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Yeah, whats next. Imagining how your weight would change on a diet to measure that diets effectiveness?
by kapp_in_life 5y ago
Yeah, whats next. Imagining how your weight would change on a diet to measure that diets effectiveness?
- AussieWog93 5y agoIn all seriousness, the majority of Brain-Computer Interface trials involve asking subjects (usually able-bodied in the initial stages) to imagine moving their limbs.
- robbedpeter 5y agoMouth noises or button mashing are an insufficient proxy for ground truth
- jdavis703 5y agoThis seems like a reasonable first step before creating prototypes and more advanced studies. What am I missing?
- AussieWog93 5y agoThe fact that we're still doing it 30 years later.
- shkkmo 5y agoThere is a neuroscientific basis for that. We have well established research showing how imagining movements activates (almost) the same parts of the brain as making those movements. This is entirely different from asking people to imagine how they would react to a scenario. There is a pretty wide body of research documenting how poorly we tend to be at estimating such reactions.
- AussieWog93 5y ago>We have well established research showing how imagining movements activates (almost) the same parts of the brain as making those movements. In some people, some of the time, with no way of knowing beforehand if it's the system failing or the patient.