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Lost in Migration

Area of Cognition: Attention, Focus

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. [ Read Full Story ]
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Color Match

Area of Cognition: Flexibility, Response Inhibition

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. [ Read Full Story ]
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Get Smart(er)

PopSci.com and Lumosity team up to train your brain

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

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. [ Read Full Story ]
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Word Bubbles

Area of Cognition: Processing Speed, Verbal Fluency

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. [ Read Full Story ]
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Memory Matrix

Area of Cognition: Spatial Recall, Working Memory

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. [ Read Full Story ]
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