A Brain Trainer That Doesnt Suck & How To Improve Your Memory

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The same level of improvement could have easily been attained through playing other computer games such as Tetris. Lumosity have been mentioned a lot in connection with this report, as it is their very own Michael Scanlon who offered a rebuttal to their findings. Especially research into their own wondergames. So what went wrong? They only looked at 23 people, with 14 placed in the trained group and nine placed in the control group and one of them dropped out. This is a tiny number to make up a scientific study with. There will naturally be so much random noise that it would be hard to pinpoint down any changes between groups.

So how can the investigators be sure that it is the games themselves causing any benefit, or just the fact that a group of people were performing a simple task to increase awareness? A third group in which volunteers did crosswords or played Tetris in between tests would have sorted this out. Their graph was presented as follows:. That is, the increase was very unlikely to happen by random. What about the control group though? The scores attained there are, in essence, exactly the same as the trained group.

If you really want to mildly stretch your brain, why not do a crossword? The Guardian have a massive archive for you to try. I have to linked to them as I do feel mildly guilty with the earlier comments; being a long-haired liberal, it is still my newspaper of choice. I find it sadly ironic that right below your article as I viewed it was an Ad by Google for lumosity. I think that it can improve mental skills, just like any intellectual game. BBC did research with around 11, people.

They make you better at the games, but are about the same as any other game crosswords, etc… with improving your brain. The research did not include the elderly and the very young. In that sense, the research might also have not included people that start fresh playing these games. I can vividly recall how problem solving skills improved greatly after each year in engineering school.

For example, a lot of the games penalize your for impulsivity i. I myself use Lumosity every morning and I am an engineer. Lumosity does not necessarily make you more intelligent by stretching you brain capability to its limits like say engineering might but it does improve your mental sharpness which is useful in life in general.

I have a good friend who is a metals broker, now he may not be able to solve a differential equations to save his life but that guy is as sharp as you like! He is very sharp but not necessarily super intelligent. Reading between the lines of their internal study, it seems that the way they tested improvement was by subjecting the subjects to their own games.

So, shocker, the kids playing the games got better at them. The question is, does this help people prove theorems? There is no way you can believe this Lumosity is any different than a video game you would buy at gamestop. Just because you set a hyperactive attention deficit child in front of an XBOX and let him become a prodigy at HALO does not mean he is going to be able to apply those coordination skill to school, sports, or a career Unless that career is MLG! OF course you can get better and better at a game the more you play it, especially if it is a fun game.

Your synapses and pathways in your brain get burned deep with repetition of a specialized activity, but this in no way can be applied to broader activities. Reading one paragraph over and over until you can speed read it will not allow you to read a textbook any faster. Hey, I would have to defend lumosity.

I know that for most users is just a marketting gimmick and self gratulatory. I played it consistently everyday for about an hour. In fact, before reading, I play some attention games, I discovered I could read much faster. I can guarantee it. I can read faster. It is possible the reason I do so is because I have some attention disorders and the game keeps me focused, and maybe some other thing would help better. But it does help me focus more on my reading for what its worth.

The problem with crosswords, less so for sudokus, is that are not pressured to work under a timeline, and can be used as a relaxing killing time exercise. My friends would ask me, — why your face and eyes look so red? I guess it was the bloodflow going to my head. Another thing I almost forgot. I tested myself in normal days and after drinking and even up to 2 days after drinking my scores were relatively lower. Again, this does not mean anything that would not happen with other brain stimulants. The thing is it should only happen when you are using the full extent of your brain.

So if you can get a hoby or passtime not just to kill time but that would also do that effect, then should be OK. I have been using Lumosity for 9 months and went for a vision check. My overall vision improved, both with long distance and short distance. Also my peripheral vision improved. This is the first change in my vision in a decade. I do not use Lumosity every day, nor do I use it at the same time daily. I notice my skills vary during different times of day and also depend upon how much stress I am under and how much sleep I am getting.

I also have tried the games when I have had a glass of wine. I do know that I am reading faster and comprehending better, also am able to retain the material better. I have been using Lumosity for about 7 days, and I am quite thrilled with the product. I earn my living as a programmer. This alone justifies the cost of the product. I notice that the first few pages I read are a blurr then my brain is warmed up and I remember the content after that. Such a great post inspired people who read it..

Make it happen for yourself, if you believe it works it will.

Whats that shit called, oh, placebo effect. People take sugar pills under the assumption it is medicine to cure their ills and magically the sugar cures their ills. The power of the brain is not understood. If you approach the world with a closed mind and negativity, what do you think your world will look like. Its all about perception.

If you repeat something over and over again, actually focus, and work hard, of course you are going to increase your ability. The person that wrote this article is a good example of why there is not as much progress in the world. And as Jason McClinsey said above, it serves a good warm-up exercise tool for your brain.

After 5 days of playing every morning, I can definitely feel having a better peripheral vision, mental flexibility, mental calculations, etc. From my reading of this article, it seems like the author has not even tried the games for a couple of days yet. Give it a shot, and re-write the article after at least a week of regular playing. Hhaahahahaa So everybody here is a neuro-scientists and knows. Different games will require different levels of attention etc. Maybe you need to play some Lumosity. The research on this groundbreaking invention was recently published in the science journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Apparently the US military has just awarded Lumosity a research grant with the idea of using its techniques on their soldiers. Have they been duped? Has anybody been unhappy with the refund policy? My initial free offer was for just 5 sessions, which would probably be enough to decide whether the principle would be helpful; I anticipate problems. Snake-oil practitioners know that litigation is unlikely and I suspect that is what we have here. If the principle works for some then everyone is happy.

The administration of 5 free sessions before enforcing payment is a no-brainer. In other news, eating sushi just before reading will help increase reading speed and focus. I didnt even bother reading the rest after the first paragraph. I m trying to do some research in brain training to try and help with my studies. I am an engineering student and I find that I enjoy the material but become bored after 50 hours a week of reading and doing problems. Some of my friends who are into video games seem to have a better skills than I do and it made me start to wonder what they do thats different.

I figured out they play alot of video games. Well that doesnt make them better at calculus but it does train their brain to find joy in mental exercise. I dont like video games but I want the benefit they get without the asinine platform that most video games provide. I found luminosity and I think its a great way to train my brain in something light and fun without shooting, killing or blowing up zombies and such. I think this article doesn t have a mature perspective and anyone who is in the same position as I am dont think there is no solution to your needs, it may be something else but really it depends on what you want and your personality.

These programs train your brain to do these exercises and it makes you happy they are not trying to fool you they are giving you what you need to function better- happiness while stimulating yourself. It works you just have to understand what it is and not think that it will solve all your issues. It is one brick in building a better mind. Not to mention, rewarding. Of course, it does not make you smarter. But it helps to improve your ways to learn and eventually it makes you smarter! More convenient way to START improving your brain and way better activity than sitting behind TV and watching relatively stupid TV shows and having a beer, like most people do.

They really are just computer games just like any other but in way better package — helps to keep track your exercise more scientific way. I would rate this game way better than any shooter games or even worse — money farming time wasters. Is there anything I can do to improve my cognitive abilities? I heard learning a new language is very helpful. Things like this need an open mind to make them work. The person who thinks this is all crap is the same person who watches a magic show ONLY to figure out how the tricks are done, ruining the fun and happy experience for everyone around them.

This is about people who WANT to be better people. The people who use Lumosity regularly probably excel in everything they do simply because they have a positive attitude about themselves in general. You get better at it thru repetition. Thanks for this well written research into the topic.

It was exactly what I was looking for as I embarrassingly almost fell for it. There are plenty of free puzzle games and mind games on the internet, but Lumosity organizes their games in a way that hones in on different areas of thought processes. The games become progressively more difficult, so even though there is some repetition, new levels are introduced.

Once you have reached your maximum BPI assuming you can , you can adjust your age to compete with younger people who apparently according to Lumosity are much more quick minded than people in my age range. I can however say, at least for myself, that I have noticed practical improvement in calculating speed which I was interested in and distributive attention. The point you made that your brain gets accustomed to the games is fair, but keep in mind that the games actually become more difficult as you progress, thus keeping you challenged.

My conclusion would be that Lumosity is useful, but not really worth the money they are asking for. Yes, but they are boring. I never go back to them. Lumosity has made their games fun and untiring, which is a major part of their appeal. If you want to verify this read articles on Neuroscience. Glad somebody published an article about this company. Give Lumosity a break. I tried it and it does indeed help. There is a face recognition game that has helped me to remember new acquaintances names.

All this program does is concentrait on the brain function being used and stretch you to your ability cap. I did the three-day trial and could see how just becoming familiar with a game increased my score. This basically shows that my brain function has improved.

The point is that the brain needs exercise to stay sharp. Use it or lose it! Just like for physical workouts, it makes sense that the brain needs a variety of exercises. I can workout my brain at almost anytime. I scored around 5, and he scored just over 16,! Is my brain not even 8-bit? I just like the convenience of having a daily challenge set up for me and stats to go along with it, it keeps me coming back and regularly doing it.

I notice I am more alert, my mind is able to process things quicker. The games simply stimulate your brain to work and start thinking. Bicycling makes your legs go round, said Einstein. Good, structured research, using sound techniques and adequate sample sizes is designed to inform your brain reliably as to the probable, but not entirely certain answer. There is none presented here on either side of the discussion. So my brain tells me not to read too much into on line reviews like these… So that is something useful learned.

The sample size of comments here my brain tells me is adequate to meet the size of the decision whether or not to buy into Lumosity. Thank you to all contributors. I feel very, very brainy as a result of publishing my inadequately researched opinion because I might otherwise have wasted my time listening to pundits on the TV telling me that all is for the best in the best possible of worlds. Most reviewers will hate my review. I enjoyed it, though. So I am right. I would also like to point out the incompetence in the data analysis performed in the small study.

The error is common one, and occurs in the data shown in Fig. The conclusion statement is,. But you hit it on the nail above: There is no problem I can see with their calculations in this regard. This requires a separate statistical test, which was NOT performed. The authors are careful about how their conclusions are worded and avoid saying that Lumosity is better, instead saying only that Lumosity produced a statistically significant result while the non-Lumosity group did not.

A great article in Nature that originally pointed me to the rampant nature of this error, especially in neuroscience, is here:. This is behind a paywall, but the conclusion drawn is that a different test needs to be employed — the authors discover in these papers that,. In the extreme case, for example, one could say that the Lumosity group achieved significance with a p-value of 0.

Thank you, David C, for a very thoughtful comment, I am no statistician but have had to use market and product research to aid decisions. Here, the sample sizes are tiny and very dodgy. Or that anything at all has been learned, except, possibly, how to tick some boxes. In practical terms, it is not the research that matters finally, as it is marginal, right or wrong, It is the decision you decide on having read this very sketchy, very small. Why has so little research been done?

It is easy and cheap to do! Maybe other small studies have not shown glamorous results? Its definitely a no-brainer! So, having read through the original article, and the very interesting, uniquely-toned responses, I must say that the first I noticed by Nuffin Doone was remarkably enjoyable— so enjoyable, in fact, that I became a bit sad that the next article was written so… well, so scientifically. And if I might be so bold as to say repetitive? His brain is just interested in things slightly different than mine is at this time.

Point is, I suppose… no, wait. The point… I mean, MY point. I very much enjoyed all of the responses here. Or, most of them. I enjoyed the varying array of types of responses, rather. I think that this article is missing the main point of Luminosity which is that it contains fun games that are exercising your brain in a way that you might not be doing on a day-to-day basis. The other good think is that it contains games that are focusing on different areas of the brain speed, memory, flexibility,etc… whereas a game like a Crossword would only train flexibility for example.

Of course you could find several free games here and there that would train all these areas, set time limits, register all your results,etc.. In my case I am feel like Luminosity helped me to improve some skills like orientation so I would recommend people to give it a try and make their own mind, as for a lot of thing s in life. It is of course whatever turns you on!

There is reasonable evidence that using your brain involves learning, simply from the history of the human race. There are, however, implications that this is some proven great training for the mind. Not so long ago Coca Cola was launched as a brain tonic and many have spent money on it since.

Now it is the biggest food brand in the world and among one of the most injurious to health. Critical review and attempts at scientific proof are helpful in sizing up any innovation. Apologies for spelling Lumosity incorrectly as Luminosity. Despite studying the thing quite a bit, it failed to teach me its brand name. There is a suggestion above that the US military is funding research into Lumosity and the commenter asks if they have been duped?

During the second world war they expensively researched parachuting live butterflies imbued with incendiary material down the chimneys of Japanese households in the hope of setting light to the country. This is on the official record. Anybody could be right about anything. And in many countries people are still free to get it wrong. For me it is a question of probabilities, against a limited supply of money.

Yes, I think the point is not whether Lumosity exercises the brain but whether other free games or activities do the same thing. And most of all: Thank you for your guiding light in this discussion. Focused, hard mental practice at becoming a bit better everytime. Lumosity is the purest of evil.

I mean, they have a good marketing department so they must be? In all seriousness, this article is ludicrous. It is however a flexible, fun and convenient one. I have been playing Lumosity for bout 5 month and completed about games by now. I gained points, which is more than 1 sigma of statistical distribution. My average IQ increased by more than 1 sigma i. Before Lumosity my best IQ result was , now I scored from the first attempt IT IS a statistically significant result! Especially I notice the improvement in memory and flexibility, which were originally poorly developed for some reason.

But certainly to increase takes quite a bit of repetitions, much more than for to gain. Most criticism of Lumosity reminds me the criticism of dumbbells or jogging by a lazy fat-ass person. A friend of mine is a professional online poker player who makes way more money than an average person. His overall BPI has cracked recently, and he plays like hell, saying that Lumosity helps him a loot in his activities. Dear Arkadiy, A PhD in physics and a scientific manager might know that a sample of one adds up to a sample of one.

That would make them even more loot than your poker player friend is bound to lose. Other ways of perhaps learning these things on line are free of charge. My own daily exercise has given my brain the ability to deduce that the earth is round.

All best respects and good wishes to you. For most western people 80 bucks is almost nothing and you mention this amount about 10 times as if it really matters. But the thing they make work. Of course, they are not unique, techniques are obvious, but implementation is excellent.

Do I have any reasons to lie we already know, that for me 80 bucks is not the amount to worry about? Who is insulting whom? I mean get your point, but you are totally wrong. And just trying to reduce your own cognitive dissonance actively ignoring the facts, told to you by others. Same as dumbbells or treadmill. Dear Arcadi If you have read the medical research papers quoted on the Lumosity site you will not find a mention of Lumosity in the reports and none that robustly demonstrate on decent sample sizes that brainpower can indubitably be accelerated permanently portrayed by Lumosity.

These studies relate tin the main to our attempts to grapple with ADHD a matter more important, even, than how one spends money on liesure if your wealth permits you to throw money around at whim. Certainly, dear Arcadii, i am greedy for a lot of things, including truth, the downfall of all charlatans and the assassination of the disastrous dictatorship of ignorance. Mainly, my greed centres on trying to make the world a better place in the very small ways one can. As I try to do here. This rarely makes people like you in the short term, as a lazy brain prefers beer to hard work..

The reasonable man lives at peace with the world as he finds it. The unreasonable chap seeks to change it. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men. He was a lot brighter than me, and he defined in this sentence the duty of a scientist and PhD. If what you believe is that the brain can learn, then I fully agree. Is it more useful and more pyschologically rewarding to pay a subscription to the Humanist Association, or to send the money to an educational charity in India?

For me, that is the question, though you are free, one hopes, to ask any question you like, of course, in any forum you like, except in China. They all could, of course, be right or wrong. Good,and sturdily tested evidence just helps some to decide. I live, and occasionally learn when to shut up! Billions once would once have liked to believed the following because they wanted to, but I have not seen the naked truth of the advertised claims:.

Hitler had only got one ball Himmler was somewhat similar But poor old Goebbels had no balls at all. Dear Arkadiy I will certainly concede one thing with the most sincere apology. My unLumossiferous brain repeatedly spells your name incorrectly; So sorry. Exercise Your Brain — http: Where is the reliable evidence to support these amazing claims? This ad appeared over my Gmail today.

Similarly, my wife recently got an email offering to enlarge her penis and within minutes I got an email to my very male actual name offering to remodel my vagina,. We live in a world where it is quite important to be critical of the messages we get. Do please, anyone, send me its contacts details! I respect your right for an independent opinion.

But why do you make such general conclusions? Well, criticize the paper. If nobody knows, why should you? Did you conduct a proper research? If you would have had 10, game plays completed within a year and would show some figures of your performance and progress, than your article would have some value and would be close to truth. Or, what is better, you would also had a group of at least 10 the same persistent and dedicated people doing the same.

Not more, not less. Only because they are to lazy or passive to get more and more repetitions. The same, as any other learning. Repetitions are one of the basic tools to make our brain learn. What is good about Lumosity, it helps you to learn stuff faster with less repetitions. With Lumosity or any other similar activity you teach the brain to learn better. Lumosity is just a very convenient tool for doing so and tracking progress.

I hope you will take the trouble to reply to the questions above. But in any case I stop arguing with Internet here. It is always wrong in some point. In both the private industry and public services and in positions ranging from CEO jobs to Management Consultancy. So, i am deeply concerned with the way the world has come to swallow crap by being persuaded to purchase crap by crap marketers who cannot see that the long term growth of their businesses depends on delivering excellent long term benefits to customers. We have all managed to abuse the brilliance of computers very often to obscure the negatives and exaggerate the merits of many poor products and services this way by exploiting the inarticulate.

Try volunteering at Citizens Advice to see vividly how debt cases do actually arise, as contrasted with the public imagery of evil wastrels. I would be wholly delighted to pay ten times over for Lumosity, were it effectual, My last brain scan was not good. Time is short for me to waste it.

In another area, it pains me very greatly to see a man who went out and murdered 70 young people whom he did not know because he felt he was promoting good. This decision means that we will not be devoting to psychopathic conditions the research efforts that we would to what we see as medical problems like cancer or schizophrenia to combat their effects, So it is the worst possible decision for those who have been through the Hitler and Stalin eras of genocidal pscychopathic brute force murder which continues to be the disorder that has left billions of young corpses steeping the history books and the present day military medics with congealing blood all over them.

We need to organise to care for the general long term good. I have tried to answer all your questions here and thank you most sincerely for discussing the issues with me, as I see them and as you see them. Good luck,and good science in your career, dear Arkadiy. But it is still an empty block of text.

How would you explain my progress? It is obvious, that improvement is caused by the training, and this training caused similar improvement in a different area, thus allowing to assume, that the skills are transferable. I observed very similar results among my friends, to whom I gave Lumosity subscription as presents. Is it own experience, independent research, or does Lumosity obviously breaks some neuro-biological, psychological or any other fundamental laws of nature? Hitler, Goebbels, Norwegian Shooter, Stalin have got absolutely nothing to do with this.

Only statistics and experiments matter. We should study why some people are sometimes evil far more than we do if we wish to avoid war, for example. We should mind about how people delude themselves, Therefore. I have pursued a clear line of coherent and connected debate, The earth really is not flat,you know,my dear friend.

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The role of the scientist is to try and help humans to separate fact from fiction. Is the relevance now clear? Thank you for your views and all best wishes. In other words, you feel yourself free or even committed due to some high-minded mission to keep pushing your unsubstantiated claims towards Lumosity, because the first started to claim high efficiency without proper basis. They started it first! If you are really interested, just search Pubmed for relevant scientific papers. I do agree, they are way too aggressive with promoting their product, but even here they are very careful in their wording.

Of course it is impossible to stop ageing at cell level, everyone will die some day, because it is a basis. After the body naturally and continuously degrades.

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Lean mass, maximum heart rate, brain performance as by itself and as a result of the body degradation. However it is possible to a certain extent to compensate this decline by persistent training of both body muscles, cardiovascular system by physical exercise and mind which basically directly affects brain by brushing up existing complex skills as well as acquiring totally new skills.

By doing the above properly from the early age one can extent the active age period by the order of ten years, not to say that the quality of living and well-being will be higher compared to passively ageing people. Intelligence and satisfactory physical performance will last longer. It is not my wishful thinking, try to work with literature and you will see, that I am correct. Basically it is about nothing. And I again repeat my question, what can you say about 1 sigma improvement of IQ after enormous Lumosity training with similar gain?

I am delighted that you personally feel you are getting something, presumably an enduring something ,out of Lumosity though there is, as you say, no solid evidence that anyone else would find any enduring value from expenditure on it. Have you read the summary of many research papers feature that is on the site? It says no improvement has been found. As to your scores, I am very happy that you are happy with them.

That is also an arena fraught with anomalous examples of bright achievers who got low scores and dim non achievers who got high ones. Whatever turns you and manpower services on… as they say. And that you agree that they have poorly done inconclusive research results. Best wishes and thank you for replying. I have no doubt at all that you will gain the maximum scores, i hope partly through your encounter with the invigorating effects of this discussion!

I think i will send it to the campaign to outlaw bottled water. Most scientists do fall into this trap at some point. I personally cant explain why Nature should publish such a terribly tailored research results, unless they got paid for that. No matter many much people you use for the research. Or, similarly, that postgraduate study will not make a PhD, based on 1.

Everything takes TIME and repetitions. So Lumositys marketing department should be careful with what they say and claim, so as you. Because subjects are not persistent enough. I made quite a bit of gifts of 1-year accounts to my friends who I expected to be interested and going to work hard, and everyone show significant improvement after several thousand games played. And they do not notice memory improvement or other improvements like faster reading, better focus etc.

I can at this moment say only qualitatively, but a lower threshold of attaining really fast results is about game plays a month or more for the first several month and then at least game plays depending on personal endurance, cause playing very close to the limit is becoming quite demanding, only then, when playing many-many times at the limit. I wont take results of any research of Lumosity efficiency seriously, unless the will be or more subjects in a examined group, who accumulate 15, Lumosity Points or more within 1 year playing daily that will require about 1 hour a day.

And another group of in a control group who will play ordinary video games and solve cross-word puzzles for an equivalent time. Of course there must be standardized procedure of testing as well as other activities of subjects, such as nourishing, physical activity, sleep etc…. Further more, unless you show me the results of such research with proper statistical analysis, you certainly can not make any conclusions of whether Lumosity works or not, whether it is evil, or not. I mean of course you can and you are free to do so, but be ready that you are not going to be taken seriously.

Most of your statements are are just demagogy, and it is very difficult to get any straight and short answer without referencing to unrelated facts or odious historical figures. You are allowed to make a 3 days trial account and if you are smart, greedy and motivated enough you can extend this free period effectively without limitatoon. Arkadiy,, Your English is excellent and often has fewer errors than mine despite my long forgotten Oxford language degree course. It is a very awkward language to learn and its speakers are far too unwilling to learn other languages.

One of the few things i have done right is to have mercilessly promoted physical exercise as the preferred treatment for depression over pyscho-active pharmaceuticals, So we are very much on net in frustration at our inability to find ways of motivating people to exercise daily vigorously, which has had by far the best effect on my brain function of any activity I have done. The clients i have worked with, about 60 of them, have all measurably improved through exercise as the only variable, some having had complete recoveries. So I greatly applaud your dedicated enthusiasm to help others..

Uncertainty is a central fact of life, and the insecurity it engenders is the greatest cause of stress, say the psychologists. Sorting myth from the real and the true has never been easy, as the thousands of uniquely all powerful mythical exclusive Gods we fear illustrates. Many have been murdered because science has not yet won all the minds and hearts it needs to. Syria is the present most obvious sufferer. I would like to point out something extremely basic and the premise for one of the authors main arguements. I asked a 7 year old what the problem with this sentance was. This artical is poorly written, poorly backed, slanderous and has 0 credibility.

Single sided defamation…this author should apply for a gossip column. Does your son think Lumosity will delay him aging, as the ads promise? That is what they would like you to believe, John. How much younger are you having bought it and used it? Kerin Gedge, keep on training, and you will see real improvement in month. Just try to play at least games a month. Truth is not a relative business. It was not ever been possible and hardly will in future. However, brain games can compensate cognitive decline related to age to a great extent.

And which you, for some reason, do not want to give up despite of pretty good arguments in support of Lumosity. But, well, keep on insisting in impossibility of becoming younger Captain Obvious.

Dear Arkady Good luck! Morality in advertising matters to some people more than you imagine! If morality matters to some people, keep the morality while fighting for it. In other words, be more certain in your claims then. HOWEVER, the way the position of the product on the market is not entirely true and is based on some verbal exaggeration of positive features of the product. It is not true, because it works. Dear Chap We are training our brains every day we are alive.

Now I am sorry, but that is an end to my efforts to distinguish between science and propaganda. To me it matters, to you it does not. Well most of us do not train brain in daily life properly… The same as with muscles and cardiovascular system. But anyway, we can conclude from the above, that: False propaganda is bad and immoral. Dear Akadiy It is important not to attribute to others things that they have not said. That is not scientific, nor is it useful debate. This is my very last word.

It is not FREE after a trial sample. Yes, for some certain period of time and with limited features. But their game library is perfect, includes already 39 games and contiguously expanding. And they develop really motivating and brain-twisting exercise games, way more useful, than senseless cross-word puzzles and the like.

And it seems to me, that due to this reason you keep getting to the last detail. I began reading this long, drawn out string of comments looking to get a better perspective on Lumosity. But it certainly has a lot of people discussing it, trying to prove their stance on it, or disprove everyone else.

I suppose anything that gets your brain going can be beneficial to your mental accuity hope I spelled that right So good job Lumosity, not sure if the science behind it is entirely accurate, but youve certainly sparked a lot of conversation in this matter.

And in doing so, improved my mental focus for a short time. Participate in online discussions! I dont need a gimmick, never underestimate the power of hard work. If you want to learn, knuckle down and learn. If you want to be a better human being, spend less time isolated in front of a computer screen playing silly games, and more time interacting with other human beings. If you want to read better, read more! Its really that simple, at least in my simple minded way of looking at things. I say hogwash on the stochastic article.

I did very similar computer games for increasing reading speed in law school. Those case books are thick! I doubled my reading speed and more. The games had visual field, awareness, and other tasks very similar to Lumosity. Also, when playing Lumosity, you can feel that your brain is learning different strategies and that experience translates into life. It translates to daily life right away. Do you mind if I quote a couple of your articles as long as I provide credit and sources back to your site? My blog is in the exact same niche as yours and my users would really benefit from some of the information you present here.

Please let me know if this ok with you. Hi, I do think this is a great web site. Money and freedom is the best way to change, may you be rich and continue to guide other people. I want to support what Microglia a psychologist says. The author of this blog is an uninformed writer who does not know how to research before publishing. I am a psychiatrist who treats Alzheimer patients and publishes in peer-reviewed journals.

This is why many respondents, listed above, have reported successes with video games as long as they have the escalating difficulty component. The problem with video games is they lack the control for stimulating each center of the brain. This is what Lumosity attempts. Great blog you have here.. I really appreciate individuals like you! Hey there are using WordPress for your site platform? Do you require any coding knowledge to make your own blog? Any help would be really appreciated! Having read this I thought it was rather enlightening. I appreciate you finding the time and effort to put this content together.

I once again find myself spending a lot of time both reading and commenting. Richard Using your brain does train it. It is how we learn. They have not done their homework. There are plenty of free brain exercise programmes available to anyone who Googles for them. The Lumosity site charges money and is advertising the promise of Anti Ageing.

If its product has this property where is their reliable, well conducted research to support their claims? That is what this discussion is about. But, scientists, even psychiatrists, normally prefer to form conclusions and base recommendations on sound science. This outfit is too lazy to support its claims soundly as it is aware that gullible consumers are not in short supply. Check out the page with pirated Lumosity games. Also some advanced games, which require results from previous game plays, are also useless to progress, since pirated ones do not save previous results.

However, you can challenge yourself with the most of them and check if it works or not. This general comment may or may not seem to readers of this blog to throw light on the discussion. IE nonetheless is the marketplace chief and a large component to folks will leave out your excellent writing due to this problem. The amount of fake-positive comments coming from the Luminosity camp is both glaringly obvious and damningly telling.

Dude, can you track back commenter IPs and see where the most blatant ones originate? Now THAT would make a good story! A few things about Lumositys claims to increase memory and attention: It is true that brain training games may produce changes in gray matter, there is a body of mid s literature on this, but its long term effects and implications for function in basic cognitive performance is debatable, right? Discounting this, the best studies that would place lumosity over any other form of brain training e. Tetris would be those studies that explicitly use Lumosity to assess basic metrics of cognitive performance.

The first of these has a serious conflict of interest: I dont think this is a good source. The second of these, published in Nuerophyscological Rehab, actually tests number sense, attention, etc. It is a before and after experiment with only 16 participants, and it does NOT include a control group!! The researchers do acknowledge this limitation in their paper. This is problematic for two reasons.

First, the finding that lumosity resulted in clinically significant increases in test taking may just be the result of training alone. Second, as we are making comparisons with a treatment group that is susceptible to problems with mathematical sense in general, the findings may represent a regression to mean computation, etc. So lumosity is making very inflated claims about its importance, relative to say super mario bros. Lumosity could do some decent research at modest cost if it were serious.

This topic really sucks, I got no words anymore after reading updates for a while. Some people are just hopelessly stubborn, if not to say more. And not the Lumosity, nor Tetris can help here. I proceed on the notion that they have come from the same person long-haired liberal , but if not, they are all from a like mind: You simply can not do it. There is nothing man can devise that will elevate you to his level. Dear Leo Thank you very much for your heartfelt abuse.

You have only made eight errors of fact in one paragraph, well done! But you did absolutely get right the fact that I am a lot smarter than you. This view I have repeated yet again here on this site for those who actually like to read what people say on it, before they indolently misrepresent the views of others. Do please try to keep up with the rest of the class. All best wishes Nuffin. I do see your problem, dear Arkadiy, but since I have only done the free trial part of Lumosity, I fear I may also be trapped for life in indescribable unsubsrcribinability.

Fortunately I am possibly a little older than you may be, so I shall, most likely, be released sooner than you are. This is not certain, of course, because, as you tell us you are a Scientist in your work, you will be aware that we have insufficient data to be sure of this. However, were you to use the part of your body somewhat, when you are erect, of course, above your anal passage, which latter appears to preoccupy you, you might find the brains to escape from this site, whereas I, sadly, will be here for years, caring for the less fortunate.

This piece of writing will assist the internet visitors for building up new web site or even a weblog from start to end. Sadly, I will also defend Luminosity. Just stretching your brain, however slightly, will improve it. When I say stretching your brain, I mean using, not stretching it, but it is a good metaphor in this case. Whats more, 20 people, while small, is still rectifiable. For Example, lets take Bob and Joe. Same Job, same family, same race, etc. Now put one on Crosswords, and one on Luminosity.

You have the control and the tester. Aside from this fact, I can personally say that any brain-helping game I have played has helped me. Now I will allow for a weakness to be seen: My brain is rated different enough by the school system to merit a new top level in some tests for my area. Not because I am smarter, but because I am differently wired than most. Using muscles is good for them.

How much younger it makes you is the stuff of bogus advertising claim. This is a model piece of medical research offered to the lovely advertising folk at Lumosity as a seasonal gesture of some sort;. Everything wear out eventually. Speeding up heart not make you live longer; it like saying you extend life of car by driving faster. Want to live longer? Should I reduce my alcohol intake? Wine made from fruit. Brandy distilled wine, that mean they take water out of fruity bit so you get even more of goodness that way.

Beer also made of grain. Well, if you have body and you have fat, your ratio one to one. If you have two body, your ratio two to one. What are some of the advantages of participating in a regular exercise program? Food fried in vegetable oil. How getting more vegetable be bad? Will sit-ups help prevent me from getting a little soft around the middle? When you exercise muscle, it get bigger. You should only be doing sit-up if you want bigger stomach. Is chocolate bad for me? It best feel-good food around! Is swimming good for your figure? If swimming good for figure, explain whale to me.

Is getting in shape important for my lifestyle? Well… I hope this has cleared up any misconceptions you may have had about food and diets. The Germans drink a lot of beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than Brits. The Germans drink a lot of beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than British people.

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