Dawn
18th December 2011, 23:25
Source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2037827/How-electric-shock-brain-improve-life-stroke-victims.html
Bright sparks: Electrodes on your skull let you learn the piano faster - and could even turn you into a star sportsman
Attaching a nine-volt battery to electrodes on your scalp can speed up the process of learning how to do sequences of button-presses such as learning to play a piece of music on the piano, a study has found.
'In future, we hope to use this, for example, to train sports people faster at tennis or rowing, simply by stimulating their brain,' Professor Johansen-Berg at the University of Oxford told Mail Online today.
'We targeted a specific area of the brain that affects motor function, but is possible that similar technology could be used to make children do better at school - although that obviously raises ethical or moral questions.' Brain scientists say that in just five years, we will have ¿thinking caps¿ that can be worn at home and they could even be used to wake up white matter damaged by stroke.
Brain scientists say that in just five years, we will have ¿thinking caps¿ that can be worn at home and they could even be used to wake up white matter damaged by stroke.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2037827/How-electric-shock-brain-improve-life-stroke-victims.html
Bright sparks: Electrodes on your skull let you learn the piano faster - and could even turn you into a star sportsman
Attaching a nine-volt battery to electrodes on your scalp can speed up the process of learning how to do sequences of button-presses such as learning to play a piece of music on the piano, a study has found.
'In future, we hope to use this, for example, to train sports people faster at tennis or rowing, simply by stimulating their brain,' Professor Johansen-Berg at the University of Oxford told Mail Online today.
'We targeted a specific area of the brain that affects motor function, but is possible that similar technology could be used to make children do better at school - although that obviously raises ethical or moral questions.' Brain scientists say that in just five years, we will have ¿thinking caps¿ that can be worn at home and they could even be used to wake up white matter damaged by stroke.
Brain scientists say that in just five years, we will have ¿thinking caps¿ that can be worn at home and they could even be used to wake up white matter damaged by stroke.