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- DanielShinall, on 12/11/2008, -6/+767Does the brain store them as .jpegs? That would be convenient.
- ridd1e, on 12/11/2008, -5/+425That’s it. Although the system is only able to reproduce b&w images (in ***** quality), that’s the first step to reading people’s minds.
Let me repeat that sentence in caps with obligatory periods after each word.
READING. PEOPLE’S. MINDS. - oneSaint, on 12/11/2008, -9/+350Say goodbye to Photoshop.
- CoreyTamas, on 12/11/2008, -3/+276If my girlfriend ever uses that technology on me, I'm as a good as dumped.
- robot1122, on 12/11/2008, -2/+275The brain would so use .pngs...
- 0x0000ff, on 12/11/2008, -5/+215I dugg you up because I have absolutely no idea WTF you're trying to say
- NavARXIDA, on 12/11/2008, -5/+189Finally i can document and record my dreams !
- wannapiece, on 12/11/2008, -1/+171I would definitely like to have hard copies of my dreams
- idesign562, on 12/11/2008, -12/+177Fringe! :)
- CoreyTamas, on 12/11/2008, -4/+167Oh, she won't. She's just an imaginary girlfriend. Er. I mean. She lives out of town. I mean out of the country. Aw, crap.
GO OBAMA! WOOO! - inactive, on 12/11/2008, -6/+160no ***** way!
- purseonality, on 12/11/2008, -14/+147OMG that is both awesome and terrifying. It clearly spells out N E U R O N
Oh, Crap...I just thought of something:
Serial Killer: B L O O D
Teacher: B R A T S
Cookie Monster: C O O K I E
Me: G U C C I
George W. Bush: C O O K I E - casbar, on 12/11/2008, -9/+129Woh! I don't believe it yet but we'll see.
- linagee, on 12/11/2008, -2/+119That's been brainshopped! The pixels are all smart.
- Snap65, on 12/11/2008, -2/+116animated gifs?
- inactive, on 12/11/2008, -0/+110Actually, my memory itself is pretty loss-y... That might explain a few things.
- diomedes31, on 12/11/2008, -1/+104And upload them to...dreamtube.com...*****, somebody's already registered it.
- Ne007, on 12/11/2008, -5/+103One day it will be illegal to even think certain thoughts.
- Chris_F, on 12/12/2008, -0/+98Now the MPAA isn't going to let anyone into movie theaters without first having their eyes seared with a red hot glowing cattle prod out of the fear we are going to pirate their movies by extracting the images out of our brains. Nothing is safe.
- ridd1e, on 12/11/2008, -2/+99Mirror: http://i37.tinypic.com/2pt33o1.png
- articflames, on 12/11/2008, -2/+90or if she ever finds your digg account and looks at the this comment <_<
- DucoNihilum, on 12/11/2008, -1/+87Guys, you have it all wrong. The brain stores everything in RAW.
- speedygonzalez, on 12/11/2008, -4/+89Science will never be able to convince me that I'll ever know what woman are thinking.
- inactive, on 12/12/2008, -3/+79say goodbye to privacy.
- thePTS, on 12/11/2008, -3/+73Not yet. Note that the article does not mention a test where the subject thinks of a certain letter, then being able to read it. The machine only reads the image, "pixel by pixel", while it was being viewed.
This is with 99% probability just an EEG of the signals going to the corresponding image receptors in the visual cortex. It's just a weak, very weak electric signal going from a "grid" behind your eyes to the back of your head, that they've remapped to represent that "grid" again.
This program doesn't even take into consideration any of the very advanced image processing mechanisms our brains have, which is why for instance optical illusions "work". Nor does it have anything to do with mental imagery, which is an even later stage in the brain. The researcher makes a pretty bold assumption (to put it mildly) that the nerves we see with, are the same we use for mental imagery.
Yes, we will (in my opinion) eventually be able to "read" a persons mind, but since no brain is alike, it will require a lot of calibration. And I mean a lot.. probably months per person. - inactive, on 12/11/2008, -1/+66Funny, all the extracted images look just like an account exceeding its CPU quota.
- Snap65, on 12/11/2008, -2/+56I'd like to watch my dreams in HD.
- nitsua11513, on 12/11/2008, -3/+55If you want to read the full article, links to it are provided on the front page of Neuron's website, or use this direct link http://tinyurl.com/5l8dt3
- LoveAndSeagulls, on 12/12/2008, -1/+49thoughtcrime
- OneRingShort, on 12/12/2008, -0/+48Or in some cases: youporn.com
- staffa, on 12/11/2008, -4/+47and not in the, "Wow, I can't believe you just did that, awesome!" sense
But in the, "Until I see 10 other reports of people duplicating your experiment, I am going to assume based on my understanding of how the brain works, the sensitivity of an MRI, that you are utterly full of *****" sense
Though if true, it would be an insane break through. Keep in mind, they are not saying, that this layout of brain activity means you are thinking of the letter A. They are saying that this layout of brain activity means that you are picturing something that looks remarkable like a picture of an A. - uptwolait, on 12/11/2008, -4/+45Next big story...Scientists extract images directly from crashed server.
- Diggerr, on 12/11/2008, -1/+41Well if she already lives in your head, she won't need this technology to read it, will she?
- linagee, on 12/11/2008, -3/+39Stop undressing me with your brain!
- Incomp3tnt, on 12/11/2008, -1/+33Get out of my head Charles!
- DamnRandall, on 12/11/2008, -9/+41That's awesome.
- ja9elizabeth, on 12/11/2008, -5/+36Anything from a site called "pinktentacle" has GOT to be true. I'm a believer.
- LoneWolf01, on 12/11/2008, -2/+32It'd use .bmps, there's enough space.
- DeskFlyer, on 12/11/2008, -1/+31I wish I could go fishing and catch a fish stick; that would be convenient.
- inactive, on 12/11/2008, -0/+29shut up Walter! ps, gimmie back my chewing gum.
- dicketj8050, on 12/12/2008, -2/+29it's proprietary, Steve Jobs is going to invest in this and we'll all have to use iPhoto to use our own minds...
- ridd1e, on 12/11/2008, -1/+28(Text version if you have trouble reading white on black)
Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while they sleep.
The scientists were able to reconstruct various images viewed by a person by analyzing changes in their cerebral blood flow. Using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine, the researchers first mapped the blood flow changes that occurred in the cerebral visual cortex as subjects viewed various images held in front of their eyes. Subjects were shown 400 random 10 x 10 pixel black-and-white images for a period of 12 seconds each. While the fMRI machine monitored the changes in brain activity, a computer crunched the data and learned to associate the various changes in brain activity with the different image designs.
Then, when the test subjects were shown a completely new set of images, such as the letters N-E-U-R-O-N, the system was able to reconstruct and display what the test subjects were viewing based solely on their brain activity.
For now, the system is only able to reproduce simple black-and-white images. But Dr. Kang Cheng, a researcher from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, suggests that improving the measurement accuracy will make it possible to reproduce images in color.
“These results are a breakthrough in terms of understanding brain activity,” says Dr. Cheng. “In as little as 10 years, advances in this field of research may make it possible to read a person’s thoughts with some degree of accuracy.”
The researchers suggest a future version of this technology could be applied in the fields of art and design — particularly if it becomes possible to quickly and accurately access images existing inside an artist’s head. The technology might also lead to new treatments for conditions such as psychiatric disorders involving hallucinations, by providing doctors a direct window into the mind of the patient.
ATR chief researcher Yukiyasu Kamitani says, “This technology can also be applied to senses other than vision. In the future, it may also become possible to read feelings and complicated emotional states.”
The research results appear in the December 11 issue of US science journal Neuron. - thebadkitty, on 12/11/2008, -2/+28agreed. .jpegs are too loss-y
- nitsua11513, on 12/11/2008, -0/+26Sorry, forgot that I had access to sciencedirect since i was on campus. You can download the article from here now http://www.mediafire.com/?gmlefuzunng Hope that helps
- UCFartstudntJON, on 12/11/2008, -1/+24isn't this just like the movie Paprika?
- Omr1, on 12/11/2008, -2/+24Bush = Cookie monster??
- KayinAngel, on 12/11/2008, -2/+23see, Fringe isn't *that* stupid when you think about it... right... right ?
- teemingvoid, on 12/11/2008, -0/+19I was under the impression thats what the fuzzy blocks under the blocks that said neuron in the title were supposed to be. They said that was the scope of the test was reading "neuron"
- asskicker32, on 12/11/2008, -0/+19FTA: “These results are a breakthrough in terms of understanding brain activity,” says Dr. Cheng. “In as little as 10 years, advances in this field of research may make it possible to read a person’s thoughts with some degree of accuracy.”
this is both awesome and scary. - inactive, on 12/12/2008, -1/+18You: G U C C I
Men: C O O C H I E -
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