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.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news