Scary or sensational? A machine that can look into the mind
Scientists have developed a computerised mind-reading technique which lets them accurately predict the images that people are looking at by using scanners to study brain activity.
Psychic 'mind-reading' computer will show your thoughts on screen
The device studies patterns of brainwave activity and turns them into a moving image on a computer screen.
Computer Uses Brain Scans to Read Minds
Associate professor of psychology Jack Gallant and two researchers, Kendrick Kay and Thomas Naselaris, first trained a computer program to recognize which of a set of 1,750 photos Kay and Naselaris were looking at while their brains were scanned by an MRI machine of the sort ordinarily used in hospitals.
A computer display shows magnetic resonance scans of a human brain in Magdeburg, Germany in a 2005 file photo.
Jack Gallant
Professor (Psychology)
Research areas: Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience
The goal of the Gallant Lab is to understand the structure and function of the human visual system at a quantitative, computational level, and to build models that accurately predict how the brain will respond during natural vision. Predictive models of brain activity are the gold standard of computational neuroscience, and are critical for the long-term advancement of neuroscience and medicine.
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