Can Zapping Your Neck Help You Quickly Learn A Foreign Language? Johns Hopkins University Reveals
Someday it may be possible for a soldier to stick a tiny electrode behind her ear in order to learn a foreign language more quickly.
That’s the goal of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency initiative that announced this week providing more than $50 million in funding for eight teams to research how to improve people’s ability to learn new things by stimulating the peripheral nervous system, which consists of the nerves that fan out from the brain and spinal cord.
That’s the goal of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency initiative that announced this week providing more than $50 million in funding for eight teams to research how to improve people’s ability to learn new things by stimulating the peripheral nervous system, which consists of the nerves that fan out from the brain and spinal cord.