“We think of it as a gym for the brain,” says Kunal Sarkar, CEO of San Francisco-based Lumosity. The company’s online games challenge users in five cognitive-skill areas–speed, memory, attention, ...

One of the hottest ideas in the tech world now is the quantified self — the concept of monitoring oneself, recording the data, and using it for self-improvement. This has been applied mostly to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael Scanlon is the science behind Lumosity. The co-founder and chief scientific officer is an expert in cognitive training and ...