I am reminded of the work of musical composer David Rosenboom 30+ years ago where he attempted to eliminate the middle-man of the musical instrument by having synthesizers directly play the music imagined by the performer as calculated from the EEG. Interesting results can be heard in his album "Brainwave Music".
It seems to me that the truly remarkable technology would do what Rosenboom was trying to do rather than creating an image calculated from an MRI of what is stimulating the retina. The current results seem to be little more than showing that we know which finger has been stimulated by getting recordings from the sensory cortex. Bill Scott >>> "Mike Palij" 09/25/11 9:49 AM >>> 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=13058.902daf6855267276c83a639cbb25165c&n=T&l=tips&o=12942 or send a blank email to leave-12942-13058.902daf6855267276c83a639cbb251...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- 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=12972 or send a blank email to leave-12972-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
