Meetup : Austin, TX TCDS Experiment

1 Post author: Vaniver 15 February 2012 05:28PM

Discussion article for the meetup : Austin, TX TCDS Experiment

WHEN: 18 February 2012 01:30:00PM (-0600)

WHERE: 21st & Speedway, Austin TX

The Austin, TX meetup is in a new location for just this week; we'll be meeting in CBA 4.342 on Saturday the 18th at 1:30 PM. We're going to be trying out transcranial direct current stimulation. Please bring a laptop (or some device that can implement dual n-back) and headphones; I'll have the electrodes, batteries, and other assorted materials. If you could do a session or two of dual n-back before showing up, that'd be great, but isn't necessary.

(Parking: You can either park wherever you parked for Caffe Medici and walk ~three blocks to the east, or you can part in the Brazos street garage (at Brazos and MLK) and walk west then north to CBA.)

Discussion article for the meetup : Austin, TX TCDS Experiment

Comments (3)

Comment author: Giles 23 February 2012 12:56:36AM 1 point [-]

You've attracted the attention of the rest of LW. Did this experiment go ahead? What were the results?

Comment author: Vaniver 12 March 2012 08:01:39PM 5 points [-]

Preliminary results were here. Essentially, it was a tiny, poorly equipped experiment, and our results showed that the current slightly impeded our ability / desire to to DNB. It seems plausible to me that we may have misread the papers we were working off of, because they just describe anodes and cathodes (and it's ambiguous whether that's the battery's anode or your head's anode).

My takeaway was that you can alter your mental experience with TCDS, but that doing it in a positive way is a nontrivial undertaking. I am slowly putting together better equipment to do more rigorous testing, and will describe my results once that happens.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 18 January 2013 03:11:27AM *  1 point [-]

Any more updates now that it's 2013?