BU wizards find success in unconscious neurofeedback learning, announce plans for secret lair

Possible learn French this week, even supposing you are not aware that it’s happening. Neuroscientists at Boston University have discovered that patients can quickly learn new skills while having their brain patterns modified via decoded functional magnetic resonance imaging. The gang found that pictures gradually increase inside a person’s brain, appearing first as lines, edges, shapes, colors and motion in early visual areas with the brain then filling in greater details as had to complete the item. From there, a correlation was confirmed between increased visual learning and fMRI neurofeedback, repetitions of the activation pattern resulting in long-lasting performance improvement. Interestingly, the approach worked even if test subjects weren’t aware about what they were learning… that’s why that sweater you unconsciously knitted last night should fit Johnny Boy like a glove.