Tuesday, April 12, 2011
New Scientist TV: How a magnet can turn off speech
New Scientist TV: How a magnet can turn off speech: Hold an electromagnet close to your skull and you can enhance or suppress the activity of neurons just beneath it, thanks to a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). In this video, our brave editor Roger Highfield was zapped by Vincent Walsh from the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL to show how it can turn off speech.
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