The Effect of Brain Stimulation on Memory

Bob Greene: I thought you were going to be doing a completely different study that just came out. It was done on epilepsy patients who have electrodes implanted in their brain. They stimulated essentially synchronized these two specific locations in the brain. And they did the stimulation before they went to sleep, or it might have been during while they were sleeping. The subjects who had the stimulation did better on the task than next day.