Boosting the brain can lead to cognitive overload
Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 11:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Electrical stimulation of the brain's cells while solving challenging tasks can lead to mental overload. The researchers divided the task they gave to study participants into three levels -- simple, medium and difficult. They found no effect of stimulation when participants performed the simple and medium tasks, yet they found a large negative effect on the most difficult tasks.