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Feb 2, 2026
Nine tips to help you get grittier
You may have laid out your goals for 2026 in a list or a vision board, but however you’ve captured your intentions for the year, some aspirations may fall through the cracks. It can be defeating to achieve less than you’d planned, but you should avoid chalking it up to innate talent or lack thereof. Intelligence and talent aren’t the primary factors important for success. What is a crucial ingredient? Grit. Read on for tips on how to acquire grit, a primary predictor of goal achievement....
Dec 22, 2025
A positive mindset + planning for failure = resolution success
Have you made any New Year’s resolutions for 2026? Since our User Experience (UX) team’s job is to make Lumosity engaging, we’re looking back to an interview from 2017 with then UX Director Abhishek Gupta as well as summarizing some new insights into why people stick with some resolutions and not others. Whatever your New Year’s resolutions are —Lumosity-related or not—read on for our best tips on how to make this the year you stick with them....
Dec 22, 2025
A positive mindset + planning for failure = resolution success
Have you made any New Year’s resolutions for 2026? Since our User Experience (UX) team’s job is to make Lumosity engaging, we’re looking back to an interview from 2017 with then UX Director Abhishek Gupta as well as summarizing some new insights into why people stick with some resolutions and not others. Whatever your New Year’s resolutions are —Lumosity-related or not—read on for our best tips on how to make this the year you stick with them....
Aug 5, 2024
What Occupation Matches Your Lumosity Strengths and Weaknesses?
Our data science team is always looking for unique ways to interpret Lumosity game scores, and for this Insight they mapped members’ game strengths and weaknesses to different occupations.
Jul 8, 2024
People who slept this much (and no more) had top cognitive performance
During sleep, cerebral spinal fluid flows through the brain more rapidly, cleansing it of the waste products naturally produced by brain cells. Muscle is also built while you snooze, through the release of growth hormones, whereas the heart and lungs take a break. As our understanding of sleep increases, research has sought to explain sleep-related behaviors and explore sleep needs. UCSF’s Anne Richards and colleagues conducted a sleep study using Lumosity survey data collected over 20 months....
Jun 3, 2024
Can the foods you eat impact how you think?
We tend to think of foods’ impact on our bodies, not our minds. After all, we can see our bodies and the changes that they undergo as our diets change. But the food you consume can alter your immune responses, your mood, and your ability to process information. And since the brain’s energy consumption far outpaces its size relative to the rest of the body, it makes sense that “the mechanisms that are involved in the transfer of energy from foods to neurons are likely to be fundamental to the control of brain function” (Gomez-Panilla). With this in mind, I reluctantly ditched my lunch of cheese sandwich with tomato, some variation of which I eat almost every day. Why? Everything I read about diet and cognition suggested that I should reduce my consumption of the foods that are associated with the “Western diet”....
May 7, 2024
Mental Health Awareness Month 2024: Mental Health Looks Different for Everyone
This year marks the 75th anniversary of Mental Health Awareness Month, a significant milestone highlighting an enduring commitment to the advancement of mental health care and advocacy. As we’ve written about in the past, mental health and cognition are deeply intertwined, which is why we love using this time of year to reflect on the importance of mental well-being. Just as bodily health is relevant to everyone with a body, mental health is relevant to everyone with a mind. That is to say, whether you're feeling tip-top or a little down, whether you have a formal diagnosis or are just looking for a little support – it’s important to know that mental health needs are universal, and there are a number of resources available to you. Let’s delve into the themes outlined by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for this year’s observance.
Apr 30, 2024
Pro Tip: How to improve your score on What's My Name?
Meet Nelson Dellis He’s a familiar face for most Lumosity Members by now. Nelson Dellis has won the USA Memory Championship 5 times and, more importantly for this context, he also holds the world record for memorizing the most names in 15 minutes: 235. So when he heard about our new game, What’s my Name?, he was immediately keen to try memorizing all 100 faces. Excitingly for us, he decided to take us along with him to learn his strategies.
Apr 24, 2024
NEW Game: Cognition Kitchen - Recipe Recall
Let’s face it: cooking is a hectic activity. Or, at least it can be. Even those who seem to dance around their counters with grace will have to admit the great potential for chaos that exists inside every kitchen – especially when following a new recipe. But what if you could prepare for those cognitive demands without making any messes or even stepping foot in your kitchen? For that exact purpose, we’re inviting you to train in our very own Cognition Kitchen. Keep reading to learn about how the game works, the science behind it, and how it all came to be. Read all the way to the end for some expert advice on how to improve your score!
Apr 9, 2024
Pro Tip: Improve Your Score on Memory Serves
Nelson Dellis is back, and he’s here to help improve your score on Memory Serves. As a person who once memorized 339 random digits in 5 minutes, Nelson shares his best advice for conquering this Working Memory exercise. Check out the video, and try his techniques yourself!
Feb 5, 2024
What Happens to a Brain in Love?
Well, a lot of things, but scientists surveying the research around love have concluded that, “without loving relationships, humans fail to flourish, even if all of their other basic needs are met” (Carter and Porges 2012). From humans to microscopic organisms, social connections are not just a luxury but a means of survival: bacteria gravitate towards other members of their species, ants and bees have complex social systems, and wolves and voles select and attach to other adults in ways that look a lot like human love. This isn’t to say that human love is exclusively a function of biology—humans create narratives around romantic love that reinforce its importance, for instance—but biology is a big part of the equation....
Nov 6, 2023
What’s My Name? - The NEW game for remembering names and faces
We all know the feeling of frustration and embarrassment when we forget the name of someone we’ve just met, or worse, someone we’ve met more than once. Moments like these are often the reason why people wish they could improve their Memory. Indeed, Memory is the number one brain area that Lumosity members express interest in training. And, understanding the profound importance of making and maintaining personal connections, many of us put names at the top of the list for what we’d like to remember better. Enter *What’s My Name?*, our latest creation, designed to help you practice memorizing faces and the names that go with them. Keep reading to learn more about how the game works, how it was designed, and most importantly - strategies you can apply to remembering names, both in the game and in real life.
Jul 18, 2023
People who slept this much (and no more) had top cognitive performance (INTL)
During sleep, cerebral spinal fluid flows through the brain more rapidly, cleansing it of the waste products naturally produced by brain cells. Muscle is also built while you snooze, through the release of growth hormones, whereas the heart and lungs take a break. As our understanding of sleep increases, research has sought to explain sleep-related behaviors and explore sleep needs. UCSF’s Anne Richards and colleagues conducted a sleep study using Lumosity survey data collected over 20 months....
Jun 12, 2023
Join Us For The 2023 USA Memory Championship
Founded in 1997, the USA Memory Championship is a family-run event, sanctioned by MIT, and proudly sponsored by Lumosity and Memory League. Founded on the principle that anyone can train and improve their Memory skills, we welcome competitors of all experience levels and abilities to join.
Nov 1, 2022
How to improve your scores: What Lumosity teaches us about learning.
What does progress in a Lumosity game typically look like? Should one expect to improve steadily? How does one break through when scores are plateauing? Research from Yoni Donner and Joseph L Hardy may give us some clues...
Aug 20, 2021
Hiding in plain sight: explaining intentional camouflage
Can an octopus change its color and patterning immediately and at will, or is it an automatic process? How do the mind and body interact in order to change their physical appearance? What about other animals that change color? Here we explore how different animals assume camouflage and why. We cover flatfish like sole and flounder, chameleons, and of course, octopuses, each of whom has a slightly different mechanism for changing color.
Jul 1, 2021
Hear ye, hear ye? How cognition impacts hearing and its loss
Research suggests that hearing loss isn’t all in the ears where we typically think of hearing taking place. While congenital deafness is usually caused by anomalies in the inner ear, there is a cognitive component to hearing that not only describes how sounds get processed by the brain, but which may account for some hearing problems as well....
May 11, 2021
Mental Health and Cognition
This month is mental health awareness month, so we're asking, What effect has the pandemic had on mental health? What effect does mental health have on cognition? And, how does mental health awareness month help? Countries around the world have in recent years come to understand how stigma plays a role in mental health challenges and are working to undo negative associations with accessing mental health treatment. Among them is the United States where May is Mental Health Awareness Month and which, in 2021, is more relevant to many of us than ever before....
Mar 23, 2021
Can there be thought without a brain?
We’ve all seen plants that grow towards a light source, from trees that seem determined to rise above the foliage around them, to the spindly succulents of college dorm rooms. Other plants, like poppies and morning glories “sleep” at night by furling their petals closed. And recently, experiments on plants have shown that they can adapt in the moment to new environmental conditions. Which leads scientists to wonder, What’s driving these responses in the moment that they occur?
Feb 24, 2021
Dissociation and the self: What part of the brain makes you, you?
Dissociation is the state of failing to recognize your current or former self. A certain level of dissociation is an everyday event: We often step out of our immediate environment or consciousness when we daydream or have “highway hypnosis”—the sense of not having been aware of driving, especially on a familiar route. Dissociation has even been considered a cognitive skill associated with absorption in a task. But we count on emerging from these states....
Jan 20, 2021
Can many brains think as one? The wonders of collective intelligence.
Groups of ants and groups of humans don’t behave all that differently, despite being on opposite ends of the evolutionary tree. As Jurgen Kurths of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research puts it “While the single ant is certainly not smart, the collective acts in a way that I’m tempted to call intelligent.” Collective intelligence in animals accounts for the highly complex societies and behaviors that bees, ants, birds, and fish display, even when the collective’s individual animals may lack planning power on their own....
Jan 5, 2021
Why workers in cities may be more productive
“Workers are more productive in large cities” (Bacolod et al., 2020). This has been well established for years, but the reasons behind the phenomenon remain a bit of a chicken-or-egg question: Does being together make workers more productive, or do inherently more productive workers tend to congregate? And, what exactly makes them more productive in the first place?
Dec 8, 2020
2020 Virtual USA Memory Championship
This year’s USA Memory Championship gathered a warm community of Lumosity players, formally-trained mental athletes, and memory experts. The result: a clear demonstration that our memories are capable of much more than we often imagine. See how well you can keep up with the video! Maybe YOU could be our next champion....
Nov 3, 2020
Lingering questions about human smell
Rats smell in stereo, with one nostril picking up one scent, while the other is busy smelling something else. Air flow is directed separately to the two nostrils, which are “almost completely isolated from each other and supply two distinct sheets of olfactory sensory epithelia,” according to a 2006 study. Amazingly, the rat brain can process each independent smell simultaneously. While physiological adaptations explain some differences in smell, olfaction remains the least understood of the five senses. Indeed, whether the animals cited above are actually better at smelling than humans are is a matter of some dispute, and that dispute is influenced by factors that are not limited to the nose....
Oct 14, 2020
It's Almost Time for the Lumosity-Sponsored USA Memory Championship
Keen to show off your memory skills? Or are you a dyed-in-the-wool competitor? Whatever your motivation, we encourage you to sign up to participate in the annual USA Memory Championship, taking place virtually on November 14 from 1-5pm EST. The stakes are low, it’s free, and the potential for fun (and glory!) is high.
Oct 5, 2020
Can the foods you eat impact how you think?
We tend to think of foods’ impact on our bodies, not our minds. After all, we can see our bodies and the changes that they undergo as our diets change. But the food you consume can alter your immune responses, your mood, and your ability to process information. And since the brain’s energy consumption far outpaces its size relative to the rest of the body, it makes sense that “the mechanisms that are involved in the transfer of energy from foods to neurons are likely to be fundamental to the control of brain function” (Gomez-Panilla). With this in mind, I reluctantly ditched my lunch of cheese sandwich with tomato, some variation of which I eat almost every day. Why? Everything I read about diet and cognition suggested that I should reduce my consumption of the foods that are associated with the “Western diet”....
Sep 14, 2020
From Rave Culture to Rx: Schedule 1 Drugs' Therapeutic Potential
The history of psychoactive drugs in the United States is a complicated one. LSD, for instance, was originally used in a medical context in the 1950s, and shortly thereafter in secret experiments on unwitting participants by the CIA. In the 1960s psychedelics were used recreationally and even as a form of protest: Dr. Timothy Leary of Harvard advised people to take LSD and “tune in, turn on, [and] drop out” of mainstream culture. In 1970, the Nixon administration instituted the Controlled Substances Act, which made psychedelics and other psychoactive drugs illegal. And, the 1980s war on drugs cemented the idea in the cultural consciousness that drugs which the government labeled Schedule 1 had little to redeem them. But recently, a variety of Schedule 1 drugs have been granted “breakthrough therapy” status by the FDA. That designation allows drugs to be fast-tracked for development after early clinical trials suggest significant therapeutic promise....
Aug 10, 2020
How effective is education in the long term? Lumosity data has some ideas.
If college tuition has risen more than 100% just since 2001, even after adjusting for inflation, it’s reasonable to wonder: is attending college worth it? Depends on what your goals are. Will it give you a leg up in certain careers? Likely. Is formal education a way to learn new skills? We can probably all agree it is. A more complicated question is, Does it make you smarter? All of these questions are important as people evaluate the benefits and costs of getting a degree in the 21st century. And, as a recent study shows, Lumosity’s data can help clarify the relationship between cognitive performance and education....
Jul 27, 2020
The many forms of animal intelligence
Non-mammalian brains can be hard to decipher, not only because they are structured differently, but also because it’s difficult to conceive of intelligence that doesn’t look like our own. Indeed, a New York Times article, in acknowledging how smart octopuses appear to be, also asked “but why?” Normally, large brains and complex cognitive behaviors are coupled with an animal’s longevity, since it takes a long time to develop and hone the skills that these brains are capable of. Octopuses, though, only live for 2-3 years, deteriorating after they reproduce....
Jul 13, 2020
How the seasons affect our brains
While the notion that celestial bodies affect our personalities and human affairs has no scientific basis, the planet’s orientation toward the sun does. Another way of putting it? Astrology isn’t real, but seasonal changes affect our moods and even our cognition. Seasonal affective disorder or, SAD, is the most widely known affliction showing the influence the seasons have on our brains. It’s characterized by recurrent clinical depression, and it particularly affects people in northern latitudes, where seasonal amounts of daylight vary more than they do nearer the equator....
Jun 19, 2020
How do our brains navigate the world?
It’s a longstanding joke that dads are too proud to ask for directions, but they might be onto something: relying more and more on outside guidance like GPS to navigate has implications beyond getting from one place to another. Spatial cognition is a predictor of IQ and of performance in the STEM fields—it’s an aspect of intelligence that we shouldn’t just cede to technology. A number of studies over the past few decades have found that men perform better on spatial cognition tests than women. However, those findings have recently come under scrutiny....
Jun 5, 2020
What we breathe affects our brains
Quarantine has come with a major silver lining. Family time? Nope. (Well, maybe—depends on the family.) Better cognition? Not exactly, but the reduced pollution levels we’re seeing could have implications for human thought if we can maintain them. As people have driven less and manufacturing has been on pause, CO2 levels were down 17% in May 2020. And, since high CO2 levels correlate with more air pollution—burning fossil fuels produces both—that means that the atmosphere is cleaner, not just less carbon dense. And that affects our ability to think....
May 23, 2020
Lumosity wins first of its kind research award!
We at Lumosity are proud to announce that we’ve won the first ever Award for Research Data Stewardship for our collaboration with our co-winner Mark Steyvers, professor of Cognitive Science at University of California, Irvine. This award highlights one of our many research partnerships with academic and other institutions around the world—these support a core Lumosity mission of advancing the understanding of the mind and brain, and have resulted in over 45 peer reviewed publications! We’re grateful to the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) for recognizing Lumosity as a model for how companies and research universities can work together to answer big questions....
May 8, 2020
Why are most people right-handed?
sinister, adj.: giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen. From Latin sinister, meaning “on the left.” For centuries, left-handedness has been associated with deviation: indeed, Spanish and French use the same word for “right” and “straight”, while “sinister” and “awkward” are synonyms for “left.” Likewise, the biblical right hand of God is for the chosen, whereas those cast aside are on his left. A common myth about lefties (propagated in part by right-handed siblings) is that they die about ten years earlier....
Apr 15, 2020
Can we think without language?
“I don’t think very young children do think.” If this sounds controversial, it is—psychologist Charles Fernyhough says as much in a Radiolab interview. Fernyhough defines thinking as processing experience through language. That is, for him, thought is largely verbal: what most of us think of as “thinking” involves narrating the world to ourselves as we go through it....
Mar 4, 2020
Can musical training make you smarter?
You may recall the 90s phenomenon “The Mozart Effect,” which claimed that listening to Mozart in particular would make children smarter. The governor of Georgia even proposed that the state budget include a classical CD for every newborn. Alas! the finding that the claim was based on couldn’t be replicated, so the idea of a musical shortcut to intelligence got demoted to the status of myth. While passive listening doesn’t do much for intelligence after all, study after study illustrates the positive effects of musical education on brain development....
Jan 17, 2020
People who slept this much (and no more) had top cognitive performance
During sleep, cerebral spinal fluid flows through the brain more rapidly, cleansing it of the waste products naturally produced by brain cells. Muscle is also built while you snooze, through the release of growth hormones, whereas the heart and lungs take a break. As our understanding of sleep increases, research has sought to explain sleep-related behaviors and explore sleep needs. UCSF’s Anne Richards and colleagues conducted a sleep study using Lumosity survey data collected over 20 months....
Jan 8, 2020
New Lumosity research that’s anything but “boring”
“We could bore a hole in your skull and hope for the best, or do selective surgery based on brain mapping. Do you have a preference?” We’ve come a long way in the treatment of epilepsy, with historical responses to the disease including exorcism and un-anaesthetized trepanation (aka, boring a hole in the skull...yeesh). Currently, about 70% of patients respond to drug therapy. For those who don’t, surgery is often the best option: the part of the brain where seizures originate might be removed or disconnected from surrounding areas....
Nov 5, 2019
Meet Nelson Dellis: Making of a Memory Champion (VIDEO)
Dr. Bob Schafer sits down with Nelson Dellis to learn what it takes to win the USA memory championship four times. They cover: What is a memory champion, and what does it take to become one? Is Nelson a genius, or is memorizing 235 names in 15 minutes a trainable skill? How can a super memory help in day-to-day life? What’s more important: skill or drive? What defines intelligence?
Mar 28, 2019
America's Brainiest Colleges
Inspired by the athleticism on display during March Madness, Lumosity kicked off a cognitive contest amongst some of America’s most esteemed colleges. We’ve analyzed data from tens of thousands of students taking our Fit Test to determine which U.S. institutions deserve bragging rights. In the spirit of playful competition, we proudly reveal Lumosity’s Brainiest Colleges in America for 2019!
Mar 19, 2019
Five tips for becoming a Mental Samurai with Rob Lowe
When we learned that Rob Lowe is hosting a new show, Mental Samurai, we immediately thought about the cognitive training behind it. The show puts players through a mental obstacle course while they are physically transported around the set at high speeds... in a capsule rotating 360 degrees (!). The prospect of answering trivia questions under the added pressure of riding in a rotating human gyroscope prompted us consider strategies for high stakes cognitive performance. Whatever you’re preparing for, read on for our tips on how to slay like a Mental Samurai — including a few from host Rob Lowe.
Mar 17, 2019
How does alcohol affect cognition?
What the world’s largest cognitive database tells us about daily alcohol intake and memory, speed, and math performance.... St. Patrick’s Day is ranked third among the most popular drinking days, behind New Year's Eve and Christmas. One and a half times more beer is sold than usual and tens of millions of pints of Guinness are consumed. But what about drinking habits the rest of the year? If someone typically enjoys a few beers a week, could that relate to their cognitive performance?
Mar 15, 2019
Five tips for beating the winter blues
Getting a full night’s sleep is vital for staying healthy. It’s tempting to go into hibernation mode when temperatures drop, but it turns out that snoozing longer might make you feel more sluggish throughout the day. You should aim for 7-8 hours of shut-eye per night with roughly the same sleep and wake times. To help get the best night’s sleep possible, make your sleep area more relaxing: turn off the TV or any other blue light, reduce the clutter and distractions, and be sure that your mattress and bedding are suited to your physical needs. Read on for more tips for making the most of those lingering wintry days....
Mar 14, 2019
Have a slice of Pi with Lumosity
3.14 is Pi Day! It would be off-brand to suggest that eating baked goods is the proper way to celebrate the constant that relates the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Instead, we encourage you to train your brain by seeing how many digits of pi you can memorize today....
Jan 16, 2019
The reviews are in for new memory game, Memory Serves
Nelson Dellis, a four-time memory champ, knows the key to memory is practice — and practice is difficult unless you find something you actually enjoy to exercise your working memory. That’s one reason he’s giving Memory Serves, the new memory game from Lumosity, 9 out of 10 stars.
Jan 3, 2019
How to sharpen your memory: advice from a 4-time USA Memory Champ
Nelson Dellis doesn’t know where you left your car keys … but he thinks you can train yourself to remember where you put them.... Nelson Dellis is an expert at training his memory. He can recite pi to 10,000 digits, and he once memorized a deck of cards at 26,000 feet on Mt. Everest — where the air is so thin that other climbers often hallucinate. A four-time USA Memory Champion, Dellis didn’t reach the top of his game without careful training. Dellis recently authored a book premised on the notion that anyone can improve their memory, and he’s given us a preview in the interview below.
Nov 16, 2018
Level up with these time-tested memory techniques
To improve your performance in our memory games — and to use your memory more effectively in general — try these time-tested strategies: #1: The Ancient Greeks' "memory palace" was used by the ancient Greeks. The “memory palace” method is based on the understanding that people have a far better memory for the tangible (physical spaces, images) than for the abstract (numbers, words, ideas). To create your own memory palace, pick a familiar space and fill it with vivid representations of whatever you want to remember. The weirder these images, the better....
Sep 24, 2018
From lab to laptop: the origins of Lumosity games
We invite you behind the scenes to see how our game designers and scientists co-create our games. For decades, researchers have created tasks to measure cognitive abilities. Traditionally, these have been administered as in-person studies using pen and paper — which means they rarely make it out of the lab. Our scientists and game designers work to turn common cognitive and neuropsychological research tasks into exciting games, bringing cognitive research to 90 million people worldwide....
May 31, 2018
NEW Game: Fuse Clues
This week, we launched a new Problem Solving game on web and mobile: Fuse Clues. Fuse Clues challenges logical reasoning, or your ability to combine multiple cognitive processes to recognize patterns, draw conclusions, and make decisions. Fuse Clues requires logical reasoning skills to fix a power outage in an apartment building. You’ll go from apartment to apartment, restoring electricity to each by completing numerical patterns. For instance, you might be given the sequence “42, blank, 48, blank, 54,” plus a handful of other numbers — say, 44, 45, and 51. Given the sequence, which two numbers should be placed in the blank spaces to complete the pattern? (In this case, you’d place 45 and 51, so each number is 3 higher than the prior one.)...
Apr 25, 2018
Lumosity Explained: Interpreting Cognitive Training Research VIDEO
In this video, Dr. Bob Schafer, Ph.D., Head of Research at Lumos Labs, offers some tips for how you can interpret studies of cognitive training.
Apr 25, 2018
Lumosity Explained: Does Lumosity Work? (VIDEO)
In this video, Dr. Bob Schafer, Ph.D., Head of Research at Lumos Labs, offers some tips for how you can interpret studies of cognitive training.
Apr 25, 2018
Lumosity Explained: What is Lumosity? (VIDEO)
Dr. Bob Schafer, Ph.D., Head of Research at Lumos Labs, walks us through a brief overview of what brain training is and what the Lumosity training program looks like.
Apr 25, 2018
The Science Behind Train of Thought
Since launching in 2013, Train of Thought has been our most popular game: it’s been played half-a-billion times by 20 million people. We know people love Train of Thought, in part because it’s just a lot of fun. But what about the science behind the game?
Nov 17, 2017
21st Century Skills and Lumosity
At Lumosity, we believe finding opportunities to challenge yourself across a range of skills is important. With Lance Vikaros, our Director of Games Systems Design, we take a look at how Lumosity may overlap with the World Economic Forum's "21st Century Skills."
Nov 8, 2017
NEW Insight: Explore Your Lumosity Community
Have you ever wondered what your Lumosity Community looks like? Our new Insight gives you a peek behind the curtain to understand trends in your community and how you compare to other players around the world.
Oct 16, 2017
Behind the Game: Halve Your Cake
Behind the Game: Halve Your Cake Learn more about how we made our new Math game, Halve Your Cake, which challenges proportional reasoning.
Oct 3, 2017
Lumosity Launches New Math Games Category
The new category follows Language games launch as company expands into educational content
Sep 19, 2017
NEW Game Alert: Word Snatchers
Love Lumosity Language games? You're in luck: Word Snatchers is our newest game to practice and polish your vocabulary.
Sep 6, 2017
NEW Insight: What Occupation Matches Your Lumosity Strengths and Weaknesses?
Our data science team is always looking for unique ways to interpret Lumosity game scores, and for our eighth Insight they mapped members’ game strengths and weaknesses to different occupations.
Aug 1, 2017
NEW Game Alert: Pirate Passage
Can you navigate your ship to collect the treasure without running into any pirates? You'll have to consider your route carefully in new game, Pirate Passage.
Jul 12, 2017
Lumosity Glossary: Verbal Fluency
Learn more about verbal fluency, the skill challenged in Word Bubbles, and find out fun facts like which letter is the most common initial letter in English!
Jul 5, 2017
How We Chose the Six Authors Featured in the New Word Bubbles Insight
Agatha Christie, Stephen Covey, Stephen Hawking, Martin Luther King, Jr., J.K. Rowling, William Shakespeare: all iconic writers and all represented in our new Word Bubbles Insight. Of the many writers in the world, though, how did our team narrow down the list and choose these six authors for the Insight?
Jun 29, 2017
Lumosity Launches New Insight That Reveals Which Author You're Most Like
The Word Bubbles Insight combines new product offerings from Lumosity responsible for improved engagement in 2017
Jun 21, 2017
Lumosity Glossary: Logical Reasoning
Exploring logical reasoning, the cognitive skill challenged in our newest game, Fuse Clues.
May 25, 2017
Meet Ben Katz: HCP Collaborator
Meet Ben Katz, a researcher who uses Lumosity tools to investigate how individual differences affect cognitive training.
May 17, 2017
Pet Detective: Behind the Game
What do FedEx, algebra, and puppy-loving Lumosity players have in common? They all factored into the development of Pet Detective, one of our most popular games.
Apr 20, 2017
Fluent in Feedback: How Our Members Make Our Language Games Better
Now that we’ve launched our new Language category of games, we’d like to share some of our favorite member feedback and show how it’s actually helped us make these games better.
Apr 20, 2017
NEW Insight: Disillusion
Starting today, Lumosity subscribers can play Disillusion to unlock an in-depth analysis of their game performance.
Apr 13, 2017
How We Write the Stories in Contextual, Our New Reading Comprehension Game
Dr. Seuss, Toni Morrison, Niccolò Paganini, Jean-Paul Sartre: these are just a few visionaries you might learn about in Contextual, one of our new language games that challenges reading comprehension.
Apr 6, 2017
Introducing Lumosity's New Language Games
Our new Language category is the culmination of a concerted effort from the Lumosity Games and Applied Science teams to conceptualize, research, develop, and polish a suite of five word games that allow our community to practice and engage their English vocabulary.
Mar 21, 2017
Splitting Seeds and Subitizing
When we conceived of Splitting Seeds, we were interested in designing a new game that involved subitizing. Subitizing is the ability “to perceive at a glance the number of items presented.”
Mar 16, 2017
Meet Lumosity's Research Team
At Lumosity, our Research team includes an Applied Science team, a Clinical Science team, and a Data Science team, and they are all integral to ensuring that research remains an essential ingredient in our work.
Mar 9, 2017
Wyss Institute and Lumos Labs Launch Research Collaboration on Memory of High Performing Individuals
Personal Genome Project will integrate brain training tests to help identify key memory genes towards understanding neurodegeneration
Mar 7, 2017
Organic Order: A New Problem Solving Game
Problem solving game Organic Order is now available across our web and mobile platforms. Learn more about how and why we made this logic game, as well as what we discovered along the way.
Mar 3, 2017
NEW Insight: Lost in Migration
Today, we launched a brand new Insight for Lost in Migration. The Insight takes a closer look at how you filter information, providing an analysis of how distracting information affects your performance on the game.
Feb 16, 2017
Train of Thought: A Closer Look at Lumosity’s Most Popular Game
Within a week of launching, Train of Thought became Lumosity’s most popular game. No one could have anticipated the game’s massive success with users — in fact, Train of Thought almost never got made.
Jan 31, 2017
NEW Insight: Train of Thought and Planning
Today, we're excited to announce the launch of our new Train of Thought Insight. Train of Thought is our most popular game, so we wanted to give our users a richer game experience with an actionable analysis of their training.
Jan 10, 2017
Tracking Your New Year's Resolution with Lumosity Insights
How can you use Lumosity Insights to keep your New Year's Resolution? We have some tips.
Dec 22, 2016
New Game Alert: Masterpiece — Plus a Holiday Surprise for Free Members!
Just in time for the holidays, we're excited to announce the newest addition to the Lumosity Games Library: Masterpiece! Free members have unlimited access to the new game through December 31st.
Dec 16, 2016
Introducing Workout Modes: Training Tailored to You
For the first time, Workout Modes lets you decide how you train on any given day: Classic Mode, Favorites Mode, Strengthen Mode, or Quick Mode.
Dec 7, 2016
Giving Back With Our Corporate Social Responsibility Team
Lumosity's Corporate Social Responsibility team provides opportunities to responsibly and effectively give back to our wider community.
Dec 2, 2016
Lumosity at the 2016 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting
This year’s conference was held on November 12-16 in San Diego and the team exhibited four posters, sharing preliminary findings from certain research on Lumosity and the NeuroCognitive Performance Test.
Nov 21, 2016
Speed Pack: Bringing Thurstone's Punched Holes Task to Life
Traveling for the holidays? The sometimes puzzle-like quality of packing a suitcase inspired the design of our game Speed Pack.
Nov 16, 2016
Lumosity Goes Beyond Brain Training to Launch Cognitive Insights
Insights analyses draw upon database of 4 billion games played
Nov 3, 2016
Lifestyle Factors and Lumosity
Looking forward to the extra hour of sleep this Sunday? Sleep is one of a number of lifestyle factors our team is interested in exploring.
Oct 25, 2016
User Experience at Lumosity: Testing Tuesdays
Every Tuesday, our User Experience team gathers in-person feedback on new games and feature ideas from Lumosity users.
Oct 18, 2016
The Role of Dictionaries in Editor's Choice
With the launch of our Language games category in April, we owe a great deal to dictionaries -- and never more so than in Editor's Choice.
Oct 13, 2016
Celebrate National Brain Training Day With Lumosity
We've rounded up some of our favorite user achievements from the past nine years.
Sep 26, 2016
6 Interesting Facts About Lumosity Users
We asked our Data Science team to dig into our user data and tell us some of the most interesting -- and sometimes surprising -- facts about Lumosity users.
Sep 20, 2016
The People Behind Your Favorite Lumosity Games
Every game is the product of a collaboration between three people: a research scientist, a games engineer, and a games artist.
Sep 12, 2016
Our Human Cognition Project Application Now Has Rolling Deadlines
Are you a researcher interested in cognitive training? The Human Cognition Project (HCP) application now has a rolling deadline. Apply now, and if your research proposal is accepted, we offer access to variety of tools including our training program and assessments, or to select de-identified data.
Apr 5, 2016
Lumosity Expands Product Offering to Include Language Category
Lumosity today announced the launch of its Language category, a set of new games designed to help players practice using language skills.
Nov 3, 2015
Large-Scale Study on Lumos Labs’ Online Cognitive Assessment Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Lumos Labs, the makers of Lumosity, today announced the publication regarding its NeuroCognitive Performance Test (NCPT), a brief, repeatable, web-based cognitive assessment platform.
Oct 5, 2015
Behind the Scenes with Lumosity's Customer Support Team
At Lumosity we feel very privileged to work with a Customer Support team that is dedicated, innovative and always pushing the boundaries of what customer service means.
Sep 3, 2015
Investigating Cognitive Training: Lumosity's "Crossword" Study
A high-level summary of "Enhancing Cognitive Abilities with Comprehensive Training: A Large, Online, Randomized, Active-Controlled Trial."