BRAIN DUMP Lumos Labs is amassing an enormous amount of cognitive performance data by tracking its customers’ performance on the company’s brain-training games. Mining the data may produce new ways of spotting early stages of diseases such as Alzheimer’s or even more fundamental insights into how the brain works.
If you own a television, a computer or a smartphone, you may have seen ads for Lumosity, the brain-training regimen that promises to sharpen your wits and improve your life.
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