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Actually you can, in limited cases. If you have prior knowledge of the person's brain activity when looking at an image, it's possible to predict (reconstruct
by joshvm 8y ago
Actually you can, in limited cases.
If you have prior knowledge of the person's brain activity when looking at an image, it's possible to predict (reconstruct an image of) what they're looking at.
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/figures?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006633 https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/figures?id=10...
- Engineering-MD 8y agoThat is not reading thoughts. That is via the occipital Cortex which has a highly structured representation of what is projected on to the retina. This is much easier as the organisation of the data is maintained relative to the retina, just regrouped according to visual field rather than eye.
- Teever 8y agoIf we're reading data from the brain isn't that by definition reading thoughts, regardless of where in the brain they originate from?
- joshvm 8y agoPart of the study involved decoding images from memory/recall. I did say _limited_. It depends how tightly you want to define "thought", but being able to think of an object and having a computer display a reasonable representation of it seems like a good start.