Lumosity, the online
brain training company, has quite the seductive pitch: If you want to sharpen your mental focus and stave off dementia and Alzheimer's, just start playing a series of its mobile and online games.
A group of University of Illinois psychologists reviewed all the scientific papers that
brain training companies use to market the proven success of their brain training apps and games.
Not exact matches
Last year started on a $ 2 million sour note for
brain -
training game
company Lumosity.
A version of the speed
training program developed for this trial is now commercially available through the
brain fitness
company Posit Science, but the researchers are working on making other types of
training available as well.
Companies trawl the web to gather billions of images and use them to
train an algorithm inspired by neurons in the
brain, called a deep neural network.
Indeed, the subjects in this study were a self - selected group «who would have had a natural inclination to play this sort of game,» says David Moore, director of the MRC Institute of Hearing Research in Nottingham, UK, and a founder of MindWeavers, a
company in Oxford, UK, selling the
brain -
training program MindFit.
The
company had given me a free, temporary account so that I could try out their system as part of my research for an article I was writing on
brain training.
Play a computer game, boost your IQ — that's the claim made by some software
companies peddling so - called
brain -
training programs.
«This article makes big claims out of a single negative finding,» says Torkel Klingberg, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and founder of a
company that makes computer
brain -
training programs to improve working memory and other cognitive functions.
Funded by a partnership grant from Eli Lilly &
Company to create non-credit
training / informational tools about PET
brain imaging for technologists.
I wanted him on here to pick his
brain about the personal
training and coaching
company he's built and why I admire it so much.
Companies like Lumosity charge you a monthly fee for
brain -
training games, but playing puzzle games on your kid's Xbox may have the same effects — and depending on what you play, may be even more effective.
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Geoffrey has an extensive background in adult education, having been a tenured member of a faculty of law in Australia, Education Services Manager of a national software
company, and National Director of the Mind /
Brain Network of the American Society of
Training and Development.