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New technology to show dreams on screen
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Thursday, Dec 11, 2008
A Japanese research team has invented a technology that if completed
could display people's thoughts and dreams on a computer screen.
Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories
say they have succeeded in processing and displaying images directly
from the human brain that may open the door to unexplored dimensions
of the brain and shed light on the function of dreams in the human
psyche.
The study is still in its primitive stages and so far the images
that the team has managed to pick up from electrical signals of
the brain are still very simple. The research team, however, hopes
to eventually use the technology to figure out dreams and visualize
what people imagine in their minds.
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When people look at an object, the eye's retina recognizes 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 these signals and then reconstructing what people
see on screen.
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.
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