Rare counting ability induced by temporarily switching off brain region
BPS Research Digest: Rare counting ability induced by temporarily switching off brain region
Twelve healthy participants were given several chances to estimate,
from 50 to 150, how many blobs appeared on a computer screen. The blobs
appeared for just 1.5 seconds, and the number of blobs changed on each
attempt. Remarkably, the performance of ten of the subjects improved
drastically after Snyder’s team applied 15 minutes of low frequency
transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to their left anterior temporal
lobe, a brain region that’s been implicated in autistic people with
rare counting and calcluating abilities.
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