Lumosity

Lumosity

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"Luminosity is a site specializing in mental-challenge games to test your speed, reflexes and smarts. The site boasts that regularly playing games on the site will increase your mental acuity and smarts. Luminosity is designed to provide the brain with a 10-minute workout per day, which is said to improve the health and function of the brain over time...The site offers free accounts to new visitors, which requires only a valid email account. Registered users have access to a number of games that are designed to develop greater mental speed, memory, attention, flexibility and problem solving."

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Health topic:
Brain
Cognition
Mental Health

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Free
Online
Register

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Resource type:
Educational Resource

Target Population:
General Audience

Game platform:
Internet

Company:
Lumos Labs

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Technology


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Lost in Migration

Lost in Migration is a brain training game intended to strengthen concentration and reaction time by improving players’ cognitive control. Players are shown a pack of black birds that are all facing the same way except for one. Using the arrow keys, players must quickly choose the direction that the opposite bird is facing.

Game genre:
Educational

Health topic:
Brain
Cognition

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Free
Online

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Brain Age
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Video games

Target Population:
General Audience

URL:
http://www.lumosity.com/brain-games/attention-games/lost-in-migration
www.lumosity.com/info/program/brain_games

Game platform:
Internet


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Memory Matrix

This free, online brain-training game is designed to sharpen and improve players’ working memory. The game is made up of a series of rounds that become more complex and challenging as the player advances. Players watch tiles a pattern of lights and attempt to recreate the pattern based on memory.

Game genre:
Educational

Health topic:
Brain
Cognition

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Free
Online

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Lumosity
Neurology
Nintendo DS
Technology
The Matrix
Touch! Generations
Video games
Virtual reality

Target Population:
General Audience

URL:
http://www.lumosity.com/brain-games/memory-games/memory-matrix

Game platform:
Internet


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Speed Brain

Speed Brain is a brain-training game designed to help players improve their reaction time and processing speed.

Game genre:
Educational

Health topic:
Brain
Cognition

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Download
Purchase

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Cognition
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Nervous system
Neurology
Neuropsychology
Nintendo
Technology
Touch! Generations
Video games

Target Population:
General Audience

Game platform:
Handheld Device

URL:
http://www.lumosity.com/info/program/iphone_brain_games

Technology:
mobile devices


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Word Bubbles

Word Bubbles is a free, online game designed to improve players’ processing speed and ability to find words. The game presents players with three letters and one minute to come up with as many words as possible that start with those letters. There are several rounds and at the end players are told how quickly they were able to conduct their cognitive processes.

Game genre:
Educational

Health topic:
Brain
Cognition

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Free
Online

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Entertainment
Games
Lumosity
Neurology
Nintendo
Nintendo DS
Speech balloon
Technology
Touch! Generations
Video games

Target Population:
General Audience

URL:
http://www.lumosity.com/brain-games/flexibility-games/word-bubbles
www.lumosity.com/info/program/brain_games

Game platform:
Internet


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Birdwatching

This game is designed to improve players’ attention and sharpen their ability to process visual information. While it starts out easy, the game gets progressively more challenging as players improve.

Game genre:
Educational

Health topic:
Cognition

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Online
Purchase
Subscription

Social Tags:
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
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Target Population:
General Audience

Game platform:
Internet

URL:
www.lumosity.com/info/program/brain_games


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Lumosity Brain Games

This collection of web-based brain training exercises and activities is designed to improve multiple areas of cognition. Players can choose from a variety of games that focus on concentration, memory, attention, and more.

Game genre:
Educational

Health topic:
Brain
Cognition

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Online
Purchase
Subscription

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Brain Age
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Cognition
Cognitive neuroscience
Lumosity
Nervous system
Neurology
Nintendo
Technology
Touch! Generations
Video games

Target Population:
General Audience

URL:
http://www.lumosity.com

Game platform:
Internet


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Monster Garden

Monster Garden, a web-based brain-training game, is a spatial memory exercise intended to help improve memory and attention. Players are briefly shown where monsters are hidden in a garden and then must make their way through without stepping on them. As players’ performance improves, the levels become harder.

Game genre:
Puzzle
Strategy

Health topic:
Cognition

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Online
Purchase
Subscription

Social Tags:
Brain Age
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
Brain fitness
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Cognition
Lumosity
Nervous system
Neurology
Nintendo
Technology
Touch! Generations
Video games

Target Population:
General Audience

URL:
http://www.lumosity.com/brain-games
www.lumosity.com/info/program/brain_games

Game platform:
Internet


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Brain Health Blog

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Brain Health Blog concerns “information on the science that goes into the [brain training] games and training applications developed by Luminosity.

Organization: 
Health topic:
Brain
Cognition

How to Obtain (Games, Resources):
Free
Online

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Anatomy
Biology
Brain
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Brain fitness
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Disaster
Document
Environment
Health
Labor
Lumosity
Nervous system
Neuropsychology
Social Issues
Technology
Weather
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Resource type:
Blog

Calais Document Category:
Disaster
Environment
Health
Labor
Social Issues
Technology
Weather

Target Population:
General Audience

Game platform:
Internet

Company:
Lumos Labs


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Lumos Labs

"Lumos Labs is a cognitive neuroscience research and development company that builds software tools for improving brain health and performance.

Game genre:
Educational
Puzzle

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Brain fitness
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Technology
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Organization expertise:
Cognition
Mental Health

Events Facts:
Company Technology

Target Population:
General Audience

Game platform:
Handheld Device
Internet

Company:
Lumos Labs

Services:
Research
Software and Hardware Applications

Organization type:
Software Company

Calais Document Category:
Technology

Location:
United States


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