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02.10.12
Entertainment & Gaming

Lost in Migration

Area of Cognition: Attention, Focus
Posted 04.29.2009 at 2:46 pm 0 Comments
Lost in Migration is designed to train and improve your cognitive control and reaction time. This task focuses on suppressing your automatic response to the stimuli.
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Color Match

Area of Cognition: Flexibility, Response Inhibition
Posted 04.29.2009 at 1:22 pm 0 Comments
Color Match is designed to improve flexibility and response inhibition by keeping goals in mind and prioritizing actions. It is thought that the ability to resist initial gut reactions towards making more informed responses is one of the main advantages of being human.
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Get Smart(er)

PopSci.com and Lumosity team up to train your brain
By Christine Cyr Posted 01.22.2009 at 11:37 am Comments

Games and puzzles have a long history of “teasing” your brain so that it gets bigger and badder, and eventually smarter. Lumos Labs, a San Francisco-based cognitive neuroscience research company, recently released a series of games—under the title Lumosity—designed to improve a whole gamut of brain functions.

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Get Smart(er)

PopSci.com and Lumosity team up to train your brain
By Christine Cyr Posted 01.22.2009 at 11:37 am 1 Comment

Games and puzzles have a long history of “teasing” your brain so that it gets bigger and badder, and eventually smarter. Lumos Labs, a San Francisco-based cognitive neuroscience research company, recently released a series of games—under the title Lumosity—designed to improve a whole gamut of brain functions.

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Speed Match

Area of Cognition: Processing Speed
Posted 01.07.2009 at 3:12 pm 0 Comments
Speed Match is designed to train and improve your processing speed and reaction time. This task focuses on improving processing speed, which is often considered a bottleneck for other cognitive functions.
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Word Bubbles

Area of Cognition: Processing Speed, Verbal Fluency
Posted 01.07.2009 at 3:05 pm 0 Comments
Word Bubbles is designed to train and improve your processing speed. It targets verbal fluency by training you to think flexibly and creatively come up with words.
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Memory Matrix

Area of Cognition: Spatial Recall, Working Memory
Posted 01.07.2009 at 2:50 pm 0 Comments
Memory Matrix works your memory for shapes, spatial layouts and pattern recall. You must take a quick mental "snapshot" of the grid so you can select the correct squares.
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