Praveen Pilly (L) and Nicholas Ketz (R), HRL Laboratories (IMAGE)

HRL Laboratories

Praveen Pilly (L) and Nicholas Ketz (R), HRL Laboratories

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HRL Laboratories publish the first study using closed-loop slow-wave transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) of the brain during sleep to increase human subjects' ability to generalize experience in a target detection task, improving overnight performance change for novel situations by about 48%. Developed for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), the technique is for accelerating learning, memory, and skill acquisition.

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