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• 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.

• 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: 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?

• 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 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 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.

• 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."