Magnetic scanner can read the mind

[xes]

sorry for the daily fail link, but this is quite an interesting little story

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ner-videos-playing-inside-peoples-brains.html

Scientists have created a revolutionary brain imaging process which allows them to 'see' moving images inside people's minds. As the test subjects think of a video, the researchers 'see' it on screen.
It's the most astonishing demonstration of 'mind reading' technology ever demonstrated.

The academics from the University of California, Berkeley, managed to decipher brain activity by measuring blood flow through the brain's visual cortex, and used this information to construct images of what they were 'thinking'.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2040599/Minds-eye-Experts-use-magnetic-scanner-videos-playing-inside-peoples-brains.html#ixzz1Z5SqBNUA

ok, they're hardly clear, but this is a good start! Couple of videos on the link also.

 

[dilute micro]

This is not going to be a good thing.

 

[Cid]

Much more detail on the lab's site:

http://gallantlab.org/

Gonna have a read now, this year is fucking insane.

 

[Pseudopsycho]

Inception here we come!

 

[Cid]

It's interpreting fMRI data btw, not some kind of magical new scanner (not that fMRI technology isn't completely amazing).

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It's through the visual cortex though right? So this isn't reading 'minds' as such is it?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

It's through the visual cortex though right? So this isn't reading 'minds' as such is it?

Plus, on every video they present to every test subject it fails completely on every guess every time.

 

[xes]

it just needs to be tuned in a little better......

 

[dilute micro]

This is just the beginning. Just wait till people can read your minds...at school, at home, on a date.

 

[fogbat]

It's not even a beginning.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

This is the video (it won't embed):-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nsjDnYxJ0bo#t=8s

 

[Santino]

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning. It is not even the beginning of the beginning. It's the beginning of the bit before the beginning, a bit of undetermined length.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

it just needs to be tuned in a little better......

It's only reading retinal information. It needs to be something else completely to read the mind.

 

[stuff_it]

This is just the beginning. Just wait till people can read your minds...at school, at home, on a date.

'Is that an fMRI scanner in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me'

 

[Mungy]

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning. It is not even the beginning of the beginning. It's the beginning of the bit before the beginning, a bit of undetermined length.

the anticipation?