strange animals traveling in twos and threes » neuroscience http://www.swordbilled.com/words news. culture. writing. the end of humanity as we know it. etc. Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:46:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc I can see your brain http://www.swordbilled.com/words/2009/06/04/i-can-see-your-brain/ http://www.swordbilled.com/words/2009/06/04/i-can-see-your-brain/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:12:13 +0000 Ben http://www.swordbilled.com/words/?p=1362 Related posts:
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Of course, movies have known for years that this was possible–it’s just taken reality a while to catch up.  Yes, science can see images in your brain, although for now it’s seemingly mostly proof-of-concept, and fairly limited.  (No full color perfect simulacra of your dreams, yet.)

“Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while they sleep.”

(Via Pinktentacle via Monocrom; also, the complete journal article is available online in PDF format: Neuron: “Visual Image Reconstruction from Human Brain Activity using a Combination of Multiscale Local Image Decoders” by Miyawaki et al. [11 Dec 2008])

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