Automated Matrix-style learning demonstrated →
A US-Japanese team of researchers have demonstrated a system that uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) feedback to attune a person’s visual cortex to match the brain patterns needed to perform various high-performance tasks with little or no conscious effort. The researchers, from Boston University (BU) and ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories (Kyoto), acknowledge their system’s similarity to the computer-driven rapid learning methods depicted in the Matrix series of motion pictures. Reporting their findings in Science, the researchers say the techniques they have developed could be used to learn to play a piano, reduce mental stress or hit a curve-ball with little or no conscious effort.
(Source: scienceagogo.com)
