Transcranial control of procedural memory reconsolidation for skill acquisition
AssigneeHRL Laboratories, LLC
InventorsPraveen K. Pilly, Michael D. Howard, Rajan Bhattacharyya
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Abstract
Described is a system for the therapeutic modification of human behavior and, more specifically, a system for the transcranial control of procedural memory reconsolidation for the purposes of enhanced skill acquisition. During operation the system records a practice pattern. The practice pattern is a recording of a sensed brain activity from a sensor array when a subject is performing a skill. The practice pattern is converted to brain activity voxels and stored as both an uncompressed practice pattern and a compressed practice pattern.
Claims24
A procedural memory enhancement system, the system comprising:
- one or more processors and a memory, the memory being a non-transitory computer-readable medium having executable instructions encoded thereon, such that upon execution of the instructions, the one or more processors perform operations of:
- upon initiation by a user, recording a practice pattern when a subject is performing a skill, the practice pattern being a recording of a sensed brain activity from a sensor array when the subject is performing the skill;
- converting the practice pattern to brain activity voxels and storing the brain activity voxels as both an uncompressed practice pattern and a compressed practice pattern;
- and
- transcranially applying a stimulus montage through a stimulator array to recreate at least one of the compressed practice pattern and uncompressed practice pattern, the stimulus montage being a spatiotemporal pattern of transcranial stimulation.
A computer program product for procedural memory enhancement, the computer program product comprising:
- a non-transitory computer-readable medium having executable instructions encoded thereon, such that upon execution of the instructions by one or more processors, the one or more processors perform operations of:
- upon initiation by a user, recording a practice pattern when a subject is performing a skill, the practice pattern being a recording of a sensed brain activity from a sensor array when the subject is performing the skill;
- converting the practice pattern to brain activity voxels and storing the brain activity voxels as both an uncompressed practice pattern and a compressed practice pattern;
- and
- transcranially applying a stimulus montage through a stimulator array to recreate at least one of the compressed practice pattern and uncompressed practice pattern, the stimulus montage being a spatiotemporal pattern of transcranial stimulation.
A method for procedural memory enhancement, the method comprising an act of:
- causing one or more processors to execute instructions encoded on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, such that upon execution, the one or more processors perform operations of:
- upon initiation by a user, recording a practice pattern when a subject is performing a skill, the practice pattern being a recording of a sensed brain activity from a sensor array when the subject is performing the skill;
- converting the practice pattern to brain activity voxels and storing the brain activity voxels as both an uncompressed practice pattern and a compressed practice pattern;
- and
- transcranially applying a stimulus montage through a stimulator array to recreate at least one of the compressed practice pattern and uncompressed practice pattern, the stimulus montage being a spatiotemporal pattern of transcranial stimulation.
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