
Neuroscience Reference and Glossary
Welcome to Lumosity’s reference pages and neuroscience glossary, which we hope will clarify any terms or processes that may be pertinent but unfamiliar as you embark on a brain training regimen and begin to learn more about how the mind works. This resource page will continually evolve as more material is added to the Knowledge Center. We invite you to email us at glossary@lumoslabs.com if you have any suggestions or requests for additions.
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Acuity
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Adaptation
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Adrenaline
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Aggregate Field
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Alzheimer’s disease
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Amino acids
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Amnesia
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Aphasia
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Arithmetic
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Association cortex
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Attention
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Attentional Blink
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Autoreceptor
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Axon
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Axon Terminal
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Blood brain barrier
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Brain
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Brain Fitness Program
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Brainstem
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CAT scan
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Central nervous system
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Cerebellum
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Cerebral cortex
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Cerebrum
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Chronic stress
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Circadian rhythm
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Cognition
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Cognitive neuroscience
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Cognitive reserve
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Cognitive training
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Dentate gyrus
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Dopamine
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EEG
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Encoding
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Endorphin
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Epinephrine
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Episodic memory
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Executive function
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Face-Name Recall
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Fissures
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fMRI
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Focus
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Forebrain
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Free radicals
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Frontal lobe
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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Glia
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Glycine
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Gray or Grey matter
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Growth factors
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Gyrus
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Habituation
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Hemispheres
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Hindbrain
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Hippocampus
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Hormones
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Hypothalamus
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Information Processing
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Interneurons
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Lesion
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Limbic system
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Lobes
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Logical Reasoning
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Long-term and Working Memory
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Long-term potentiation
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Longterm depression (LTD)
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Longterm memory
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
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Medulla oblongata
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Memory
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Midbrain
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Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)
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Motor cortex
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MRI
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Neocortex
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Nervous system
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Neural stem cell
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Neurogenesis
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Neuron
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Neuroplasticity
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Neuroscience
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Neurotransmitters
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Neurotrophic factors
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Occipital lobe
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Parallel processing
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Parietal lobe
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Peptides
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Perception
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Planning
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Plaques and tangles
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Plasticity
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Pons
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Premotor cortex
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Primary afferent (sensory) neuron
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Primary motor cortex
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Process
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Processing speed
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Proteins
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Quantitative Reasoning
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Radicals
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Receptor
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Reflex
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Reinforcement
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Response Inhibition
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Serial processing
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Serotonin
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Short term memory
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Somatic nervous system
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Spatial memory
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Spatial Orientation
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Spatial Recall
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Specificity
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Sympathetic nervous system
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Synapse
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Task Switching
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Temporal lobe
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Thalamus
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Vasodilation
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Ventricles
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Verbal Fluency
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Vision
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Visual cortex
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Visual Field
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White matter
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Working memory
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