Improve your math with noise: A new study on brain stimulation

If you have problems with math, then you might like this new study - it can improve your math skills!

A new study from several universities found that using electrical noise stimulation on a specific part of the brain can help people who struggle with math learn better. 

Let's find out more about how noise can help you learn better and do math faster.

More about this surprising study

This study involved looking at how this type of brain stimulation affects learning, which is a bit different from regular learning.

They found that this electrical stimulation improved math skills for people who weren't very excited about math before they got the stimulation. 

But it didn't help those who already liked math or the people who didn't get the real stimulation.

The researchers think this stimulation works by messing with something called sodium channels in the brain, which makes brain cells more active.

How it was conducted

Specialists wanted to see if this new way of stimulating the brain could make learning math better.

They tested this on 102 people by giving them math problems and then dividing them into different groups. 

Some got the real brain stimulation, and some got fake (placebo) stimulation. They measured brain activity before and after the stimulation.

It might be really helpful

Dr. Nienke van Bueren said that people with less brain activity for math might benefit more from this stimulation, while those with a lot of brain activity might not see the same improvement in their math skills.

Specialists think this discovery could help us figure out how to use this brain stimulation to help people learn better, especially in math, and when it would be most effective.
 

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• 6 September 2023

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