Anyone tried Lumosity.com?

[Bloodhammer]

I have no idea if "brain games" actually help cognition, but I'm willing to be a guinea pig as long as I don't get snow crashed like in the sci-fi book. (I'm kidding ) My neurons could use a bit of grease.

I just made a profile and did today's "training" exercise and this looks like it will get pretty freakin' hard after a while. Anyone else tried it?

After a good bit of time, I'm thinking about trying to do math problems with a severe hangover or something like that to see if/how well it worked.

http://www.lumosity.com/app/v4/personalization

BTW, I didn't "upgrade to full access". I only do free stuff on teh interwebz!

.........Except TB

 

[BoomingBass]

Hmm, this looks cool, I'll have to try it out later.

 

[afzoomie67]

I don't wanna pay for it, but it looks good.

 

[droo46]

I find it so strange that normal life offers so little physical and mental stimulation that we have to have things like gyms and brain games. The average human is probably so bored.

 

[DiabolusInMusic]

No... I actually laughed quite hard when I saw the commercial.

They did a bunch of independent tests years ago after the DS game out because they were pumping out all those make your brain smarter games... they don't do spit. They do take your money though and probably provide some kind of nice placebo effect.

 

[Bloodhammer]

That's why I'm not paying for it.

If it doesn't do jack for me, it wont matter since I waste a lot more time than that per day here on TB.