Speed Brain, a brain fitness and training game, available for Palm Pre

June 16, 8:21 PMSan Jose Fitness ExaminerAmy Rabinovitz

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Brain Fitness from Lumosity available
on the Palm Pre

This is, after all, Silicon Valley, and in these parts - fitness means brain fitness too.  So all you folks who are debating the new Palm Pre - here's another reason to love it.

Lumosity.com announced the launch of Speed Brain, a brain fitness game for the new Palm Pre phone. (The game is already available for the iPhone and iPod Touch)

(If you're not keeping up with how important brain fitness is, check out this article from the New York Times)

Anyway, here's the skinny straight from the Lumosity folks:

"We're excited to launch the first brain training game on webOS," said Kunal Sarkar, CEO of Lumos Labs. "We've been working with Palm over the last few months and feel that webOS is a great platform to deliver games that are good for you."

Lumosity.com is one of the participants in Palm's launch partner program. "Pre users will get a mental workout with Speed Brain, and we're excited to include it in our beta version of Pre's App Catalog, to give a taste of what webOS has to offer," said Pam Deziel, vice president, Developer Marketing, Palm, Inc.

The Lumosity.com games and training programs were developed by a team of neuroscientists to enhance cognitive performance and brain health at any age. Lumosity's platform includes over 30 online games and assessments to test and enhance cognitive abilities. The training programs are backed by scientific studies and are now the focus of clinical research at some of the leading universities in the US and Canada.

"We're excited to take basic neuroscience and psychology findings out of the lab and deliver them to Palm Pre users in a way that is actually improving their lives," said Michael Scanlon, Chief Scientific Officer of Lumos Labs.

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