...able to reconstruct YouTube videos from a subject’s brain activity... ????

[Electric Monk]

http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/09/24/scientists_turn_brain_activity_into_moving_images.html

Scientists Turn Brain Activity Into Moving Images :wow:

There are lots of comparisons to be made: DVR for the brain, seeing through someone else’s eyes, or a real life version of “Minority Report.” But whatever you call it, what researchers at UC Berkeley have done with new research could have major implications for getting inside someone’s head.

Authors of a new study published in Current Biology were able to reconstruct YouTube videos from a subject’s brain activity with the help of magnetic resonance imaging. In other words, study subjects watched videos while their brains were monitored, and scientists were later able to reconstruct approximate images of those videos from the brain imaging data.

“This is a major leap toward reconstructing internal imagery,” coauthor and psychology professor Jack Gallant told ABC News. “We are opening a window into the movies in our minds.”

(snip)

The results are haunting, ghostly pictures — but they’re also pretty unfocused. In other words, it’s going to be a long time before you get brainwave movies in full HD.

http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/09/24/scientists_turn_brain_activity_into_moving_images.html

The video at the link is pretty creepy, if you ask me, even though it's blurry and unfocused.

[saras]

1. Hook it up to Stevie Wonder! I wanna see HIS movies!

[Electric Monk]

3. That'd be fascinating, to see what he sees while he's playing music.

:wow:

[MADem]

2. I think that is quite remarkable! If they ever get good at it, they'll have to

debate the acceptability of "tapping the resource," as it were, in cases where crimes were committed, etc.