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Lumosity leverages cutting-edge neuroscience to create games and exercises that improve core cognitive abilities and enable users to remember more, think faster and perform better at work and school. We work closely with a Scientific Advisory Board of leading researchers from institutions such as Stanford and UCSF.

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Brain Benefits of Being Social BELONG | By Lumosity Staff, Oct 2010
You've heard it before and will probably hear it again: we are social animals. Evolution-wise, social ties improve humans' ability to survive and procreate. In fact, it can be argued that the relatively large size of our brains is mostly due to our need to communicate and cooperate with others. The importance of human interaction ...
Older People Learning New Tricks LEARN | By Lumosity Staff, Aug 2010
By Gregory Kellett, a cognitive neuroscience researcher at SFSU and UCSF, and science writer for Lumos Labs. Recent research coming out of Hamburg, Germany and published in the Journal of Neuroscience demonstrates that older brains still have the flexibility t...
Eating Your Way to a Better Brain MOVE | By Lumosity Staff, Jul 2010
Brain Processing Speed, Intelligence and Aging THINK | By Lumosity Staff, Nov 2009
The speed of performing basic cognitive operations (processing speed) is highly correlated with measures of intelligence. Processing speed may affect performance on all higher cognitive tasks and decreases in processing speed may be the primary factor underlying cognitive changes that arise with age.The speed and efficiency of information ...
Physical Exercise and the Mind THINK | By Lumosity Staff, Nov 2009
Everyone knows that breaking a sweat on a regular basis is good for the heart and waistline, but exercise also has advantages to offer the brain.Periodically getting a good workout has been shown to improve reaction time, information processing, memory, and attention, as well as helps relieve the symptoms of depression.Exactly how e...
Memory Tips THINK | By Lumosity Staff, Oct 2009
For more great content, click here to register for mywell-being.com.Certain mental techniques can enhance your ability t...
Working Memory - What it is and how it works THINK | By Lumosity Staff, Oct 2009
The cognitive process of "attention" allows the brain to manage the surfeit of the world's information by selecting only the most relevant information at any one time. What happens to this information once it successfully passes through the attentional funnel?If cognitive processing ended at attention, you would conduct your ...