Feb 27, 2023
THIS EPISODE OF GROWING OLDER LIVING
YOUNGER focuses on improving your cognitive
functioning through playing computer brain training
games.
Today’s Featured
Expert discussing the
neuroscience of
cognitive training and the Lumosity brain training program, is
Bob Schafer, President of Lumos Labs Medical, and Chief Science Officer at
Lumos Labs (Lumosity)
We
discuss the neuroscience of cognition and
Lumos Labs Human Cognition Project,
how the Lumosity platform is built around
training cognitive
skills through engaging digital games, what you, the consumer, can learn
from regularly training on Lumosity, and how Lumos Labs is working
in the new frontier of digital
medicine.
Episode Timeline:
0:11 Introduction to this
episode
5:16 Introduction to the Human
Cognition Project
12:48 The Lumosity database
16:23 What
percentage of users stick with the program?
21:03 The importance of
engagement in brain training.
26:54 How to assess your
performance
35:14 Are there
mental barriers to
progress?
Speaker
Bio:
Bob earned his PhD in
neuroscience from Stanford University and was a postdoctoral fellow
at MIT. He has published original research in top journals
including Science and Neuron. Prior to joining Lumos Labs, he was
founder and CEO of a YCombinator-funded startup company that used
neuroscience and predictive analytics to improve hiring decisions
and team development.
In 2015, Bob and his startup team joined
Lumos Labs. Here, Bob has served in a number of roles leading
research, product, and business initiatives, including the
formation of the company's Lumos Labs Medical division. Over 100
million people in the Lumosity community have combined to play more
than 7 billion cognitive gameplays across more than 15 years,
providing, along with the Lumos Labs "Human Cognition Project,”,
unique insights into the brain and mind.
Learn more about Lumosity at these
links
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-schafer-4171554/
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