Skills and learning improved by closed-loop electrical brain stimulation during sleep

(HRL Laboratories) HRL Laboratories publish the first study using closed-loop slow-wave transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) of the brain during sleep to increase human subjects' ability to generalize experience in a target detection task, improving overnight performance change for novel situations by about 48%. Developed for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), the technique is for accelerating learning, memory, and skill acquisition.

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