Learning skills like characters on The Matrix set to become a reality, say scientists. By Ted Thornhill Updated: 18:05 GMT, 9 December 2011 Learning a martial art, how to fly a plane or how to speak a new language without even being awake is set to become a reality, say researchers.
Scientists at Boston University and ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, believe that in the future learning a new skill might involve nothing more than sitting in front of a computer screen and waiting for it to ‘upload’. BU wizards find success in unconscious neurofeedback learning, announce plans for secret lair. Meditation found to increase brain size. Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office Sara Lazar (center) talks to research assistant Michael Treadway and technologist Shruthi Chakrapami about the results of experiments showing that meditation can increase brain size.
People who meditate grow bigger brains than those who don’t. Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical structure of our brains.