Researchers developing mind-reading software
In a study published Thursday in the journal Plos Computational Biology, researchers from the US used computational software to decode brain signals and predict what their subjects were seeing in real time.
“Researchers have been able to decode images that you see for something like 15 years with some degree of accuracy, but they always told their algorithms ahead of time when their test subjects were shown some pictures,” said Kai Miller, paper lead author and a neuroscientist at Stanford University, over the phone.
“Our technique is really new in the sense that it can read from the brain signals in real time, without information on how often it should be looking for some perceptual event. It decodes the brain signals continuously,” Miller added.
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