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Article: Mind Reading is Here.(The Technologist)(brain activity)
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- Newsweek International
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- February 4, 2008
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Byline: Sharon Begley
crime investigators always have their ears open for information only a perpetrator could know. So imagine a detective asking a suspect about a killing, describing the crime scene to get the suspect to visualize the attack. The detective then asks him to envision the weapon. Pay dirt: his pattern of brain activity screams "hammer" as loud and clear as if he had blurted it out.
The prospect of reading thoughts by decoding brain-activity patterns is no longer difficult to imagine. "The new realization is that every thought is associated with a pattern of brain activity," says neuroscientist John-Dylan Haynes of the Max Planck Institute ...