Still Thinking

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Legends abound of people getting struck by lightning and suddenly being able to play Bach piano concertos effortlessly. Is this kind of brainpower boost for real? Professor Allan Snyder, of Sydney University’s Centre of the Mind, seems to think so: he’s been working on a literal “thinking cap” for over a decade now. Snyder believes that with the right kind of stimulus, a person’s brain functions can be successfully enhanced for a certain period of time. In his experiments, he zaps willing participants’ brains with low-level electric boosts, and finds that they are 40% more capable of “new modes of thinking.”

 I want one.