Questions tagged [cognitive-enhancement]
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Will acquiring a second language improves the person's general intelligence and reading?
According to this information will acquiring a second language improves the person's general intelligence and reading, even if the individual started learning and have learned it after the age of 18?
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Does the Rubik's Cube increase mental ability?
Does becoming efficient in the cube help build your brain to be able to do other tasks better? What tasks and how?
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Can the brain be enhanced by adding more neurons?
I was wondering of ways to enhance the brain. Couldn't we add a sort of substance to improve the brain? Will it somehow adapt? The brain should 'wire up' the new substance to the existing one.
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Do stimulants increase the IQ tests score for everyone?
There is some meta-analytic evidence that stimulants increase the IQ test scores of ADHD children by 2 to 7 points (Jepsen et al., 2009).
Although giving stimulants to non-ADHD children may be ...
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Can Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), or a magnets cap make you smarter?
According to wikipedia, TMS is a bunch of magnetic fields directed to the brain which stimulates and activates neurons.
If I wear a cap full of magnets, will it stimulate my neurons?
If yes, will a ...
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Can learning be facilitated by transcranial magnetic stimulation?
I read a book a while ago called The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge (2007), and it brought to my attention a machine known as a transcranial magnetic stimulator (TMS) which can ...
