They also have makeup that they falsified. I have tried and tried to get them to stop, but they will not. It has been overa year and every month I see they have charged me again. I would like to also file charges on them. I just don't have the money to do this. I got my email link and was able to close the auto renewal today!
It gets really hard to track these online recurring subscriptions and given that the premise is to help forgetful people improve their memory Luminosity must've known their 'cognitively impaired' groups were doomed to 'forget' to cancel, especially when the recurring payment is processed on a 2 or 3 year cycle.
Thank you! This would be even better if the consumers got refunds or something in addition to the 'right to cancel. Why don't you let consumers decide if they are getting what they want from the games?
Another case of "I'm from the government and I'm here to screw you". Please, please, get out of DC and find productive work. I was in a serious car accident with substantial head injuries. One of my physicians mentioned Lumosity as a possible idea to help my flailing cognitive processes recover from the brain injury I sustained.
I was skeptical, but I tried it. I was impressed. It really did help my short term memory lapses and brain fog. Was I getting better at the games? With that much practice, who wouldn't? But there were trackable, sustained markers outside of the games. I wasn't losing track of things, my short term memory had greatly improved, almost returning to normal, I could remember names again, and I returned to work as the executive director of an international ministry and have been able to pick up my fast - paced life again with very little noticeable differences from my pre-accident state.
I stopped the games after one year. I have experienced no further improvement since I stopped. I was ready to go back and start again to see if the improvements would continue even after a one year hiatus. Now I see all this hoopla about the program. It worked for me. If it did not, I would have stopped. The FTC does not need to tell me anything, I have documented experience.
I did not get a prize for anything. I quietly use the service and it saved me from a serious brain injury. I have recommended it to several others; a high school football player who had several severe concussions, a woman in her 70's who noted to me she was experiencing "mental decline" I say try it. They had millions of folks using this service. There can't be that many "idiots" who have simply been fleeced, as the FTC implies. I am one of the many who saw noticeable, trackable, sustained improvement from a brain injury, at my doctor's recommendation, using this program.
I have witnessed others who have had the same results. Keep a log. Note your improvements. Then decide for yourself. Don't follow the lemmings over the cliff. One tested their working memory in a certain task that they had been trained on, and the other tested them on another, related task that they received no specific training in. The second task engaged the same brain areas as the first. The researchers compared the results with those of a control group that received no training whatsoever, but whose participants were tested only on the second task.
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In , the Stanford Center on Longevity published an open letter signed by 69 international neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists saying that there is no compelling scientific evidence that playing brain games improves cognitive abilities in everyday life, although isolated benefits could exist.
Two years later, a team of psychologists with expertise in intervention research, reviewed every scientific study cited by major brain-training companies in support of their products.
As well as trawling the company websites, the reviewers also looked at published papers referenced on www. The review, published in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest , did not only question how the evidence was reported and interpreted, but the way many of the studies were designed. The criticism included small sample sizes, inadequate control groups and cherry picking research outcomes to report.
So, if the science is so flawed, why do people feel the need to train their brains with these apps and games? Debra Abbate, a year-old woman from the US, uses the Elevate app daily, usually in the mornings when she wakes up. Neither improved more than the other. The more you play Mario Kart, the better you are going to be at it. First, it was done in a very specific group: young, healthy people without any pre-existing conditions that might affect their memory.
However, all three groups—including the video game group and the control—improved in much the same way. So according to Kable and his colleagues, there clearly was some room for improvement. Anguera says the other problem could be that the training was not specific enough to cause a change. The key, he says, is that the game needs to target the right cognitive processes—in the right population—to help with specific deficits.
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