Children can learn and re-shape their brains faster than anyone else. Not surprisingly, we’ve found that teenagers who train with the Lumosity brain games improve dramatically. There is also increasing support for the idea that training can help address the cognitive symptoms of ADHD.
Dr. Robert Myers describes some activities that can help a child deal […]
We are pleased to showcase the winner of the Lumosity T-Shirt Contest. After 792 votes for the best t-shirt, Marissa’s smart design, which references memory games in a 9-card layout, won by a convincing margin.
(We’ll have an easy way to purchase this Lumosity shirt soon.)
A few good articles about brain training that featured Lumosity were published in the last couple days:
NY Times: Exercise Your Brain, or Else You’ll…Uh…, by Katie Hafner.
Yahoo! Tech: Brain Game Can Boost IQ…, by Christopher Null.
BC Gaming: Game Review: Lumosity, by Alexandria Jackson.
By Lumos Labs Science Associate Paul Li, MS Neuroscience.
Recently, U.S. News did their cover story on Keeping Your Brain Fit. As you the readers might already know, there are ways to thwart the cognitive decline that often comes with aging, but there is no silver bullet that works every time for each person. It is […]
Brain fitness and cognitive training articles appearing in the past few weeks have prominently featured Lumos Labs. Here are a few of our favorite:
Reader’s Digest: HealthSmart
Dominic Cadden writes about his experience completing the Lumosity training program.
Fox News: Website of the Day
Check out Doug Delony’s broadcast of Lumosity: “Games for a happy Friday”
New Scientist
Graham […]
By Lumos Labs Science Associate Paul Li, MS Neuroscience.
Males are bigger consumers than females when it comes to mainstream video games. A possible reason males enjoy playing (and end up addicted to) video games might be attributed to how the male brain is wired when compared to the female brain, particularly in the reward and […]
Announcing the T-Shirt Design Contest finalists! Congratulations to the 6 designers who made the finals with their impressive shirts. From the submissions received, we selected the best designs so that you (our readers) can vote to pick the winner.
Thanks to everyone who submitted a shirt design. We needed to narrow down the finalists to just […]
Ayumu, a 7-year old chimp living in a lab at Kyoto University, was in the news the last month for his remarkable cognitive performance. In a test of working memory, Ayumu and 5 other chimpanzees were able to outclass college students. Watch him go at it here.
Have you got what it takes to outsmart […]
FreeRice has an addictive little vocabulary test that cleverly aligns your interest in charity and entertaining diversion. The hook is that for each word you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice through United Nations to people without enough to eat.
For those curious whether this is a meaningful amount of rice (I was), I […]