

In it, half of the 4,715 participants who completed the study trained five days per week, for fifteen minutes each day on Lumosity while the other half did online crossword puzzles as an active control.Īfter 10 weeks, Lumosity users improved more than the control group on our assessments of working memory, short term memory, processing speed, problem solving, fluid reasoning, and overall cognitive function. To make matters more intriguing, the activity was found in the “hot zone” of the brain-the junction between the temporal, parietal, and occipital lobes in the back-an area connected to dreaming and altered states of consciousness.Lumos Labs conducted a randomized study of Lumosity brain training and published the results in a peer-reviewed research journal. It’s also closely associated with consciousness. Gamma wave activity is not only the fastest brain activity.

That backing comes in the form of conscious-like brain activity observed in comatose patients immediately prior to their death.Ī study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, highlights how two comatose patients-who died after a cardiac arrest event-had a sudden spike in gamma wave activity in the brain and a bump in heart rate after they were removed from a ventilator.

The mysterious near-death-experiences we’re eager to understand may have some additional scientific backing, according to researchers at the University of Michigan. Researchers remain unsure what the data means, but it could show evidence of “hidden consciousness” near death.The gamma wave activity of two patients shortly before death is considered the fastest brain activity possible.Study shows a surge of activity in a dying brain, leading to more questions about human neurology.
