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Savant for a Day
Topic: Health and Wellness 12:49 am EDT, Jun 21, 2003

] As remarkable as the cat-drawing lesson was, it was just
] a hint of Snyder's work and its implications for the
] study of cognition. He has used TMS dozens of times on
] university students, measuring its effect on their
] ability to draw, to proofread and to perform difficult
] mathematical functions like identifying prime numbers by
] sight. Hooked up to the machine, 40 percent of test
] subjects exhibited extraordinary, and newfound, mental
] skills. That Snyder was able to induce these remarkable
] feats in a controlled, repeatable experiment is more than
] just a great party trick; it's a breakthrough that may
] lead to a revolution in the way we understand the limits
] of our own intelligence -- and the functioning of the
] human brain in general.

and to think I've been taking drugs to actually try and STOP this kind of behavior.

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