Thursday, February 2, 2012

Scientist say: Mind-reading could soon become a reality

It may now appear to be just the stuff of science fiction but scientists say that a mind-reading device is inching its way closer to reality. In fact, an international team claims to have already showed that it could tell what someone was hearing just by decoding their brain waves, a
breakthrough which may lead to an implant that can interpret imagined speech in patients who can’t talk
Scientists could soon be able to eavesdrop on the constant, internal monologs that run through people's minds, or hear the imagined speech of those patients who cannot speak, a new study has revealed.
The scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have succeeded in decoding electrical activity in a region of the human auditory system............
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