Home > NEURObotics - the future of thinking? > Think you're smart? > Manufacturing creativity > Shocking news At the Centre for the Mind in Australia, Allan Snyder is working on a machine that could send your grey matter into overdrive. Some people show amazing mental skills despite having a serious brain impairment - they have 'savant syndrome'. One such extraordinary ability is counting a huge number of objects in a split-second. Snyder says he can give ordinary people a taste of savant abilities by zapping their brain with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Thinking outside the box Page 2 of 8 Zapping the brain back to: Think you're smart?   Allan Snyder, from the Centre for the Mind, oversees a volunteer in one of his experiments. Centre for the Mind

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