Research results, published recently, suggests it may be possible to learn to play a piano or hit a curve ball with little or no conscious effort. Using neuro-feedback technology called functional magnetic resonance imaging to, as the researchers stated, induce brain activity patterns to match a previously known target state. In other words, something very like if not exactly.....instant learning.
From the NSF article:
From the NSF article:
- Think of a person watching a computer screen and having his or her brain patterns modified to match those of a high-performing athlete or modified to recuperate from an accident or disease. Though preliminary, researchers say such possibilities may exist in the future.
What is even stranger and a bit unsettling is that in early experiments - subjects that were exposed visually to magnetic resonance imaging feedback to in hopes of improving visual tasks were not even aware they had been "taught" a task.
Read the complete NSF article here IO9 article here
