In the new controlled, randomized trial involving 128 healthy young adults, researchers found that playing Lumosity brain-training games for 30-minute sessions, five times a week for 10 weeks resulted in participants getting better at playing the games.
The same went for participants who played video games not designed with cognitive benefits in mind.
Brain-training games are said to exercise-and potentially improve the function of-those same areas of the brain.
The use of video games as a counterpoint to the brain-training games was to control for all the cognitive stimulation overlaps between using digital games.
At the end, playing brain training games improved participants' ability to play the brain training games.
In other words, this study confirms what many of us probably knew: Luminosity is basically Big Brain Academy but less fun. Don't waste your money thinking it'll help you get smarter, folks.