Michael Scanlon is the science behind Lumosity. The co-founder and chief scientific officer is an expert in cognitive training and neuroplasticity. He created the Human Cognition Project, which ...

Companies like Lumosity have been wildly successful in selling online games that they claim will keep your brain sharp and stave off mental decline as you age. But no longer — the Federal Trade ...

Lumosity executives have agreed to pay out $2 million to settle claims of deceptive trade practices, after years of peddling games it promised would improve brain function. “Lumosity preyed on ...

As Lumosity’s customers — 60 million and growing — log on day after day, year after year since 2007, the information they generate from their play is collected into a giant repository of data, the ...

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 ...

For the past few years, the creators and marketers of a program called Lumosity have piqued the interest of Web surfers, radio listeners and TV viewers with ads promising the program can improve ...