Electrical Stimulation for Fresh Insight? If we have learned to solve problems by one method, we often have difficulty bringing new insight to similar problems. However, electrical stimulation of the...

Electrical Stimulation for Fresh Insight?

If we have learned to solve problems by one method, we often have difficulty bringing new insight to similar problems. However, electrical stimulation of the brain appears to help subjects come up with fresh insight. In a recent experiment¹
conducted at the University of Sydney in Australia, 40 participants were trained to solve problems in a certain way and then asked to solve an unfamiliar problem that required fresh insight. Half of the participants were randomly assigned to receive noninvasive electrical stimulation of the brain while the other half (control group) received sham stimulation as a placebo. The participants did not know in which group they were. In the control group, 20% of the participants successfully solved the problem while of the participants who received brain stimulation solved the problem.

¹Chi, R. and Snyder, A., ‘‘Facilitate Insight by Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation,’’
PLoS ONE, 2011; 6(2).

(a) Is this an experiment or an observational study?

Experiment

Observational study

(b) From the description, does it appear that the study is double-blind, single-blind, or not blind?

Double-blind

Single-blind

Not blind

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(d) What proportion of people who correctly solved the problem had the electrical stimulation?

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(e) Give values for , the proportion of people in the electrical stimulation group to solve the problem, and , the proportion of people in the sham simulation group to solve the problem. What is the difference in proportions ?

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(f) Does electrical stimulation of the brain appear to help insight?

Yes

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