Cool… improving memory via electrode stimulation. A pacemaker for the memory center for the brain.
Damn you MATLAB! Some notes I googled up that helped me with setting up the output of fft() in matlab.
Wow… I thought multitasking would make you sharper. It seems that it just screws the regions of the brain required for higher-level thinking and learning. See this article from The Atlantic. Haha! They give a great example of multitasking… and I quote:
While the president continued talking on the phone (Ms. Lewinsky understood that the caller was a Member of Congress or a Senator), she performed oral sex on him.
From Forbes.com:
It has been a rough 12 months for the stock market, including technology stocks. The S&P 500 is off 2.1% over the past 12 months (dividends excluded) and the Nasdaq 100 Tech Index is off 8.7%. But you could have done well owning the really hot technology companies. A year ago we published our annual list of America’s 25 fastest-growing technology companies. Those stocks have gained 16% over the same time period.
WIRED Science on PBS online has a cool segment on how human sensory inout can be rewired. They show how neuroscientists have successfully helped a blind man see by using a camera to stimulate his tounge and how they rewired the brain of a woman who lost her sense of balance by using input from an accelerometer.
