
<html><head></head><body><div>Rather cool: the human version of the FOXP2 gene makes mice learn stimulus-response associations faster, especially when declarative and procedural memory need to work together:</div><div>http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/genetics/if-you-give-a-mouse-a-human-speech-gene-it-learns-faster-17210075?src=spr_TWITTER&spr_id=1457_88800754</div><div><br></div><div>Original paper:</div>http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/09/11/1414542111<div><br></div><div>Apropos enhancement, check out the series on enhancing virtues by the IEET guys. Lots of good references there.</div><div>http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/cyborgbuddha<br><div><br><br>Anders Sandberg,

Future of Humanity Institute

Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</div></div></body></html>