Scientists are on the verge of creating a cap to stimulate the
brain. ScienceDaily (Feb. 3, 2011) — Are we on the verge of
being able to stimulate the brain to see the world anew -- an
electric thinking cap? Research by Richard Chi and Allan Snyder
from the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney
suggests that this could be the case. They found that
participants who received electrical stimulation of the anterior
temporal lobes were three times as likely to reach the fresh
insight necessary to solve a difficult, unfamiliar problem than
those in the control group. The study published on February 2 in
the open-access journal PLoS ONE.