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2008-04-08

Mind Control

Mind control (or "brainwashing") refers to a broad range of psychological tactics able to subvert an individual's control of his own thinking, behavior, emotions, or decisions. The concept is closely related to hypnosis, but differs in practical approach.
Mind control - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are a number of controversial issues regarding mind control and the methods by which control might be attained. Some are discusse in the next videos.

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2010-04-11

Intel's Mind-Reading Software

Clipped from: FOXNews.com - Intel Shows Off Mind-Reading Software

Intel Shows Off Mind-Reading Software

NEW YORK-- Mind reading may no longer be the domain of psychics and fortune tellers -- now some computers can do it, too.

Clipped from: Intel demos software that reads your mind | Cutting Edge - CNET News

Intel demos software that reads your mind

At Intel's Tech Heaven event in Manhattan on Wednesday, the company demonstrated software under development that can tell--under very controlled circumstances--what a person is thinking by reading brain waves. The chipmaker has been working with Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh to develop software and an interface to convert brain waves scanned from MRIs into something recognizable by computers.

Though still in the early research stages, the technology looks promising to researchers. In a preliminary test conducted by Intel Labs senior researcher Dean Pomerleau, the system scanned a person's brain to record its activity while showing the person certain words, specifically concrete objects like "barn" and "house" and "screwdriver."

Clipped from: 'Mind-reading' brain scan software debuts

'Mind-reading' brain scan software debuts

The Human Brain demo is a joint project between Intel, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh to allow thought-based user interfaces.

The software analyses functional MRI scans to determine what parts of a person's brain is being activated as he or she thinks. In tests, it guessed with 90 per cent accuracy which of two words a person was thinking about, said Intel Labs researcher Dean Pomerleau.

Eventually, the technology could help the severely physically disabled to communicate. And Pomerleau sees it as an early step toward one day being able to control technology with our minds.

Clipped from: Jan. 13: Carnegie Mellon Scientists Crack Brain's Codes for Noun Meanings - Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon Scientists Crack
Brain's Codes for Noun Meanings

Identifying Thoughts Through Brain Codes Leads To Deciphering the Brain's Dictionary

"In effect, we discovered how the brain's dictionary is organized," said Just, the D.O. Hebb Professor of Psychology and director of the Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging. "It isn't alphabetical or ordered by the sizes of objects or their colors. It's through the three basic features that the brain uses to define common nouns like apartment, hammer and carrot."

As the researchers report today in the journal PLoS One, the three codes or factors concern basic human fundamentals: (1) how you physically interact with the object (how you hold it, kick it, twist it, etc.); (2) how it is related to eating (biting, sipping, tasting, swallowing); and (3) how it is related to shelter or enclosure. The three factors, each coded in three to five different locations in the brain, were found by a computer algorithm that searched for commonalities among brain areas in how participants responded to 60 different nouns describing physical objects. For example, the word apartment evoked high activation in the five areas that code shelter-related words.

In the case of hammer, the motor cortex was the brain area activated to code the physical interaction. "To the brain, a key part of the meaning of hammer is how you hold it, and it is the sensory-motor cortex that represents 'hammer holding,'" said Cherkassky, who has a background in both computer science and neuroscience.

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2007-10-22

Weird Russian Mind-Control Research

A dungeon-like room in the Psychotechnology Research Institute in Moscow is used for human testing. The institute claims its technology can read the subconscious mind and alter behavior.

Semantic Stimuli Response Measurements Technology, or SSRM Tek,

SSRM Tek is presented to a subject as an innocent computer game that flashes subliminal images across the screen -- like pictures of Osama bin Laden or the World Trade Center. The "player" -- a traveler at an airport screening line, for example -- presses a button in response to the images, without consciously registering what he or she is looking at. The terrorist's response to the scrambled image involuntarily differs from the innocent person's, according to the theory.

Weird Russian Mind-Control Research Behind Homeland Security Contract

related: HSDW View Article

2007-04-08

Kan Derren Brown ook schaken?

Mind control video's van de bekende mentalist Derren Bown werden hier eerder besproken in LinkNotes: Derren Brown "Mind Control" video clips Hier is er een met een schaakact:

Derren Brown plays chess with 9 players simultaneously! VideoSift

2007-12-18

Microsoft's mind reading patent -- The future of advertising?

The art of predicting customer behaviour

In August 2007, software giant Microsoft filed a patent application for a system that would allow it to access thoughts. The patent describes pattern-recognition techniques that can be applied to electroencephalograph (EEG) signals – a measure of electrical activity in the brain – to determine what cognitive state the subject is in.
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For one thing, its presence in the computer games market opens up intriguing possibilities: it could use brainwaves as a control mechanism.

There are other possibilities too. Microsoft has an avowed commitment to taking on search engine giant Google in the lucrative online advertising market. Now that is one area where a little mind reading could go a very long way.

Microsoft's mind reading patent | Information Age

via: The Debris Field: Microsoft's mind reading patent
related: United States Patent Application: 0070185697
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2007-08-28

Mindcontrol (video)

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2006-12-17

Derren Brown "Mind Control" video clips

Mentalisme is een vorm van amusement waarbij de artiest (mentalist) experimenten doet met zijn publiek die de illusie creëren dat hij over buitengewone mentale vaardigheden en vermogens beschikt. [...]
Enkele theorien die binnen mentalisme verpakt kunnen worden zijn: NLP, Lichaamstaal, Conditioneren, Hypnose, Suggestie, Magisch denken, Telepathie, Telekinese, Psychokentica, Onontdekte krachten, Zintuigen, Enz.

Een internationaal bekende mentalist is Derren Brown. De volgende link bevat een aantal van zijn "Mind Control" video's:

Derren Brown - Video clips

2012-06-07

Lucid Dream Control Devices

BBC News - Lucid dreaming: Rise of a nocturnal hobby

Lucid dreaming technically refers to any occasion when the sleeper is aware they are dreaming. But it is also used to describe the idea of being able to control those dreams.

Once confined to a handful of niche groups, interest in lucid dreaming has grown in recent years, spurred on by a spate of innovations from smartphone apps to specialist eye masks, all promising the ability to influence our dreams.

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... Dream:ON, the most popular of the many new smartphone apps now available.

Created by psychologist Richard Wiseman, the app has seen over half a million downloads in just six weeks.

"The new wave of interest is led by technology," says Wiseman, whose app claims to allow users to choose their dream before bed, and plays sound cues once they have entered the right phase of sleep.

Source: BBC News - Lucid dreaming: Rise of a nocturnal hobby

Dream:ON - The App to Influence Your Dreams

Before going to bed you indicate the type of dream you would like to have and when you want to wake up. You then place your iPhone on your bed and go to sleep. Dream:ON then activates and begins monitoring your sleep pattern.

When Dream:ON senses that you are dreaming, it plays a 'soundscape' that has been carefully designed to help create your desired dream. Whilst your chosen soundscape is playing, Dream:ON continues to monitor your movement and adjusts the volume accordingly to ensure you're not woken up.

Source: Dream:ON - The App to Influence Your Dreams

Dream:ON - YouTube

Source: Dream:ON - YouTube

Dreams can come true: Can we really control our night reveries? | Metro.co.uk

‘The app monitors your movements throughout the night because when you dream you’re totally still,’ said Professor Wiseman.

‘If it detects stillness in the 20 minutes before you wake up it plays in the soundscape then wakes you up at the end of the dream.

‘It seems to work for about 30 per cent of people. The more you use it, the more it works. Some people love it – it makes their dreams very vivid and very colourful.’

At the moment, the app is about incorporating the soundscape into the dream rather than initiating it. But in the future, will it be possible to control our dreams?

‘We know that you can because external stimuli, like your alarm clock going off, people often incorporate into their dreams. So we know the mechanism is there, it’s not a wild claim.’

The Dream:ON soundscapes are based on what customers want from a dream, but Professor Wiseman admits there have been some more outlandish requests than birdsong.

Source: Dreams can come true: Can we really control our night reveries? | Metro.co.uk

Taking Control of Your Dreams | Innovations

New York inventors Duncan Frazier and Steve McGuigan have taken a different approach. Instead of incorporating sound to help people shape their dreams, they use light. They’ve created a sleep mask they call the Remee, which comes with six red LED lights and runs on a three-volt battery.

The device waits until a person is four to five hours into their night’s sleep–a time when periods of REM sleep tend to last longer–then begins flashing the lights in a pattern that lasts 15 to 20 seconds. It’s a visual cue meant to remind the person that they’re dreaming, which is key to having them take control of what happens.

Clearly, there’s lots of interest in driving dreams. When Frazier and McGuigan posted their idea on Kickstarter, they hoped to raise $35,000. More than 6,500 people have pledged almost $600,000 to help them out.

Source: Taking Control of Your Dreams | Innovations

Remee - The REM enhancing Lucid Dreaming Mask by Bitbanger Labs — Kickstarter

So how does it work?
Sleep stages are divided into two main categories: non-REM sleep and REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, where dreams typically occur. Over the course of the night a sleeper will cycle through the five stages of sleep a number of times with the REM stages lasting longer and longer towards morning.

In default mode, Remee targets these long chunks of REM sleep towards the end of the sleep period. Before bed, turn Remee on, fine tune the brightness of the lights (if needed) and then go to sleep. Remee will wait for an initial long delay, usually 4-5 hours, until you're in the heart of the heavy REM stages, before initializing light patterns. After the initial long delay Remee will display light patterns for 15-20 seconds with a second shorter delay, default at 15 minutes, between each signal. During non-REM sleep the lights are unlikely to effect you, but if you're in REM sleep the lights will bleed into your dreams, presenting a perfect chance to become lucid.

Source: Remee - The REM enhancing Lucid Dreaming Mask by Bitbanger Labs — Kickstarter

Lucid dreaming academy | Lucidipedia.com

Lucid Dreams on Discovery Channel - YouTube

The real science of dream research - Technology & science - Science - msnbc.com

Dream machine: Control your sleeping mind with Remee | Digital Trends

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DreamStar Lucid Dream Induction Device Using the Control Centre - YouTube

The NovaDreamer Lucid Dream Induction Device

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Novadreamer Tutorial Pt. 2 - YouTube

2007-11-15

Moving Your Eyes Improves Memory

clipped from www.livescience.com

If you’re looking for a quick memory fix, move your eyes from side-to-side for 30 seconds, researchers say.

Horizontal eye movements are thought to cause the two hemispheres of the brain to interact more with one another, and communication between brain hemispheres is important for retrieving certain types of memories.

Previous studies have suggested that horizontal eye movements improve how well people recall specific words they have just seen. But Andrew Parker and his colleagues at Manchester Metropolitan University in England wanted to know whether such eye movements might also help people recognize words they have just seen.

Moving Your Eyes Improves Memory, Study Suggests | LiveScience

2008-12-12

Mind Reading Software

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fMRI Extracts Images From The Brain

Researchers from ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Japan used a functional MRI machine on the brain to read the letters and symbols that the eyes of a subject were seeing.

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Scientists develop software that can map dreams

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'Mind-reading' software could record your dreams

Brain scanning can now extract information directly from the brain: the subject read the word "neuron" at the top, and software working with the brain scan images reconstructed the word (below) (Image: Neuron/Cell Press)

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Decoding Neural Signals

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We develop the decoding techniques reading the states of mind by non-invasive brain imaging, fMRI or MEG. Especially, we aim to reveal subjective perceptual and cognitive contents.

2007-10-05

BBC's Psychological Tests Page

Surveys and Psychology Tests

Explore your memory
Art and personality
What sex is your brain?
Do you see what I see?
Do you hear what I hear?
The 'What am I like?' personality test
Disgust
Spot the fake smile
Memory training
Face perception
Personality
Morals
Lonely hearts
Millionaire
Careers
Sensation seeking
Self-control
Perfectionism
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Necker cube

BBC - Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Surveys

2007-09-23

Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind

Read about:

Consciousness
Deep Freeze
Mortal Mystery
Nature vs. Nurture
Brain Teaser
Memory Lane
Mission Control
Phantom Feelings
Slumber Sleuth
Sweet Dreams

奇文共欣赏: Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind (Yahoo)

2008-01-16

Mind Control Monkey Moves Robot in Japan (video)

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Japanese robot walks like a monkey

TOKYO (AFP) — It may walk like a Japanese robot, but it's thinking like a monkey in the United States. Japanese and US researchers said Wednesday they have created a humanoid robot that acts according to the brain activity of a monkey all the way across the Pacific.

The experiment was part of efforts to develop prosthetic limbs which can be mentally controlled by people with disabilities.

A laboratory in the western Japanese city of Kyoto unveiled a 155-centimetre (62-inch) tall humanoid, with a friendly-looking face including bulging black eyes, who walked via signals coming into its legs through wires.

Researchers said the robot was responding to the cortical brain activity of a monkey that was walking attached to wires on a treadmill at Duke University in North Carolina. The signal was sent via the Internet.

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2008-04-18

Emotiv's new brain-computer interface

Emotiv Systems recently unveiled a brain/computer interface system with a helmet and software applications. The Project Epoc system can move objects based on a gamer's thoughts, reflect facial expressions, and respond to the excitement or calm the gamer mentally exerts.

clipped from www.tomorrowstrends.com

Brain controlled computer games

Below is a video discussing and demonstrating Emotiv's new brain interface.

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Emotiv Systems introduces a sensor-laden headset that interprets gamers' intentions, emotions and facial expressions

EPOC GAMING HEADSET: Emotiv's $299 EPOC headset (with 14 sensors) will enable gamers to use their own brain activity to interact with the virtual worlds where they play.
Courtesy of Emotiv Systems

The EPOC detects brain activity noninvasively using electroencephalography (EEG), a measure of brain waves, via external sensors along the scalp that pick up the electrical bustle in various parts of the furrowed surface of the brain's cortex, a region that handles higher order thoughts.

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2010-10-28

Dream Recording

New brain machine reads minds

Scientists connect activity of neurons to computer and show how a person can fade images in and out by thinking about them

A new advance in brain-machine interfaces could enable scientists to one day decode what a person is thinking simply by monitoring brain cell activity.

The finding, detailed in the Oct. 27 issue of the journal Nature, could also help researchers understand how the brain performs its myriad visual tricks, such as recognizing someone in a crowd.

Collected from: New brain machine reads minds - Technology & science - Tech and gadgets - TechNewsDaily - msnbc.com

BBC News - Dream recording device 'possible' researcher claims

A US researcher has said he plans to electronically record and interpret dreams.

Dr Cerf makes his bold claim based on an initial study that he says suggests that the activity of individual brain cells, or neurons, are associated with specific objects or concepts.

He found, for example, that when a volunteer was thinking of Marilyn Monroe, a particular neuron lit up.

By showing volunteers a series of images, Dr Cerf and his colleagues were able to identify neurons for a wide range of objects and concepts - which they used to build up a database for each patient. These included Bill and Hilary Clinton, the Eiffel Tower and celebrities.

So by observing which brain cell lit up and when, Dr Cerf says he was effectively able to "read the subjects' minds".

Collected from: BBC News - Dream recording device 'possible' researcher claims

Collected from: Neuron Recordings Capture Brain Focus on Josh Brolin | Wired Science | Wired.com

Sources: New brain machine reads minds - Technology & science - Tech and gadgets - TechNewsDaily - msnbc.com; BBC News - Dream recording device 'possible' researcher claims; Neuron Recordings Capture Brain Focus on Josh Brolin | Wired Science | Wired.com

Related: Center for Consciousness Center . Tucson . Arizona; Access : On-line, voluntary control of human temporal lobe neurons : Nature; Scientist hope to record our dreams | Mail Online; Scientists plan to record people's dreams - Telegraph; Mind-Reading Scanner Could Record and Analyze Dreams, Says Brain Researcher | Popular Science; Mind-reading machines could soon record your dreams

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