A new research at the University of California, Berkeley have resulted in invention of a brain decoder device that can read the human mind and what we are thinking based on neuron activity inside the brain. This means our inner thoughts and feelings are no longer known to us alone.
Researchers invited test subjects to read a passage of text out loud and then again in their mind, monitoring brain activity each time to look for linked patterns.
This discovery could help in people who cannot speak to ascertain tyeir emotions.
It could be noted that brains are being hacked to fight mental illness, mine marketing-friendly data
Brian Pasley told New Scientist. “We're trying to decode the brain activity related to that voice to create a medical prosthesis that can allow someone who is paralysed or locked in to speak.” Pasley and his team based their work around the hypothesis that hearing words in our head causes the same kind of brain activity as hearing them spoken. The decoding machine is still at developmental stage.
Researchers invited test subjects to read a passage of text out loud and then again in their mind, monitoring brain activity each time to look for linked patterns.
This discovery could help in people who cannot speak to ascertain tyeir emotions.
It could be noted that brains are being hacked to fight mental illness, mine marketing-friendly data
Brian Pasley told New Scientist. “We're trying to decode the brain activity related to that voice to create a medical prosthesis that can allow someone who is paralysed or locked in to speak.” Pasley and his team based their work around the hypothesis that hearing words in our head causes the same kind of brain activity as hearing them spoken. The decoding machine is still at developmental stage.
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