Thursday, March 12, 2009

"A Step Closer to Reading the Mind"

Borg Cube, here we come:

Scientists say for the first time they have understood someone's thoughts by looking at what their brain is doing.


The hippocampus is widely known to be integral to memory, but researchers say they now see just how images are stored and recalled in this part of the brain...

Neurons in the hippocampus, also known as "place cells", activate when we move around to tell us where we are.

The team, based at University College London, then used specialised scanning equipment which measures changes in blood flow in the brain. - BBC

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3 comments:

Andy Christ said...

not even surprising as of yet...

James Ratte said...

Researchers at Duke University did that a decade ago with a Monkey, see a link here.

StrangEye said...

One step closer on the path to the Dollhouse.

With the foreknowledge that EVERY DISCOVERY IS explored for political and/or military application, we can only hollowly applaud this achievement.

~SE~
http://strangeye.blogspot.com

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