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Scientists have used brain scanners to detect and reconstruct the faces that people are thinking of, a scientific achievement that could someday lead to a dream-recorder. (Alan Cowen)

 

Think mind reading is science fiction?

 

Think again.

 

Scientists have used brain scanners to detect and reconstruct the faces that people are thinking of, according to a a study accepted for publication this month in the journal NeuroImage.

 

In the study, scientists hooked participants up to an fMRI brain scanner ? which determines activity in different parts of the brain by measuring blood flow ? and showed them images of faces. Then, using only the brain scans, the scientists were able to create images of the faces the people were looking at.

 

?It is mind reading,? said Alan S. Cowen, a graduate student at the University of California Berkeley who co-authored the study with professor Marvin M. Chun from Yale and Brice A. Kuhl from New York University.

 

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http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/03/28/know-what-youre-thinking-scientists-find-way-to-read-minds/

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"scientists were able to create images of the faces the people were looking at"

This is not mind reading - just interception of real time visual data.

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This is sort of old news. Check this out - http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=3,951,134.PN.&OS=PN/3,951,134&RS=PN/3,951,134

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[FloatingFatMan]

IIRC, this was reported on in the Science section a year or two ago, and it's absolutely NOT mind reading, at all.

 

In that, they showed the subjects 300 images and recorded their brainwaves, each brainwave pattern was connected to that image. They then showed them another image and used the previously recorded patterns to build a composite image of what they were seeing.

 

It's not mind reading, it's pattern matching brainwave patters to build a composite image.

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"scientists were able to create images of the faces the people were looking at"

This is not mind reading - just interception of real time visual data.

 

How do you think they intercepted the data smartypants?