By contributing author Paul Li, a neuroscience graduate student at Columbia.
Hopefully some of us have or will set some realistic and flexible New Year’s resolutions for 2008. Of course a good resolution doesn’t necessarily translate to reality, as they tend to fade from our everyday recollection. To remind you of your goals throughout the [...]
By contributing author Aimee Fountain, who splits her time between Lumos Labs and teaching at American River College.
So this man walks into a bar…
You’ll get unique – and potentially beneficial – activity in your brain if you think something is funny…and maybe even if you don’t, as long as you laugh. While extensive research has [...]
There seems to be some confusion about what we mean by ‘processing speed’. Even among scientists and others in the field there are a variety of understandings of the concept, spanning from the speed of neuron-to-neuron communication to how quickly one can access stored memories. In this article, neuroscientist Lizzie Buchen explains brain processing speed [...]
Recent activities in the Lumosity brain training program:
We just released the latest memory exercise, titled Moneycomb, in which you must remember the location of coins in a honeycomb layout. This exercise targets attention and spatial working memory, and is now available from the trainer.
We also just introduced “Lumosity Points”, which are awarded for completing games [...]
While that approach may be a tad over-optimistic, there is evidence that certain foods can lead to better brain health and memory. We described some of the top candidate brain foods previously, and now this new article from the Daily Galaxy includes a helpful list of specific foods that have been linked to maintaining better [...]
Adults with memory problems are still able to improve their cognitive performance with cognitive training, according to research published this week in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.
Though adults with memory problems did not improve their impaired ability to memorize new material, they still had the capacity to improve in other areas. Specifically, the [...]
