Electricity can help learn math better

If you often get confused when recalculating your restaurant bill after every meal, the electrical impulses can become your savior.

Neuroscientists from Oxford University in England recruit a number of volunteers to study the impact of electrical impulses on computational capacity. They asked volunteers to perform many calculations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division before joining a test.

About 20% of the world's population is unable to perform calculations normally. (Photo: Telegraph)

In the experiment, the team attached electrodes to the top of the volunteer group to transmit light and ultra-fast pulses for 5 days.

"The intensity of the current that we transmit into the brains of the volunteers is very low so it does not cause any pain. They even asked us if we have transmitted electrical impulses, because they did not feel anything , " proceeded. Dr. Roi Cohen Kadosh, the leader of the research team.

Then the group of volunteers performed the calculations. The results showed that the level of accuracy in the mathematical process of the volunteer group increased by 28%. This situation existed until 6 months after the test ended, Telegraph reported.

"We believe that brain stimulation by light electrical impulses is one of the ways to help people who are unable to calculate quickly and accurately. Electric pulses increase the efficiency in the information processing process of cells. nervous, "the team concluded.

Kadosh hopes that people will use electrical impulse stimulation techniques in hospitals, classrooms, and even private homes to help people with certain neurological symptoms - such as slow reading and poor calculations.

Scientists say that about 20% of the world's population are unable to perform maths normally and 20% have dyslexia.