Alan Schneider in Sydney has found that suppressing left-frontal-cortex activity and enhancing right-frontal-cortex activity can facilitate problem-solving, including mathematical problem-solving, suggesting that the right hemisphere has superior capabilities for complex reasoning that are normally suppressed by left-hemisphere dominance
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“alan schneider in sydney has experimented on this uh can be facilitated by suppressing the left frontal cortex and enhancing the right frontal cortex so that complex problems including mathematical problems can be more easily solved”
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