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Scientists Use fMRI To (Sort of) Read Minds

Posted by kdawson on from the penny-for-your-thoughts-nevermind-we'll-just-take-them dept.

NigelTheFrog writes "Researchers in England have used fMRI to map the activity in volunteers' hippocampuses. From these scans, they could pinpoint exactly where they were in a virtual reality landscape. 'Specific parts of each participant's hippocampus were active after that person had navigated to particular places in the room. A few practice rounds provided fodder for creating algorithms for each participant that correlated different brain activity patterns with different virtual locations. The algorithms, the team found, could in turn "predict" new virtual locations, not those used during practice rounds, based on each person's pattern of brain activity.'"

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  1. Re:Practical applications by jessica_alba · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    lol!!wish i had mod points!

  2. Re:Volunteer? by buswolley · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They call me the Hiphopopotamus My lyrics are bottomless They call me the Hiphopopotamus Flows that glow like phosphorous Poppin' off the top of this esophagus Rockin' this metropolis I'm not a large water-dwelling mammal Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did Steve tell you that, perchance? Steve.

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  3. Yeah, but the new IBM microscope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    can read your thought's thoughts

    http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10141097-76.html

  4. mo3 uP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. Re:Volunteer? by turgid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Do they smoke astroturf in space, Bowie?

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