The Military Discovered A Way To Boost Soldiers' Memories, And We Tried It | Future You | NPR

[@demetriusmiddleton1246]

To really be believable, it seems to me that there would need to be a third and fourth day without stimulation to see if the memory recall from the previous day goes back to Baseline levels without stimulation. Or something like that. Because I'm thinking it could be possible that simply even without stimulation on the second day the performance would have improved.

[@hanoj10]

There's some info she left out that is important to understand. When they they conduct these studies they do what is called "counterbalancing". Essentially half the participants will do the task with stimulation and second time without and the other half will do no stimulation and second time stimulation. This reduces any order effects that may result from getting better at the task. It's common when the design is within subjects (comparing one person against themselves).

[@demetriusmiddleton1246]

@@hanoj10 very useful information. Thank you for that! Given numerous studies that ive come across where the methods were very suspect, I'm skeptical when the techniques aren't explicitly stated.

[@ivand3666]

this how manny i loose brain cells using that program

[@petitio_principii]

They've also possibly been doing versions of this kind of thing in rats so it would be not absurd to generalize to humans, more of a matter of improving the callibration. Besides, it's not like all the subjects just go through what she went, they probably have double-blind setups and whatnot. But the encoded memory shouldn't be really that much more stickier than memory that gets solidified over more sessions of natural sleep, it should only make it faster. So, say, if you don't play chess, you practice for a while, you'll gradually improve, but once you take a break, your performance you'll decline, even if you're still somewhat better than when you just knew the basic rules. It should happen pretty much the same way, except that the chess improvement at the beginning would be steeper.

[@stefannikola]

Hmmm. She didn't remember how to get out of the building.

[@CrankyPantss]

Isn't it more likely that she got better because it was her third time playing the game so she had already practiced it twice and therefore was more used to what she was doing?

[@EricJohnsonGuru]

My thoughts as well

[@geegnomes]

This video is a laymen's demonstration of concept. If the original study has any merit, the control groups would be different people from the experimental groups (or at least have some people have their stimulation on day 1). It would also be performed blind, so the subject would wear a cap regardless and not know if their brains were stimulated or when. It doesn't matter what her results are, because it doesn't follow proper protocol. Even if it did, the sample size is 1. I agree with the other commenter who wished she linked to the articles. As is, it does more to harm the study's credibility than to popularize it. This could be a good video series with some more education about how research is actually conducted, and a few disclaimers about the inherent problems of trying out studies for yourself.

[@cgpcgp3239]

Andrew Crawford i wish video said how much subjects memory improved by. 1%? 20%? 50%? And what % of subjects memories were improved. It could work but significance could be so small it's practically useless. Or could be greatest memory aide since first student realized you could write answer to test questions on palm of hand using new fangled invention - the ball point pen.

[@epilepsy-warrior]

Yes, and people can have siezures in there sleep ! And can remember the last time I saw a doctor they told me taking meds won't stop it indefinitely and that's a journey accepting it . ! Doesn't make me a bad person as I learn to !

[@maiyenish8552]

The current implication of this video? Get your required amount of sleep every night!

[@IcemanJuice]

It’s an experiment. I saw the same experiment without the “brain memory boosting signals” years ago. It ran the same exact test. naturally your brain will process what you experienced over the day and you will perform better. An example is if you can’t beat level on a game, going to bed and then attempting the game the following day you may beat the level much faster than before because of what your brain did during sleep.

[@agni772]

More important is the opposite tech to decrease memory such as sleep deprivation after traumatic events to reduce PTSD.

[@skybirdnomad]

actually dreaming is therapy. when people dream about a bad experience repeatedly over time, they start to resolve it and heal from it. PTSD is difficuly cuz, unlike during normal dreams, your stress gets activated causing a nightmare....BUT, certain blood pressure medications can sometimes prevent stress activation. and sometimes this can help PTSD patients return to normal sleeping and start the healing process source: why we sleep by mathew walker

[@maljamin]

Why would you do the memory boost on the second night? Isn't the second day of the activity already going to boost memory over the first day?

[@TalladegaTom]

I wonder what Douglas Quaid thinks about this?

[@djameldjamel7576]

Hello I love the experiments you live ,I would like to do that with you Especially tdcs thank you

[@BCIQW]

Unfortunately, this test doesn't prove much, they need a control group to show that the improvement wasn't just from repetition and being more practiced at the task.

[@petitio_principii]

They probably have that. The improvement is nevertheless "just from repetition and practice" anyway, it would just get less "eroded" and thus theoretically need less practice. But I suspect it may be less refined than a superficially seemingly similar level of ease built slowly/naturally and with the acceleration. As they've mentioned, the brain is kind of "filtering" good and bad "memories" for the ability every time we sleep.

[@camra.]

Sure this will be used positively (sarcastic tone)

[@cicadasmasher8082]

Plot twist: It's a total trojan horse. Wear it and they can conversely, worsen your recall; or alternatively, implant false memories basically making you a programmable robot they can update every night if you're dumb enough to fall for this sham of a sales pitch and slap it on your head every night. Edit: Holy Crap! Kept watching and found out my joke was actually factual. But no worries, you can trust them. They can't do it to you now(yeah...right)so go ahead and wear it. However, if you think about how advanced technology is, they've probably been programming us remotely for years. Time to make a tin foil hat folks.

[@driven9863]

Give him Meth

[@GeraltBosMang]

Or implant memories.

[@hayden1351]

.... Polygon sent me here. Please bestow science words upon me

[@Milanvaneijk]

The host is really authentic, I love it, subscribed.

[@sullenfps]

This study is flawed in so many ways... Of course you will improve the 2nd or 3rd time. You know what to expect now... This video was a waste of 10 mins.

[@IcemanJuice]

Its also old fashion, I saw the same experiment without the “brain memory boosting signals”, and naturally your brain will process what you experienced over the day and you will perform better. An example is if you can’t beat level on a game, going to bed and then attempting the game the following day you may beat the level much faster than before because of what your brain did during sleep.

[@ashleyschmidt]

Black Mirror is becoming more and more real 😳

[@elizabethchristmas3592]

Wonder if this a treatment for Alzheimer’s

[@robertholland4367]

Defund NPR

[@JundaOng]

Another bad experiment your teacher will not be proud of.

[@greatpretender83]

Could you at least put a semi ok gamer????

[@karlamitchell81]

Hmmmm seems like the show on Amazon Prime