In order to improve your mental abilities, you need, as you know, "to gnaw the granite of science." But many are trying to find an easier way. And perhaps, researchers from McGill University in Canada and scientists from HRL Laboratories have developed a new device that can increase human mental abilities.
About the new development reports edition of the Daily Mail. According to the report, the device is an electrostimulator of the brain, and the Department of Defense’s promising research projects is funding the development.
For operation, the device uses direct current, which stimulates the prefrontal cortex of the cerebral hemispheres. She is known to be responsible for such cognitive functions as memory, attention and decision making. As scientists say, the application of the development improves communication between different areas of the brain, which contributes to more rapid learning. Electrodes of a helmet fasten to the head without surgical intervention.
It is worth noting that the device has already passed a series of tests on primates. During the tests, the animals needed to identify the place where the food lay on the basis of a number of signs using visual tags. As a result, the animal needed 22 attempts to learn how to determine the relationship between tags and food. However, after stimulation by direct current, a group of primates learned this in just 12 attempts.
Scientists hope that their method can be used in the future to stimulate areas of the brain responsible for learning. Including for training the military, accelerating the acquisition of new skills.
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