{"id":107,"date":"2014-03-29T03:06:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T03:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=107"},"modified":"2014-03-29T03:06:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T03:06:04","slug":"scientists-have-used-brain-scanners-to-detect-and-reconstruct-the-faces-that-people-are-thinking-of-according-to-a-a-study-accepted-for-publication-this-month-in-the-journal-neuroimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have used brain scanners to detect and reconstruct the faces that people are thinking of, according to a a study accepted for publication this month in the journal NeuroImage."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 id=\"article-title\" itemprop=\"name\">We know what you\u2019re thinking: Scientists find a way to read minds<\/h1>\n<div>\n<p itemprop=\"author\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">By\u00a0<a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/archive\/maxim-lott\" rel=\"author\">Maxim Lott<\/a><\/p>\n<p><time itemprop=\"datePublished\" datetime=\"2014-03-28T11:56-04:00\">Published March 28, 2014<\/time><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"sourceOrganization\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\">FoxNews.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"introduction\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/MediaObject\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" alt=\"Mind reading 2b.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/global.fncstatic.com\/static\/managed\/img\/Scitech\/Mind%20reading%202b.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p itemprop=\"sourceOrganization\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\">Scientists have used brain scanners to detect and reconstruct the faces that people are thinking of, a scientific achievement that could someday lead to a dream-recorder.\u00a0(ALAN COWEN)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" alt=\"Mind reading 2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/global.fncstatic.com\/static\/managed\/img\/Scitech\/Mind%20reading%202.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p itemprop=\"sourceOrganization\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\">Scientists have used brain scanners to detect and reconstruct the faces that people are thinking of, a scientific achievement that could someday lead to a dream-recorder.\u00a0(ALAN COWEN)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" alt=\"Mind reading 2c.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/global.fncstatic.com\/static\/managed\/img\/Scitech\/Mind%20reading%202c.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p itemprop=\"sourceOrganization\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\">Scientists have used brain scanners to detect and reconstruct the faces that people are thinking of, a scientific achievement that could someday lead to a dream-recorder.\u00a0(ALAN COWEN)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" itemprop=\"image\" alt=\"Mind reading 1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/global.fncstatic.com\/static\/managed\/img\/Scitech\/Mind%20reading%201.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p itemprop=\"sourceOrganization\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\">Scientists have used brain scanners to detect and reconstruct the faces that people are thinking of, a scientific achievement that could someday lead to a dream-recorder.\u00a0(ALAN COWEN)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2014\/03\/28\/know-what-youre-thinking-scientists-find-way-to-read-minds\/#\">Next Slide<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2014\/03\/28\/know-what-youre-thinking-scientists-find-way-to-read-minds\/#\">Previous Slide<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Think mind reading is science fiction?<\/p>\n<p>Think again.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have used brain scanners to detect and reconstruct the faces that people are thinking of, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science?_ob=ArticleListURL&amp;_method=list&amp;_ArticleListID=-546987323&amp;_sort=r&amp;_st=13&amp;view=c&amp;_acct=C000228598&amp;_version=1&amp;_urlVersion=0&amp;_userid=12975512&amp;md5=ad8d380b554a878e38aa0501e6fd7879&amp;searchtype=a\" target=\"_blank\">a study accepted for publication<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/global.fncstatic.com\/static\/v\/all\/img\/external-link.png\" \/>\u00a0this month in the journal\u00a0<i>NeuroImage.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In the study, scientists hooked participants up to an fMRI brain scanner \u2013 which determines activity in different parts of the brain by measuring blood flow \u2013 and showed them images of faces. Then, using only the brain scans, the scientists were able to create images of the faces the people were looking at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is mind reading,\u201d said Alan S. Cowen, a graduate student at the University of California Berkeley who co-authored the study with professor Marvin M. Chun from Yale and Brice A. Kuhl from New York University.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;You can even imagine, way down the road, a witness to a crime might want to come in and reconstruct a suspect\u2019s face.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Alan S. Cowen, a graduate student at the University of California Berkeley<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The study says it is the first to try to reconstruct faces from thoughts. The photos above are the actual photos and reconstructions done in the lab.<\/p>\n<p>While the reconstructions based on 30 brain readings are blurry, they approximate the true images. They got the skin color right in all of them, and 24 out of 30 reconstructions correctly detected the presence or absence of a smile.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2014\/03\/28\/know-what-youre-thinking-scientists-find-way-to-read-minds\/\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2014\/03\/28\/know-what-youre-thinking-scientists-find-way-to-read-minds\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know what you\u2019re thinking: Scientists find a way to read minds By\u00a0Maxim Lott Published March 28, 2014 FoxNews.com Scientists have used brain scanners to detect and reconstruct the faces that people are thinking of, a scientific achievement that could someday lead to a dream-recorder.\u00a0(ALAN COWEN) Scientists have used brain scanners to detect and reconstruct &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/?p=107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientists have used brain scanners to detect and reconstruct the faces that people are thinking of, according to a a study accepted for publication this month in the journal NeuroImage.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.free-rosary.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}