Electricity can improve brain performance - For most people, math is considered as a scourge. Provide a solution to the problem, researchers at Oxford University have a crazy idea. Students are given an electric shock to the brain for learning math.
Belief, is claimed to be a powerful way to stimulate students' math skills increased by one third. Students go faster arithmetic, five times faster.
Reported by Dailymail, May 17, 2013, researchers have applied this method on 51 students. Half of their electricity powered light that passes through the brain when learning mathematics. Then the students were asked to recall the numbers and add up.
After five 45-minute sessions, 25 participants were given brain stimulation for 20 minutes. As a result, students with electrical stimulation was significantly better than students without electricity.
In fact, the trial six months later, the students with the power it has the ability to calculate 30 percent faster.
"This study shows that a safe and inexpensive way for us to promote math with limited intervention," said Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh, principal investigator for the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.
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Kadosh Roi also confirmed that this method is safe, painless and do not attack the brains of students.
Unfortunately, he did not explain how electrical stimulation works. However, the brain scans showed students improve electricity supply of oxygen and nutrients to the brain.
About how therapy violate ethics, Kadosh said that the goal of this therapy was solely to help people who are limited math skills.
An estimated one in five people struggling with basic arithmetic skills. While one in 15 people are people with dyscalculia, or difficult to compute.
"This technique could also be used by the normal or above normal to improve their skills," he said.
"This therapy is open to debate, whether this would cheat or not. If this effective way for all people, then we will show that this is not deceptive," Kadosh said.
This research has been published in the journal Current Biology.
Source :teknologi.news.viva.co.id
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