Method and apparatus for neuroenhancement to facilitate learning and performance
AssigneeNeuroenhancement Lab, LLC
InventorAlexander Poltorak
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Abstract
A method of facilitating a skill learning process or improving performance of a task, comprising: determining a brainwave pattern reflecting neuronal activity of a skilled subject while engaged in a respective skill or task; processing the determined brainwave pattern with at least one automated processor; and subjecting a subject training in the respective skill or task to brain entrainment by a stimulus selected from the group consisting of one or more of a sensory excitation, a peripheral excitation, a transcranial excitation, and a deep brain stimulation, dependent on the processed temporal pattern extracted from brainwaves reflecting neuronal activity of the skilled subject.
Claims20
A system for facilitating learning of a motor skill, comprising:
- a brainwave detector, configured to capture brainwaves of a user;
- a neural stimulator, configured to stimulate a nervous system of the user with a modulated pattern, and to entrain the brainwaves of the user with the modulated pattern;
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- at least one automated processor, configured to:
- determine a waveform of captured brainwaves over time from the user;
- control the neural stimulator to induce a brain state corresponding to a readiness for training in the motor task, said readiness for training in the motor task being distinct from a readiness for performing the motor task, the brain state corresponding to a readiness for training in the motor task being determined based on brainwave patterns of a subject skilled in the motor skill;
- process the determined waveform to detect the brain state corresponding to the readiness for training in the motor task;
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- after detection of the brain state corresponding to the readiness for training in the motor task, commence training of the user in the motor skill.
A method for facilitating learning of a motor skill, comprising:
- capturing brainwaves of a user with a brainwave detector;
- stimulating a nervous system of the user with a modulated pattern, and entraining the brainwaves of the user with the modulated pattern, using a neural stimulator;
- determining a waveform of captured brainwaves over time from the user;
- controlling the neural stimulator, with at least one automated processor, to induce a brain state corresponding to a readiness for training in the motor task, said readiness for training in the motor task being distinct from a readiness for performing the motor task, the brain state corresponding to a readiness for training in the motor task being determined based on brainwave patterns of a subject skilled in the motor skill;
- processing the determined waveform, with the at least one automated processor, to detect the brain state corresponding to the readiness for training in the motor task;
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- after detection of the brain state corresponding to the readiness for training in the motor task, commencing training of the user in the motor skill.
A computer readable medium storing non-transitory instructions for controlling at least one automated processor to facilitating learning of a motor skill, comprising instructions for performing a method comprising:
- capturing brainwaves of a user with a brainwave detector;
- stimulating a nervous system of the user with a modulated pattern, and entraining the brainwaves of the user with the modulated pattern, using a neural stimulator;
- determining a waveform of captured brainwaves over time from the user, and processing the determined waveform, to detect the brain state corresponding to the readiness for training in the motor task;
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- controlling the neural stimulator, to induce a brain state corresponding to a readiness for training in the motor task, said readiness for training in the motor task being distinct from a readiness for performing the motor task, the brain state corresponding to a readiness for training in the motor task being determined based on brainwave patterns of a subject skilled in the motor skill.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.