The Lumos Labs team is excited to announce that in the next few weeks Lumosity is getting an upgraded look and lots of new features. We don’t want to spoil the surprise, but keep a watch out for new ways to understand and compare your brain performance, easier navigation, and more helpful tips about how Lumosity can make your life better.
You’ll be getting a sneak peek of new game designs starting next week! We’d love to hear what you think at games@lumoslabs.com.
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will be waiting for it
Great!
I think it’s a good idea to also have access to more detailed statistical data, such as a log of training sessions (date, time, duration, etc). Well, I understand that the cycles of day (morning, afternoon, evening) might influence the performance, and it is something interesting to see.
you guys should incorporate some type of listening/verbal games. i.e. listening to instructions then writing down answer. you could even design based upon a simple series of numbers and letters and repeat by writing down
WORDS/VERBAL GAMES
I have too many problems with verbal games, as they are in English and my natural language is Spanish, I think that prevents reflect a real performance. But mostly because of words, it should be a technologically accessible system of simple translation (lexicon) to the most popular languages such as Spanish. I am a programmer and I know because I say.
it would not necessarily involve language. it could a noises like beeps coming from the right or left speaker then incorporating different sounds and lengths.
so you would tell the program you heard noise x from the right. something along those lines. i am a terrible listener that’s why i would find one of these game interesting
Audio tests would be a great new game — I am musician and this might help my trade.
It would be great an audio test
I love this site, improvements i cant wait to see what lumos has waiting for us!
A game to help imagination and association would be fantastic
I agree. Verbal/word games would be a good way to improve brain functions!
Since i am both adhd, dyslexic and have some sensory integration disorders with visual/auditory information, yet can’t afford the expensive brain games that are out there (they cost over 1000 dollars) i can afford lumosity. So if you were to incorporate games that improved the integration of various stimuli you may just allow me to utilize this brian of mine to its potential and allow me to pursue even more of my dreams like i never could have dreamed before.
I hope there can be games to improve verbal interaction skills for ex. improving sales skills or dealing with with bullies in a workplace,dealing difficult bossy neighbors,
difficult pan handlers,etc.
I come across various difficult people in my life, so games that help people in improving verbal or written with difficult people would be great, if it is possible. I hope the Lumosity team can work on some verbal games for improving interaction skills. Thanks.
Funny observation - Isn’t it interesting that the word “blog” is not an acceptable word in the “Word Bubbles” game?
Wonder if there would be a way to have some contests just for fun?
YES!!!!! I am looking forward to the new changes coming my way! I agree that there is a need for games that help improve visual and audio skills.
Lumosity is awesome! It really does work and it’s helped me so much!
Please don’t make audio games a required component of a workout. It would not be fair to us deaf and hard of hearing people that use Lumosity. Keep it visual since the sense of sight is the most used sense of the five.
Tried some of the upgraded games and while I liked them, my scores declined initially. I think I was distracted by the new look. Guess more cognitive control is needed.
I agree with what Ian is saying. New games will be great as long as you can opt out!
I want to know when all the new games will be incorporated into the Trainer!! It still just shows the same original game set yet you’ve added probably 6 new games since then! Maybe this is different depending on when someone joined but all I get on my trainer are games that were there when I joined about a year ago…
I too would like to see a few audio games BUT it’s best to have the option to turn audio off and still be able to play.
I was recenlty diagnose with Alzheimer’s disease. I had been toying around with your website on an expermental basis.
I feel I am benfiting from it as I use this is service daily.
Thank-you very much !
Today I took out a subscripton to Lumnisoity, largely as a result of an inforamtion piece about this progamg by C.N.N.
Having trouble getting used to the revised speed match… The big green check marks and Red X covers up the sympols and they distract a GREAT deal. Can you guys move the Check marks and Rec X’s off of the symbols when they are displayed. It is VERY BIG distraction for me.
Thanks for looking into this!!!
How about Iphone Apps?
Hi,
I really like all the games posted in your website, and i think it helps a lot to refresh my mind. please add more games often.
I would really love to see ‘Top Score’ for each game on the website to see who is the top scorer for a particular game.
Please add some games which can be played in MULTI PLAYER mode so people compete against each other and not just against a machine.
I agree with the last post. Lets seem some multiplayer and top scores action thanks!
Would you please make this product for us Apple/Mac users…not just PC’s. Also, make it affordable. A payment system would help some of us seniors who are on a budget, therefore under pressure, and probably need this program more than the affluent. Thank you.
Lumosity had got a top score list.
Only i agree with them that they toke it away.
Lumosity is training system people’s brains to do more and especially to make people brain healthy.
If you want to compute just go to other brain stuff and see how are you growing.
For sample go to a memory competition.
I have played more than 20 so called brain Training, or prblem/attention enhancement software programs in the past six months, as I am a Board Cert Professional, and am fascinated at the possibility/probability of promoting Neuronal Branching, or gaining incontrovertable evidence that , intelligence loss, or onset of senility is unavoidable and decline of cortical function awaits us all. I do know an unexercised muscle will atrophy. An exercised , pushed Brain will do what?, with time…. This site is novel attractive, visually pleasing, challenging and rates among the Best I have seen so far. The puzzles/games are imaginitive creative and enjoyable. If you improve, my bet is you will move nigh the summit of the genre, and my yearly subscription will follow closely behind.
I think this site is fantastic. I am really looking forward to the new upgraded look. I would like to see some more verbal and numerical games, similar to the ones on Nintendo DS lite’s brain training. I would also love to see some new games!
Great site. My daughter has been playing these games over a year after her WISC4 came average and guess what? We repeated after a year and she aced it. We did try other things too but I think lumos definitely helped find her weak spots.
Hello all. Do you feel as though your memory is making gains after playing monster in the garden or do you feel that your score is enhanced because you are better able to recognize the pattern the monsters form?
I feel as though my scores increase simply because i can see three monsters and know oh thats going to look like this shape etc…
Hi,
I like the new designs;-) but,
the raindrops game is now jerky when it speeds up:-(
Please could we have a Dual N-Back based game. The limited vocabulary means that language should not be a problem.
Regards Charles
Being that some of us come from a different country, we may not be familiar with the bird names you use in one of your games. Wouldn’t it be best if you use other generic objects that are known worldwide (maybe identifying the flags of the major countries of the world, wonders or landscapes of the world, etc.). Thanks.
I would like to know not just how I compare to myself in previous sessions, but how I compare to others of the same sex, age group, etc. Thanks!
I liked the original color match graphics better than the new and improved look. Ditto for a few other ‘improved’ graphics pages. The original graphics got it right and were superior as far as size and brilliance on the page.
I live in Australia and I love learning about the birds in North America that you use for Birdwatching. This birdwatching game is my favorite game of all. Please always keep the birdwatching game in the set. I would love to see birds of all countries included in the set and with a notation of origin of country. This way we could learn a little bit about the bird. There are a few birds there which would be found in many countries, such as ‘Swan’ and ‘Duck’. However, it would be great to see birds from this continent, such as ‘Kookaburra’ or from New Zealand ‘Kiwi’. I would love to see and learn about birds of all countries. Thanks.
I would like to see an improvement to Monster Garden, as it right now offers little of value for me. I am one step away from memorising everything on the hardest difficulty. Increase the size and thus the monster would be welcoming.
The new graphics are so muddy and lacking in clarity that it’s difficult to see past them to the tasks at hand. It simply won’t do to write that issue off as an added cognitive control problem to the games. I would welcome improvements to the current games and an array of new ones as well, but the old look of the site was far superior.
I would love to see high scores and average scores posted with the games. I can see my own progress but like others, I’m curious where I fall amongst the whole population of Luminosity users.
I also wanted to mention that I find it confusing that the same symbols are now used for Speed Match as you use for Memory Match. My brain doesn’t know which game I am playing when I see the same blue circle, yellow triangle and purple square - do I match the last symbol I saw or the next to last? This is making it difficult to know how strong my skills are in each of those areas.
I would like Lumosity to focus on education and not gaming. If I wanted to play a game I would do Halo 2 on Xbox 360… but I don’t want to game, I want to learn.
I want to express my gratitude for a reasonably priced exercise in brain dexterity which I find helpful and challenging. I have completed 19 sessions and have discussed your site with some professionals working in Senior Services which include the study and treatment of Alziemers. I feel certain that they will find your site superior to anything else out there and affordable for their patients.
I don’t like the new designs at all. Your games are fine, but this website is becoming hard to look at. It looks hokey and corny. By the way, most of your subscribers aren’t here to be entertained, we’re here to exercise our brains in the small amount of time we have to do it. NOW - exercise your own brains and think of new stimulating games, not cheap gimmicks to fool us into thinking you guys are truly dedicated to creating daily mental workouts.
I love the new look of the games! =)
is there a pattern to that little brain in the right corner of the screen? when you click on it, it plays piano keys.
Wow! I love the site and use it b/c I have a TBI. I guess that’s within reason, right? Anyway, I wouldn’t give the negative much attention as the new design is excellent. I’ve used many sites and games, and thus far none are close to this one. Nothing critical, however, I agree that it would be helpful to know by how much I need to improve or how high I need to raise my scores. Once again, exceptional, and thanks.
I very heartily second the request for a dual n-Back game. I’ve suggested it to the Lumosity team by email several times, and most recently the support person said he would pass it along for consideration.
If you would use such a game, I suggest you contact them so that they know there is interest.
If you don’t know what the Dual N-Back task is, see here: http://www.physorg.com/news131901641.html
Here is the abstract from the paper, which showed improvement in fluid intelligence as measured by an IQ test as a result of dual n-back training:
Fluid intelligence (Gf) refers to the ability to reason and to solve new problems independently of previously acquired knowledge. Gf is critical for a wide variety of cognitive tasks, and it is considered one of the most important factors in learning. Moreover, Gf is closely related to professional and educational success, especially in complex and demanding environments. Although performance on tests of Gf can be improved through direct practice on the tests themselves, there is no evidence that training on any other regimen yields increased Gf in adults. Furthermore, there is a long history of research into cognitive training showing that, although performance on trained tasks can increase dramatically, transfer of this learning to other tasks remains poor. Here, we present evidence for transfer from training on a demanding working memory task to measures of Gf. This transfer results even though the trained task is entirely different from the intelligence test itself. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the extent of gain in intelligence critically depends on the amount of training: the more training, the more improvement in Gf. That is, the training effect is dosage-dependent. Thus, in contrast to many previous studies, we conclude that it is possible to improve Gf without practicing the testing tasks themselves, opening a wide range of applications.
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/19/6829.full
I have tried getting used to your new look site and it just hasn’t worked for me.
If you must have a new look site, could you please give us a choice between the original and the new look sites.
You’ve got the intelligence to think up some excellent new games. So I would have thought you could easily have left the old designs as a choice,instead of dropping them all together.
I just got to level nine on birdwatching. My scores are half what they were at level eight because the speed at which the bird is flashed has been reduced too much at one time. I am 77 so restoring processing speed is important for an old brain. The time reduction needs to be less because it is too big a jump for the brain to adapt. More gradual reductions are needed. I’m seeing about 40% of the birds as they are flashed on. Before I saw about 90% even though I wasn’t as acurate in their locations.
I love all the new games! except “by the
rules” I solved it up to a certain point
and got stuck. I could see no pattern, no matter how many times I’ve tried.
I wonder if it would be possible to create a game that incorporates sound. Maybe a series of sounds like: a bell, an animal,
a train whistle, random conversation (like background noise in a restaurant)
traffic noise and so on. each sound
could be presented with a random
image. One would not be aware in advance if we are expected to repeat the images or the series of sounds. Or something like that. I think all our auditory abilities
could use some polishing. I know mine do.
this blog would be easier to follow if the most recent posts were at the top instead of having to scroll down to the bottom every time to read the latest post.
Look forward to the improvements. Some of the comments here are very much true. And I more than agree with Matt Kellog. Please allow access to lower levels in Bird Watching. Improvments shall apply to all skills. Thanks.
I have problem in remembering the names of my colleagues and friends though I know them very well. Name Tag can allow to upload the faces we want to remember and practise. It should allow more number of faces as well. Do these games really help real life challenges? I wish. I saw another website offers games that test the memory for sequence of actions like travelling to various monuments in a city.
I have multiple sclerosis and am trying these Brain Games to see if they can help. I have noticed I have some cognitive dysfunction and all seems slower mentally. So thanks for the website, here’s to new neurones.
Personally, I liked the old design more on some games like topchimp and others. The pastel colors kind of slowed my response and makes it harder to see. I really dislike games like word bubble, as they rely on how much of a vocabulary of the english language you have. More games that focus on what word bubble does but without stressing so much on the need to know a variety of words would be great. It would make this site more universal instead of English-speaker only (btw, I am Portuguese).
I have some reintal degeneration which make Birdwatching difficult to perform. It would be nice to have soem attentional exercises that were not so visual.
Verbal Analogies!
numerical patterns (i.e. 1,4,16,64,? answer 256)
I hope one day I have a photographic memory so I can show off to others and girls
Can lumosity make this possible?
I hope so.
Why do I get the message in the bubbles word making game that I can’t use more than 5 letters?
Some verbal games aimed at improving reading comprehension would be excellent. I also agree that some audio games would be a fine addition, as well as games designed to improve your creativity.
What would be nice are games that feature auditory training, as some others have already mentioned. This type of training, obviously, would round out the cognitive benefits.
In addition, I’d like to see more clear ways to compare one’s performance to others. I know there is a way to get a rough idea.
Still, I think it’s worthwhile to **show the percentile score**, like we’d see with an IQ test or the SAT.
Finally, the look of some of the games has actually been abased by the changes. The memory match game actually got worse! Raindrops’ look was degraded as well. I haven’t seen a positive improvement yet!
I have a hard time imagining the reception has been positive, as they’re pretty clearly less attractive…
Please consider reverting to your previous look.
I am at Level 10 of the birdwatching game. The birds are now coming too fast to even see them. This was my favorite game until I rached this level. Is it possible to slow down Level 10 just a little bit?
I love Lumosity. I am 55 years old and see a clear improvement since I started “playing” daily. I look forward to additional games! Also, as is the case with some others, I preferred the old graphics b/c they were sharper and easier to discern.
Someone ask about the little brain on the right side of the screen. That brain is also a game, click once and try repeat, after that you have to remember 2 later 3 and each time more, try to do that by using only a hearing.
(sorry for spelling mistakes, english is not my mother tongue)
Hi
love these games, however, what would keep me doing it again and again would be knowing how I fared with an average. I love competition. Is there some place in the site that lets you know how you compare?
I think you are doing a great job but what about a table of records..? As a motive for achievement, competition comes in a miserable second to love.:-) The most of people just love it!!!!!
“Nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.”-
Johnathan Swift
I agree with many posters, that lumosity should release a percentile chart/score distribution chart somewhere so that if someone wants to know his percentile he can find out. Also I am curious about composite BPI what is the distribution for the overall BPI, because if a 1400 is 99%ile on any given game an overall BPI of 1400 must be rarer because it takes into account your composite performance for all the activities you engage in. What percentile is a 1481 Overall BPI? Is the distribution of overall BPI scores reflect a positively skewed normal distribution function with a median of 1000 and a standard deviation of approximately 150?(much like an Standard IQ test with a median of 100 and an SD of 15)
Hi
My natural language is spanish, however I´ve been noticed that my spanish verbal fluency has improved and so my hearing since I´m audio engineer recording, I do better jobs.
Thanks.
I really really need a game to help imagination, improvisation and association. That would be so cool
Would love to see more memory games that emphasize real world situations as well as more attention games.
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