VIDEO: The Military Discovered A Way To Boost Soldiers' Memories, And We Tried It
October 22, 20195:01 AM ET
Elise Hu
An experiment funded by the U.S. military meant to sharpen soldiers' minds for the battlefield has found a way to improve memory: by zapping subjects' brains with tiny bursts of electricity during sleep.
In a multi-year study at the University of New Mexico, volunteers received a fraction of 9-volt battery's worth of electrical stimulation to their scalps while they slept at the lab. When they woke up, they were asked to play a video game they had learned the day before. Turns out that subjects were significantly better at it after the night spent in the lab.
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/22/769403296/video-the-military-discovered-a-way-to-boost-soldiers-memories-and-we-tried-it
