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
>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.
Gross
>They kept putting me through these training exercises and I kept failing and being really overwhelmed. Everything was happening all at once—the fake people were running at me, and I didn’t know what order to dispatch them in. It was incredibly frustrating, and I had this entire script of self-recrimination running through my head the entire time. It was just vicious. Then I started just having really negative thoughts. I was thinking this is all garbage, my whole job is garbage—just catastrophizing.>Then the tech came in and switched the current on, and it was like somebody had put noise cancelling headphones on me. I couldn’t hear any of that [negative thoughts] anymore. I did the training again and thought this is completely fine; I know exactly what I’m doing; what’s all the fuss? I was actually really enjoying it. >After three minutes, the tech came in (normally, the runs were taking about 20 minutes to get through), and I had dispatched all the bad guys and was waiting the next wave, and said, “it’s done.” I was really surprised—actually, really annoyed—because I was thinking so now, I get it right for the first time and you stop it early. I said, “but I’ve only been here for a couple of minutes.” She said “no,” and I looked at the clock and was shocked to find that 20 minutes had passed. The researcher [in charge] said it was a common response that time starts to fly quite quickly.https://thebulletin.org/2023/05/qa-how-darpa-hacked-a-science-writers-brain-and-turned-her-into-a-sharpshooter/
There's a bunch of different electrode placements you can do to get different effects, like improving focus, energy, mood, mathematical ability, motor learning, and more https://neuromyst.com/montage-guide/https://tdcs.com/montage-guide/
Sounds like a load of shite
>>537871714every nigger and pajeet should be forced to wear this cap from birth
>>537872346Not entirely, but how would it act on a topology already tending towards hyperfocus ... from what I understand they might just suppress certain neuronal networks running interference on that process. But admittedly, currently not in the mood to dissect that issue ...
>>537871714Many things are downstream from DARPA and there is a group of people who pay the big bucks to bring their projects first to market for the consumer due to its ability to influence others. You can control reality layers with DARPA projects. Few understand this.
>>537876188>Few understand this.Probably how they do get funding in the first place. :p
>>537871714So electro shock therapy improves speed of learning?
>>537871714I seen mind control redpill, no electrodes near my gray matteralso if you change writer into sharpshooter, you can basically overwrite brainwhat can go wrong with that?
>>537877420Conditioning. Certainly. Learning?>Will they ever learn ...You tell me ... stakes are about one in a bottleneck, XO. :)
>>537871714>non-invasive capeveryone gets their very own kippah
