Thursday, March 27, 2014

Electric "thinking cap" helps people learn from their mistakes

tDCS has come a long way from Giovanni Aldini's 1802 pioneering treatment of Luigi Lanzari...
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  •  Vanderbilt psychology Professor Geoffrey Woodman and graduate student Robert Reinhart have just published the results of a new study in the Journal of Neuroscience in which they found that tDCS stimulation of the mediofrontal cortex for a period of minutes can change one's ability to recognize and learn from error for a period of several hours
  • Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has become a widely used technique for reaching into a person's brain and altering the way in which it functions. 

  • Our brains work on electro-chemical currents passing through and between nerve cells.
  • The process of learning involves training the brain to prefer some patterns of neuron activity over others.

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