Scanning the Brain, Finding Pictures
In a remarkable use of fMRI technology, researchers in Japan have been able to use brain imaging to map blood flow changes in the brain as subjects viewed images. After “learning” how blood flow changed when subjects viewed one set of images (simple characters, for example) a computer was able to reconstruct what the subjects were looking at when they were shown new images.
Bad ass.
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reminds me of the Wim Wenders film Until the End of the World. The “dream” machine in the film records the bio-mechanical event of seeing.
amusingly it seems I’m not the only one to notice the similiarity.
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/12/scientists-extract-images-directly-from-brain/#comment-321942