'Miracle' hat enhances intelligence

Experiments on creative hats may be able to discover a scientist hiding in each of us.

Carrying a device at the top of the device to create tiny electrodes running through the brain can help some people quickly solve math puzzles that they can't normally do, Australian scientists said.

Professor Allan Snyder and Dr. Richard Chi, of the University of Sydney's Intelligence Research Center, described experiments conducted on 22 volunteers to see the work of 'creative hats' invented by the two men. How to use when they solve '9-point problem'.

'9-point problem' is a familiar puzzle: Use a 9-point connecting pen on a square with 4 straight lines without lifting the pen off the paper. It requires thinking ' outside the square ', the authors explain in Neuroscience Letters.

At first glance, seeing the problem is difficult to solve. Mr. Snyder said: 'If the number of winners is 5%, it is too good. Almost all published works show no one has solved this simple puzzle problem '.

Volunteers in their study were randomly divided into 2 groups, all of which were on top of the creative hat (but not turned on) and had to solve this problem in 9 minutes, divided into 3 phases. paragraph, every 3 minutes.

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In one group of currents is turned on for 3 minutes at the second stage (ie, focusing on the first 3 minutes) and the other group does not turn on as a control. Of course no one knows if the helmet has turned on or not, and when to turn on the power. The result is as expected, no one can solve the problem in the first 3 minutes. Wearing a hat without turning on the power, no one could solve it, even after 9 minutes.

But in the group of caps that were turned on for 3 minutes in stage 2, 5 out of 11 people (45% respectively) successfully solved the problem while the caps were on or immediately after.

Where did the scientist hide?

Snyder spent many years studying 'the hidden scientist' phenomenon - that is, in people whose brains have abnormalities or abnormalities that show some extraordinary talents such as a landscape view. The street from the plane only once returned home, drawing every detail of that city, or remembering a huge number of numbers (phone numbers, dates in world history) or mental math. Amazingly fast speed.

He believes that experimenting with a creative hat can reveal the 'scientist' hiding within all of us but normally suppressed.

"Although it has long been recognized that people with trauma remain on their heads, especially in the left temporal lobe, they later exhibit intelligence skills as a scientist."

"The sharp impact on the front left lobe of the brain somehow reduces the function of the left brain and allows us to receive the knowledge that belongs to the 'management' of the right brain but never reveals it. " Snyder added.

Micro current

The device that volunteers use (all of these are right-handed) only gets very weak current, about 1.5 milliamperes, passes through the brain for 10 minutes, the left side of the brain is electronegative and the brain must be positive.

"The power used from a battery for flash lights has a very low voltage ," he said, so even when wearing a helmet and turning on the power, there is almost nothing to feel, if any, just a little sad sadness on the scalp, but also difficult to recognize - according to volunteers.

Mr. Snyder added: "Needless to say how cautious we are about the safety of the test. I also don't want volunteers to use this hat constantly."

'Do I think this creative hat will be a technology of the future? I think that is absolutely a practical possibility, ' said Professor Snyder.