Lumosity helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Flexibility:Adapting and adjusting to changing conditions and expectations. 

Many of the games in the Lumosity app ask students to adapt to frequent changes. While many other EF skills are targeted, the changing nature of each game requires students to practice their flexibility skills. For example, in the game Ebb and Flow, students watch as two colors of leaves flow across the screen. For orange leaves, they swipe in the direction the leaves are flowing while with green leaves they swipe in the direction the leaves are pointing. Because the colors switch randomly, students need to exercise flexibility and remember what tasks align to which leaf color. 

Self-Control: Managing our actions, feelings and behaviors.  

Several games in the Lumosity app deal with impulse control. Students are asked to think before they act, as rash decisions affect their overall performance in the games. For example, in the game Playing Koi, students have to feed several koi in a pond exactly once. If they overfeed a koi, they must start the level over. To resist simply clicking on any fish, students have to exercise self-control and pay attention to which fish have already been fed.