Lumosity, which creates brain-training exercises and games, has raised $31.5 million in additional funding to help enhance cognitive studies and performance around the world. The San Francisco-based ...

Everyone wants to be better: more beautiful, more exciting, more intelligent. It’s how the self-help industry thrives, why gyms get swamped after New Year’s, why kale is a thing. It’s why Lumosity, a ...

Lumosity has quietly amassed more than 14 million members for its brain-training games, which help you improve your core mental abilities. That in turn has enabled the company to raise $32.5 million ...

As a neuroscience PhD candidate at Stanford, Michael Scanlon explored the effects of cognitive training through small-scale experiments on fish and rats. Now, seven years after dropping out to start a ...

If your lexicon has stagnated a bit since your SAT-studying days, it may be time to expand your vocabulary. After all, there’s nothing like a word no one knows to break the ice in awkward social ...

Lumosity released impressive growth numbers for its online brain training games. The company has added 6 million additional members since June 2011 for a total of 20 million registered users. Sign up ...

Lumosity has been offering online brain games since 2007, and has used its gaming platform to develop a database of human cognitive performance. Now the company has proven that its focus on braininess ...

Lumosity, the online brain-training company popular with consumers, is now looking to sharpen the minds of the country's military. The San Francisco-based company received the Navy grant--one of more ...

With more than 35,000 registered users — and more than 600 million game plays — Lumosity has a strong presence in the brain-training circuit. Users’ cognitive abilities are rated on a Brain ...

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