The mass media is picking up a on research article published in "Current Biology" which claims that a neuroscience research group was able to reconstruct "video mental images" from brain activity. One popular media account is provided by ABC (US) news and can be accessed here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/scientists-youtube-videos-mind/story?id=14573442
The research was conducted in Jack Gallant's lab at UC-Berkeley and here is media release put out by the university: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/ Here is link to Gallant's lab's website where more info can be obtained; see: https://sites.google.com/site/gallantlabucb/publications/nishimoto-et-al-2011 If replicable, this line of research may be turn out to be very interesting (see Roger Shepard's American Psychologist's article "The Mental Image" where he discusses a hypothetical mechanism that allows one to "see" the mental images in another person's mind). But it leaves unanswered the question of who/what in the brain is watching the mental videos. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=12942 or send a blank email to leave-12942-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
