Scientists have found a way to double the rate at which you learn things>A brain device that can increase learning by up to 40 percent has been revealed by scientists funded by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA). While the device was originally tested on macaques, researchers said it could be a cheap and non-invasive way of "altering functional connectivity in humans" in the future.>The device is a non-invasive cap that stimulates parts of the brain via electrical currents. It was developed by researchers at HRL Laboratories, California, McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and Soterix Medical in New York.>In their experiments, the team performed "non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation"—or tDCS—on a set of macaques. They stimulated the prefrontal cortex and got them to perform a task based on associative learning. In order to get a reward, they had to learn associations between a visual cue and a location. >The macaques would forage for the reward after getting the visual cue.>The findings, published in the journal Current Biology, showed that macaques in the control group took 22 trials before they had learned to get the reward straight away. It took the tDCS group just 12 trials. The tDCS device accounted for a 40 percent increase in learning speed, the authors say.https://www.newsweek.com/darpa-device-boosts-learning-brain-connections-692693
>>533988205>In 2007, science writer and editor Sally Adee attended a technology conference for DARPA—The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—when she learned about a brain surface electrical stimulation method that allegedly cut in half the time it takes a person to go from novice to expert in sharpshooting. Known as trans cranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), the brain stimulation technique was also presented as a way to potentially speed up language learning and mathematical aptitude.>Adee was struck by the idea of surface brain stimulation and for several years worked on convincing the Department of Defense agency to grant her permission to try it out for herself. In 2011, she flew from London to California to participate in an army training simulation. With a device on her head delivering electrical currents, Adee went from a frustrated shooter to a skilled sniper.>Adee: The research that I was interested in ostensibly improved focus to let people enter sort of a flow state, which amplifies learning ability. Just so you know, what I did was just a Gonzo stunt. Basically, it was just “here’s how it feels to try this,” and it so happened to work really well for me.
>>533988205>electroshock boosts energyno shit, if i got shocked i would certainly not feel sleepy and be highly alert
>>533988205What happens if I hook it up to my penis?
>>533988205Already own one this is old news
>>533988205So this is just to make browns and blacks learn gooder when their deleterious effects on society can no longer be ignored right?
>>533988422No, it probably makes them learn worse. You can't out nig the nigger.
>>533988205can I learn kung fu?
>>533988526Yeah but you gotta buy the DLC
>>533988573and then I can learn kung fru?
>>533988205(prole retards using it to memorize niggerball stats, study up on mentally retarded schizo conspiracies, etc.)
>>533988526>>533988659You can place the electrodes in certain positions to improve motor learning
>>533988205The real fun begins when you add a feedback monitor to the system that lets you know if you're getting "closer" or "farther" from the flow state
>>533988205This might help you remember stuff but its not going to help you "learn" anything to learn something takes knowledge and experience and using it. Im baffled theres not a physical aspect to IQ test there's no way a piece of paper with shapes and word problems can judge a person's intelligence
>>533988205Can it make me play the guitar faster?
>>533989091>make melet you
>>533988205what could possibly go wrong?
>>533989296Fair enough. I'm not getting any faster and a friend of mine wants to play some Pantera songs.
>>533989296>>533989410I thought I knew English fairly well. Bots?
>>533989521there is no spoon
