'The Science Behind Lumosity'

'The online program, Lumosity, allows users to train their instincts by completing exercises that appear like compete games. In the commercials, Lumosity says, either brain keep get better, Lumosity.com tail help. Its like a personal trainer for your brain. Improving your public presentation with the science of neuroplasticity, hardly in a way that in effect(p) feels like games (Lumosity Tv Commerical, 2016). Kunal Sarkar is the CEO and co-founder of Lumosity.com. Michael Scanlon is the co-founder and the headsman scientific officer for the Lumos lab. Lumosity contains forty antithetical games targeting speed, retentivity, attention, problem solving, and flexibility. Lumosity contains a free transformation of its program, allowing someones to play deuce-ace of the games a day. A subscription provides full access, contend fin games a day, allowing a brain tribulation for benchmarking, and providing act reports. Five subscription options be available. The subscr iption options include a monthly soul ($14.95/month), yearly individual ($6.70/month), a biennial individual ($5.00/month), sprightliness use ($299.95), and a yearly five member ($10.83/month). This prove explores the science cigarette luminositys claims finished several(prenominal) analysis of studies on the program.\nThe purpose of a study was to rill whether playing online cognitive training games could purify cognitive meet in respectable older adults (Muijden, Band, & Hommel, 2012). 92 participants were called in through a local newspaper advertizing; however notwithstanding seventy-two were very used for this study. Of the 74 total, fifty-four were appoint to the experiment collection, and 20 to the control group. Participants in the experimental group played 5 different games all over a halt of 7 weeks. The remain 20, answered quiz questions closely documentaries online. The study was measured by a cognitive test battery measuring rod: working memory upd ating, set shifting, answer inhibition, attention, and inductive re... '