From popsci.com:

Games and puzzles have a long history of “teasing” your brain so that it gets bigger and badder, and eventually smarter. Lumos Labs, a San Francisco-based cognitive neuroscience research company, recently released a series of games—under the title Lumosity—designed to improve a whole gamut of brain functions.

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If you want to try some of Lumosity’s games, Popsci.com has three you can play right now (for free!). Speed Match works on attention and memory; Word Bubbles improves vocabulary; and Memory Matrix beefs up the part of your brain in charge of remembering names, the locations of objects, and reasoning.

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From theiphoneblog.com:

The folks at lumosity.com understand the importance of exercising your brain and have a scientifically-proven method for doing so. Fortunately, exercising your brain doesn’t require expensive equipment or hauling around heavy workout apparatus – if you own an iPhone or iPod Touch and can summon the physical strength to tap the glass, you can start exercising your brain now with their app, Speed Brain.

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Speed Brain quickens the mind through a series of matching or mismatched images that the user must then quickly react and identify matching images in quick succession. Accuracy and speed will produce a higher score, which will be saved to monitor your progress and for comparison with your friends who are also using Speed Brain.

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From wcco.com:

Education may be potent medicine for keeping Alzheimer’s disease at bay, according to a study in November’s “Archives of Neurology.”

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Online subscription services such as Lumosity are popping up as well. A wide variety of entertaining Lumosity games challenge recall and reasoning skills. The company’s own research says its cognitive training program significantly improves visual attention and working memory. A company spokesperson says independent, third party research studies are underway.

The process of forging new intellectual pathways in the brain is called neuroplasticity. It can be accomplished in many ways other than high-tech exercises. It can be as simple as learning a new language or taking up a musical instrument.

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