They Can See Inside Your Mind
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A Japanese research team has created a technology that can extract images from the human brain and could one day be used to display people’s dreams on a computer screen.
Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the brain,
“It was the first time in the world that it was possible to visualise what people see directly from the brain activity,” the private institute said.
“By applying this technology, it may become possible to record and replay subjective images that people perceive, like dreams.”
When people look at an object, the eye’s retina recognises an image that is converted into electrical signals which go into the brain’s visual cortex.
The team, led by chief researcher Yukiyasu Kamitani, succeeded in catching the signals and then reconstructing what people see.
In their experiment, the researchers showed people the six letters in the word “neuron” and then succeeded in reconstructing the letters on a computer screen by measuring their brain activity.
The team said that it first figured out people’s individual brain patterns by showing them some 400 different still images.
Amazing but a little scary at the same time.
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