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Shock Study: Mild Electric Stimulation Boosts Math Ability
- Earlier this week, the University of Surrey launched a £50 million research centre focused on brain stimulation therapies led by an international team.
- Amid pandemic-related declines in math achievement, research shows biological factors contribute to the Matthew effect, underscoring the need for targeted intervention centers.
- Researchers from the University of Oxford found that 72 students received 150 minutes of transcranial random noise stimulation over five days, boosting low performers' scores by 25–29%.
- The team suggests brain stimulation may help disadvantaged learners, but it worsened performance in math professors and had minimal effect on high performers.
- Future plans include expanding to support ADHD and learning disorders, with at-home device readiness pending further research, aiming to reduce long-term educational inequalities.
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New Study Says Zapping The Brain With Electricity May Boost Math Skills
human-brain-electricity A new study by researchers from University Of Surrey, Swansea University, and the University of Oxford claims mild, carefully-controlled electrical shocks to the brain can improve a person’s math skills. They also added, in a massive understatement, that this technology is not yet ready for use at home. In the study, published Tuesday in the journal PLOS Biology, the researchers wrote, “To deepen our understanding of the …
An electric stimulation of your brain could remedy this, advances Tuesday a team of international scientists.
Do you have difficulties with mathematics? A slight electrical stimulation of your brain could solve it, suggests this Tuesday a team of international scientists, whose conclusions illuminate the connections between brain activity and learning processes.
Researchers placed electrodes on the skull and applied low-voltage alternating current - The least good math students showed a 25-29% improvement
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