Development of Cognitive enhancement methods

Abstract

Cognition ability represents a group of cognitive processes, which involves a lot of human’s basic cognitive functions, including executive attention, episodic memory, prospective memory, uncertainty monitoring and metacognition, and self-control and delay of gratification, playing an essential role in human’s fundamental life. Mainstream cognition enhancing technologies are task based method, drug based method and brain computer interface based method, whose general principles are directly training relative functions, rebuilding nerve interactions in cell or molecular level and giving signals stimulating neurons respectively. In This essay, after introducing these three cognitive enhancement methods and analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of each of them, some advises and expectations are given.