FMRI Imaging of Dreams

http://bodyodd.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/04/17603830-computers-can-see-peoples-dreams?lite

by VaedaStrike • 13 years ago

10 3 13 years ago

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a_bonobo• 13 years ago

Here's the original paper: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/04/03/science.1...

simonster• 13 years ago

While this paper is cool, I'm not sure it reflects a real scientific advance. O'Craven and Kanwisher showed in 2000 that brain regions that when subjects imagine faces or scenes, face- or scene-selective brain areas are selectively activated (http://www.pet.au.dk/~andreas/seminars/cog-exp/files/OCraven...). This paper builds on that previous result by showing that this result also holds for hypnagogic imagery. It's interesting but not really unexpected.

maebert• 13 years ago

Apart from the populistic BS that the magazines blow all things neuroscience up to, the machine learning technique behind these kinds of studies are actually very clever (and a lot more robust than most "traditional" fMRI findings that produce headlines like "scientists discovered brain area causing teenage angst". If you want a former neuroscientist ranting about bad fMRI research for a page or so, let me know :)

FMRI Imaging of Dreams

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