Computers reconstruct words from brain imaging!

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Computers reconstruct words from brain imaging!

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:04 am

Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words.

The technique reported in PLoS Biology relies on gathering electrical signals directly from patients' brains.

Based on signals from listening patients, a computer model was used to reconstruct the sounds of words that patients were thinking of.

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One application that is not mentioned here is the possibility of "artificial telepathy" - implants in two people's brains that can communicate via mobile phone networks via an interpretive computer - imagine the uses - your wife will never worry about where you are again! Oh... :shock:
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Re: Computers reconstruct words from brain imaging!

Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:38 am

Heard this on the Today programme. Obviously the word reconstructions are pretty crude but still a bit creepy. At the moment it reconstructs words that you've just heard, rather than words you may spontaneously think about it. I wondered about the iTelepathy thing (sure Apple are working on a way to monetise people's brains) - the tricky bit would be to get the system to pick up the thoughts you wanted it to and not the thoughtsd you didn't...
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Re: Computers reconstruct words from brain imaging!

Post by JimC » Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:41 am

iTelepathy will supplant tedious typing to post on this forum....

It will need a censor that removes "Seth" from any of my posts...
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Re: Computers reconstruct words from brain imaging!

Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:45 am

Wire it up wrong and it will just pick up things from your brain stem...

I'm Hungry
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I'm hungry
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Re: Computers reconstruct words from brain imaging!

Post by JimC » Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:47 am

Clinton Huxley wrote:Wire it up wrong and it will just pick up things from your brain stem...

I'm Hungry
I'm Thirsty
I need wee
Phwoar!
I'm hungry
All good, straightforward Ratzian posts, given a little linguistic tizzying..
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Re: Computers reconstruct words from brain imaging!

Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:50 am

JimC wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:Wire it up wrong and it will just pick up things from your brain stem...

I'm Hungry
I'm Thirsty
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Phwoar!
I'm hungry
All good, straightforward Ratzian posts, given a little linguistic tizzying..
Very true....

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Re: Computers reconstruct words from brain imaging!

Post by JimC » Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:53 am

I'm Hungary...
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Re: Computers reconstruct words from brain imaging!

Post by Clinton Huxley » Wed Feb 01, 2012 8:55 am

Phwoar!
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Re: Computers reconstruct words from brain imaging!

Post by MrJonno » Wed Feb 01, 2012 9:47 am

Suspicious of this, would like to see repeated by different teams and preferably different patients
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Post by MiM » Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:39 am

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Re: Computers reconstruct words from brain imaging!

Post by Animavore » Wed Feb 01, 2012 11:44 am

Heard about this about 3 years ago when they were only beginning to run tests on Horizon or something. Interesting stuff. But makes psychics redundant.
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Mind Reading Technology in the Works

Post by Coito ergo sum » Wed Feb 01, 2012 2:21 pm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/scie ... ality.html
Mind-reading device could become reality
A device which reads the thoughts of brain-damaged patients could become a reality, scientists claimed, after proving they could tell what someone was hearing just by decoding their brain waves.
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Re: Computers reconstruct words from brain imaging!

Post by Ronja » Sat Feb 04, 2012 8:22 pm

Both fascinating and creepy...
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