'The Science Behind Lumosity'

'The online program, Lumosity, allows givers to take aim their brainiacs by complete exercises that seem manage crooking games. In the commercials, Lumosity says, Any brain can propose better, Lumosity.com can help. Its same a personal trainer for your brain. upward(a) your performance with the acquaintance of neuroplasticity, but in a personal manner that just feels resembling games (Lumosity Tv Commerical, 2016). Kunal Sarkar is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Lumosity.com. Michael Scanlon is the co-founder and the chief scientific officer for the Lumos lab. Lumosity contains 40 incompatible games targeting speed, memory, attention, fuss solving, and flexibility. Lumosity contains a drop version of its program, allowing individualists to play three of the games a day. A subscription provides amply access, vie quintuplet games a day, allowing a brain taste for benchmarking, and providing performance reports. five-spot subscription options are a vailable. The subscription options acknowledge a periodic individual ($14.95/month), periodic individual ($6.70/month), a two-year individual ($5.00/month), lifetime use ($299.95), and a per year five member ($10.83/month). This essay explores the scientific discipline behind luminositys claims done several abbreviation of studies on the program.\nThe heading of a believe was to test whether playing online cognitive develop games could improve cognitive insure in healthy senior(a) adults (Muijden, Band, & Hommel, 2012). Ninety-two participants were called in through a local publisher advertisement; even so only lxxii were actually utilize for this account. Of the seventy-four total, liv were assigned to the experimentation group, and 20 to the control group. Participants in the experimental group play 5 different games over a period of 7 weeks. The remaining 20, answered screen questions about documentaries online. The study was measured by a cognitive test she lling measurement: work memory updating, post shifting, response inhibition, attention, and inductive re... '