2/10/2011 PERMALINK
Researchers create a 'thinking cap' that can safely up-mod your creativity by about 300%. Professor Allan Snyder and Richard Chi from Sydney University's Centre of the Mind have engineered a cap that can make you three times as likely to be able to solve a complex problem. It was previously know that brain trauma victims sometimes experience a suppression of the left temporal lobe, which has the effect of removing the governing function that part of your brain normally exercises over the right or creative side of your brain. The scientists found that they were able to duplicate this rare effect sometimes induced by brain trauma, by creating a cap that creates 10-15 minutes of electrical pulses in your brain. These pulses safely and temporarily reduce the activity in your left temporal lobe. Freeing up the creative side of your brain to function at several times your normal levels of creativity. The effect last for about one hour. Then your temporal lobe begins restricting your right brain's creative function as usual, and your level of creative declines back to your norm.