DARPA Investing In Electric Brain Stimulation To Train Snipers Quickly

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday February 7, 2012 @06:19AM from the heightened-reflexes-II dept.

New submitter Morganth writes "According to New Scientist, researchers at DARPA are investing efforts in transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) machines to cut the time it takes to train snipers. From the article: 'a 2-milliamp current will run through the part of the brain associated with object recognition — an important skill when visually combing a scene for assailants.' The story also gives a nice explanation on the psychology of 'flow' — the state that experts tend to enter (e.g. programmers, tennis players, pianists) when focusing on their work." We covered similar research done on mice to improve their memory in September.

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Re:Snipers? WTF? by SlowMovingTarget · 2012-02-07 08:18 · Score: 4, Informative

From TFA:

Weisend, who is working on a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency programme to accelerate learning, has been using this form of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to cut the time it takes to train snipers.
That's from page 2. Do more than skim.