Scientists Closer to Reading Words From Your Brain

http://singularityhub.com/2010/09/08/scientists-closer-to-reading-words-from-your-brain/

by jamesbritt • 16 years ago

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treeface• 16 years ago

That's some interesting research they're doing. I'd be be more interested to see if somebody can translate it to an electroencephalographic device. I suspect that placing electrodes directly onto the surface of the brain would be a dealbreaker for those of us without an immediate need to have our thoughts processed by a computer in real time (however cool that concept might be).

sp3322• 16 years ago

There's an external headset that "unwrinkles" your brain algorithmically and gets very accurate readings without requiring direct contact with your brain. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/tan_le_a_headset_that_read...

frisco2• 16 years ago

Hi, neuroscientist here. The stuff about it "unwrinkling" the brain is nonsense. Emotiv is a running joke in the scientific community, unfortunately. EEG has some fundamental problems as a control mechanism, and isn't interesting from a brain-machine interfacing perspective. It's unfortunate because we all want to see neural interfaces, but it will either have to be invasive or come from a major Nobel-worthy innovation.

enjo• 16 years ago

I really do believe the next big disruptor (on the scale of something like space travel or the internet) is going to be in our ability to harness brain power to directly manipulate our world.

There is so much research going on and a lot of it is quite advanced. Some day we'll put it all together and the results are going to be amazing. Not only in curing disease, but in fundamentally changing how we interact with our machines.

I can't wait.

bh422• 16 years ago

I really do believe the next big disruptor (on the scale of something like space travel or the internet) is going to be in our ability to harness brain power to directly manipulate our world.

Can't we already do that? I mean, you might have to work a huge machine using a joystick or something, but would eliminating the joystick be that much better?

I see it more as way to prevent carpal tunnel syndrome for programmers.

What's much more interesting for me is the ability to take a full image of someone's brain. It would be an interesting type of backup...

swah• 16 years ago

Do you feel that is possible?

greenlblue• 16 years ago

What if you don't think in words? What if your natural mode of thinking is in terms of fuzzy images and funky metaphors? Looks like I'll have lots of gainful employment in the new dystopian future.

Scientists Closer to Reading Words From Your Brain

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