Lumosity.com Brings Intelligence Training to the Web

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumosity.com announces the launch of a
powerful new game shown to improve intelligence. Working closely with the
scientists who made the original discovery, Lumosity.com has developed an
online version of the intelligence training program Dual N-Back. This new game
will be available to the more than 1.5 million registered members at
Lumosity.com, and it can be used by those interested in improving their
intelligence.

The Dual N-Back game improves intelligence and memory capacity by challenging
users to simultaneously remember items that they see and hear. Susanne Jaeggi,
Martin Buschkuehl, and John Jonides at the University of Michigan, and Walter
Perrig at the University of Bern (Switzerland) recently reported in the
ProceedingsoftheNationalAcademyofSciences that training on the Dual N-Back
task resulted in gains in working memory and fluid intelligence that were
significantly greater than those seen in the control group.

These findings shattered the long-held belief in the neuroscience community
that intelligence cannot be improved. This research also showed that the more
subjects trained, the more their fluid intelligence improved.

The Lumosity.com version of Dual N-Back replicates the training previously
used in the lab while making it available online. The program will be used to
facilitate further research in memory and intelligence training, with the
Lumosity Research Platform supporting data collection and study
administration.

"The online availability of the dual n-back task is a great step forward for
our ongoing research and we are happy having found Lumos Labs as a competent
partner," says Dr. Buschkuehl.

"We're excited to facilitate their research, and also to offer this powerful
intelligence training on Lumosity.com," said Michael Scanlon, Chief Science
Officer at Lumos Labs.

The researchers are now recruiting healthy 18-35 year-old volunteers to
participate in the ongoing study. Participants must be able to travel to Ann
Arbor, Michigan for testing. Learn more:
http://www.sitemaker.umich.edu/smartbrain

The intelligence training program is freely available for a limited time at
http://www.lumosity.com/training_applications/dual-n-back

AboutLumosLabs,Inc.
Lumos Labs is the cognitive neuroscience company behind Lumosity.com, the
leader and #1 destination for healthy online gaming with over 1.5 million
members. The programs are backed by studies showing that Lumosity training can
enhance brain performance in areas such as memory, attention, fluid
intelligence, and academic performance. The brain games are also broadly
available to users on third-party platforms including the iPhone, Palm Pre,
Yahoo! and Facebook. For more information on Lumos Labs, visit
www.lumosity.com.

AboutUniversityofMichigan'sCognitiveNeuroimagingLab
The Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab at the University of Michigan is headed by John
Jonides, PhD and mainly concerned with research about attention and memory
processes. A main focus of research is the development of cognitive training
paradigms that not only promote improvements in the trained task but also in
tasks that were not part of the training. For more information on the
University of Michigan's Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab, visit www.jonideslab.com.

SOURCE Lumosity.com

Joe Hardy of Lumos Labs, +1-415-814-1533, joe@lumosity.com