From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jun 22 2003 - 03:01:11 MDT
I'm skeptical, too, but I'm thinkin', an interseting
test would be its effect (or non-effect) on
chess-playing performance.
Also, the article seemed to suggest that the putative
effect comes from affecting specific regions of the
brain. A more detailed description of how the device
functions should show a correlation (well duh!)
between the known areas of brain activity during
certain tasks (as predetermined by MRI, PET or some
such brain activity scanning/mapping technique) and
the brain areas "focused on"/affected by the device.
Best, Jeff Davis
"Everything's hard till you know how to do it."
Ray Charles
--- Ramez Naam <mez@apexnano.com> wrote:
> From: Harvey Newstrom
> [mailto:mail@HarveyNewstrom.com]
> > -randy wrote,
> > > More interesting stuff on TMS, cutting edge
> brain manipulation
> > > technology, from the NY Times:
> > >
> > >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/magazine/22S>
> AVANT.html?pagewanted=1
> >
> > 1. This is simply amazing!
>
> No controls, no quantificaton of results, no
> peer-reviewed papers on
> the topic. I'm skeptical.
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