Psychic 'mind-reading' computer will show your thoughts on screen
November 1st 2009 20:46
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A mind reading machine that can peer into someone's brain and reproduce images of what they are seeing or remembering has been developed by scientists.
While the idea of a telepathy machine might sound like something from a science fiction movie, the scientists say it could one day be used to study people's dreams - and even help solve crimes.
In a pioneering experiment, an American team scanned the head of someone watching a video and then recreated the moving image they were watching from their brain activity
Although the results were crude, the technique was able to reproduce the rough shape of a man in a white shirt and the image of a city skyline.
Prof Jack Gallant, who carried out the experiment at the University of California, Berkeley, said: 'At the moment when you see something and want to describe it to someone you have to use words or draw it and it doesn't work very well.
'You could use this technology to transmit the image to someone. It might be useful for artists or to allow you to recover an eyewitnesses memory of a crime.'
The experiment is the latest in a series of studies designed to show how brain scans can reveal our innermost thoughts
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1224489/Psychic-plug-brain-thoughts-screen-developed.html#ixzz0VdsAZ0Qp
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