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Description A Japanese research team has revealed it had created a technology that could eventually display on a computer screen what people have on their minds, such as dreams.
Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar.
You're gonna go far, fly high,
You're never gonna die,
You're gonna make it if you try;
They're gonna love you.
Researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories succeeded in processing and displaying images directly from the human brain, they said in a study unveiled ahead of publication in the US magazine Neuron.
Well I've always had a deep respect,
And I mean that most sincerely.
The band is just fantastic,
that is really what I think.
Oh by the way, which one's Pink?
While the team for now has managed to reproduce only simple images from the brain, they said the technology could eventually be used to figure out dreams and other secrets inside people’s minds.
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy,
We call it Riding the Gravy Train.
We're just knocked out.
We heard about the sell out.
"It was the first time in the world that it was possible to visualize what people see directly from the brain activity," the private institute said in a statement.
You owe it to the people.
We're so happy we can hardly count.
Everybody else is just green,
Have you seen the chart?
"By applying this technology, it may become possible to record and replay subjective images that people perceive like dreams."
When people look at an object, the eye’s retina recognizes an image that is converted into electrical signals which go into the brain’s visual cortex.
It's a helluva start,
It could be made into a monster
If we all pull together as a team.
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy,
We call it Riding the Gravy Train.
The team, led by chief researcher Yukiyasu Kamitani, succeeded in catching the signals and then reconstructing what people see.

Neuron magazine & Pink Floyd
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Comments: 3

TWBandit [2010-07-25 22:33:55 +0000 UTC]

Great picture, and wonderful magazine quote. I myself am absolutely fascinated with dreams, and I'm anxious to see some more of this machine that so produces images from the thoughts of its human subjects. At the same time, though, that sort of technology is a bit frightening.

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hic444 [2010-07-25 21:45:49 +0000 UTC]

Really a great picture. It shocked me the first time I saw it, and made me look at it again. It has that great initial shock factor that draws people in. Well done

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Sigma-Echo-Seven [2010-07-25 15:44:27 +0000 UTC]

Fascinating!

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