Scientists extract images directly from brain

Is the future awesome or what?

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.

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Posted By jamesk at 2008-12-12 11:34:41 permalink | comments

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guest : 2008-12-15 13:05:33

pretty funky

kilrari. : 2008-12-12 16:16:23

Actually, dreamdust, the significance of this is that the images were not preprogrammed or trained.

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They basically "preprogrammed" the pixels and how the brain processes contrast on a grid and used software to correlate where pixels are seen in the visual field to the fMRI scans.

dreamdust : 2008-12-12 11:51:44

This headline is very sensationalist. It's misleading in that nothing new has actually been accomplished by this "research". They can't extract images from the brain.

It's the same as showing someone a picture of a rose, then scanning their brain to look for areas that "light-up" on the fMRI when you show the rows. Then, whenever those areas light-up again, you have a computer show a picture of a rose. However, you never extracted a picture from the brain.

It's also the same as programming a computer to display pictures of drug-addicts when it detects fMRI scans that are associated with drug use.

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