DARPA's New Brain Device Increases Learning Speed by 40%
In their study published, which has been published in the journal Current Biology, the HRL team describes how they used non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to stimulate the prefrontal cortex in the macaques. The macaques that wore the tDCS brain device significantly outperformed the control group. The former needed only 12 trials to learn how to immediately get the reward, while the latter needed 21 trials, with the tDCS device accounting for the 40 percent increase in learning speed, according to the researchers. All in the Mind The ability to increase one’s brain function almost instantaneously is no doubt appealing. However, the DARPA researchers claim their device is cheap, which may make it more appealing than other technologies like it.
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