I find this research quite hard to swallow.<p>It&#x27;s an extraordinary claim that feeding some electromagnetic representation of the thought patterns of one person into a completely different (and perhaps differently wired) brain that isn&#x27;t necessarily designed to interpret such electromagnetic signals, magically causes the second person to learn a task faster.<p>Given the poor repeatability of medical research and the subjectivity of &quot;improvement&quot; I find it just as likely that i) this is a statistical anomaly or ii) feeding random noise into a person&#x27;s brain as a control causes them to perform more poorly than normal, or iii) stimulating a brain in <i>any</i> way causes an increase in &quot;performance&quot;, or iv) something we didn&#x27;t think of.<p>Extraordinary claims like this require extraordinary evidence. Of course if they were developing this for the military then maybe the standard is just not the same.