How can TMS help scientists to further understand the nature of human cognition and intelligence?
In 2006, Professor Snyder of the Australian National University in Canberra published research in the journal Perception entitled Savant-like numerosity skills revealed in normal people by magnetic pulses.[15] The paper begins by explaining that some autistics have mathematical abilities which far surpass those of most people. By stimulating the left anterior temporal lobe, the researchers were able to temporarily induce some surprising abilities in people who were not autistic. These test subjects were far more likely than their non-stimulated counterparts to be able determine the number of dots flashed on a computer screen. Such studies will allow scientists to understand not only the autistic brain but the non-autistic brain as well. It has also been shown (as mentioned in New Scientist) in May of 2007 by Fortunato Battaglia at the City University of New York that stimulating the brains of mice can cause neuron growth, a process referred to as neurogenesis. It is possible that this
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