's interesting, but I'm a little bit sceptic about that. Maybe you get some short term results but I don't know what would be the medium to long term results. However your question is a little bit coarse. The training programme consists on what? What are the methods (meditation? stimulation? gaming?), and the variables to characterise academic performance?

It would be interesting to verify this scientifically, though I doubt if two days pre test training is enough to cause an improvment in academic perfomance except if the test subjects are skewed to only include individuals of high intellect, which already would create a  bias.

The Question needs more details about:-

the 2 day training programme?

the people receive the programme.?

Prof. S. EL-Rabaie

Based on the question, I would say that the entire concept is based on a flawed premise: i.e., that the LH and RH can be "trained" to work together.  The reality is that they are in constant communication and already work together, as 30 years of imaging research has demonstrated.

In my opinion, it depends on two things; The type of training? And the intellectual capacities of the person in training !.

The directed practical training are efficient and have a great effect.

Daniel, your question reminds me of a course that professors were required to attend at the Querétaro campus of the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico, in the mid-1980s. The regional rector had become excited about Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and wanted to share his experience. These courses were commonly sold to companies to train (motivate?) their personnel. NLP has since been thoroughly discredited and exposed as a pseudoscience (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming). I don't know if the NLP movement (business?) has anything to do with the case you mention, but there are some similarities, namely a simplification (distorsion?) of neuroscientific research and extraordinary claims made about the effectiveness of brief courses.

As David noted, the idea of programming (as well as "harmonizing") is based on a near total misunderstanding of neurological networks and brain function.  I remember a book titled Writing with the Left Hand that came out in the early 1980s; it was predicated on the notion that the LH (and thus the right hand) is "logical" and dominates thinking and behavior, whereas the RH is creative and artistic but is rendered mute by LH dominance.  Write with the left hand and supposedly one "frees" his or her creativity.  Total nonsense, of course--not only because the corpus callosum connects the two hemispheres but also because they work together continuously, even with regard to language.  Why so many people want to believe differently is a mystery.  But then, there are countless people who believe that the Egyptian pyramids were built by creatures from space, mountains of evidence to the contrary.

The programme is based on concepts such as mid-brain activation, Image Streaming, visualization and several meditation techniques. One outstanding case is a young boy who has since developed the ability to read with eyes closed.

Interesting im assuming that he can recall images within his memory in quick instances, which would be photographic memory.He could just have had the ability before and understood what it was recently.  It just depends on the type of training being done, for some it can make sense in understanding abilities they already had, where as others will have information to help them accuire greater internal understanding. When it comes to scientific proof the outlier doesnt represent the overall percentage of success. It would be interesting to interview the boy to try and understand how he goes about his spacial reasoning for the photographic memory. If he is able to do it consistently with various random texts then it may be interesting to persue but again he could just be a natural. 

Premise: a medical device (a sound neuromodulator via headphone) has been developed to stimulate the synchronization of cortical areas at all frequencies and increase top-down and bottom-up neural communication (EU, US, Int. Pat. Pend.). Effective with psychological, psychiatric and neurological disorders, I also checked with professional sportsmen if listening to this sound stimulus (for 24 min) could increase psychophysical performance in healthy subjects. The results, that have to be confirmed by third parties, seems to confirm the hypothesis. A 45 years old sportsman trained for a month with this device has won the Italian championships of his discipline some months ago. A professional chess player accustomed to train with the computer has done a listening session with the task (after the listening session, within 24 h) to play against one level (of the computer) which he had never won until now. He won in 20 min. A video in italian about the effects on the brain of this sound stimulation is available at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD1hdncE-hc

Bibliography also in english is available here:

http://www.avsresearch.org/Pubblicazioni.html

and here: http://www.avsresearch.org/HE-PAT.html

So, the answer to the question above mentioned is in my opinion yes. The performance improvement is not stable until the subject does not repeat the listening to the sound stimulus for at least 6-8 sessions.

Show me an experiment that have shown that.

To my knowledge, this program is rather problematic. As already mentioned, it has been proved that both hemispheres cooperate during various academic tasks.

And as far as i know such rapid changes definitely need more than two days to establish.

Maybe i miss something

Soledad, here are a few representative studies.  There are literarily thousands of studies demonstrating coordinating of the hemispheres at all levels.  The journals referenced here will provide a good starting point for exploring this area of research further.

James

1.  Narain, et al. (2003).  Defining a self-lateralized response specific to intelligible speech using fMRI.  Cerebral Cortex, 13, 1362-1368.

2.  Davis & Johnsrude. (2003).  Hierarchical processing in spoken language comprehension.  Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 3423-3431.

3.  Abrams, et al. (2013).  Multivariate activation and connectivity patterns discriminate speech intelligibility in Wernicke's, Broca's, and Geschwind's areas.  Cerebral Cortex, 23, 1703-1714.

4.  Vinckier, et al.  (2007).  Hierarchical coding of letter strings in the ventral stream: Dissecting the inner organization of the visual word-form system.  Neuron, 55, 143-156.

 Thanks for the information , James. 

"I don't know if the NLP movement (business?) has anything to do with the case you mention, but there are some similarities, namely a simplification (distorsion?) of neuroscientific research and extraordinary claims made about the effectiveness of brief courses."

Perfect.

There are a number of 'brain training' courses out there that appear to be businesses based on distortion of science, conceived by the disingenuous.

agree with what is said above - one needs to examine carefully such claims, in many cases they are not supported by any evidence; we have found an improvement in attentional switching after a one-week intensive language course, but after 9 months it lasted only in those who practised for at least 5 hours per week:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0153485

One of the more interesting features of the brain is that, as Gerry Leisman indicated, it changes with use, pruning some connections and creating new ones.  Optogenetic stimulation, for example, has been shown to stimulate cell growth in the hippocampus.  The neuronal recycling process appears to have modified the left lateral occipitotemporal sulcus to facilitate reading.  Given the remarkable advances in understanding neural connections and brain function over the last 30 or so years, it is disappointing that so many people cling to unsupported and unsupportable ideas about cognitive function.