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Brain Games for Your Site

You can embed mini-versions of Lumosity tests with our new Brain Game Gadgets. An example is below. If you want to have Path Finder on your blog or website, click “Embed” from the widget and follow the instructions.

Path Finder is based on the classic test of executive function, Trail Making, Part B. You can also […]

Your Brain on Coffee

By contributing author Paul Li, a neuroscience graduate student at Columbia.
Coffee is not just a popular beverage–it’s a drug, an addicting habit that many of us partake every morning to begin our day. Considering that most major cities have coffee shops in virtually every street corner, it is not easy to avoid coffee. And maybe […]

Memory Map

Guest author Elizabeth Buchen is a neuroscientist and science writer, and a member of the Lumos Labs science advisory board. Below she describes new research examining how the brain stores a spatial map of the local environment, and how this map might be updated by new information. Visit Madam Fathom to read more about the […]

Play the pain away: Video games for better health

Caveman not smart enough to get schizophrenia

Most of the time it’s a good thing that the human brain has a great ongoing capacity to learn and change. It allows useful adaptation throughout the lifespan and the development of complex skills like language. But it’s possible that this long period of plasticity also exposes the brain to psychiatric illness such as schizophrenia. […]

And the winner is…

Super robot limbs

Oscar Pistorius, who lost both legs as an infant and then began running just 3 years ago, wants a spot in the 2008 Olympic 200m. Amazingly, at 21.58s he’s within 1 second of the qualifying time. He uses artificial limbs called Cheetahs (italicized to indicate speed), which, though they are just passive extensions of his […]

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