Vision Reconstruction

Using Hollywood movie trailers, UC Berkeley researchers have succeeded in decoding and reconstructing people's dynamic visual experiences.

The brain activity recorded while subjects viewed a set of film clips was used to create a computer program that learned to associate visual patterns in the movie with the corresponding brain activity. The brain activity evoked by a second set of clips was used to test the movie reconstruction algorithm. This was done by feeding 18 million seconds of random YouTube videos into the computer program so that it could predict the brain activity that each film clip would most likely evoke in each subject. Using the new computer model, researchers were able to decode brain signals generated by the films and then reconstruct those moving images.

Eventually, practical applications of the technology could include a better understanding of what goes on in the minds of people who cannot communicate verbally, such as stroke victims, coma patients and people with neurodegenerative diseases. It may also lay the groundwork for brain-machine devices that would allow people with cerebral palsy or paralysis, for example, to guide computers with their minds.

The lead author of the study, published in Current Biology on September 22, 2011, is Shinji Nishimoto, a post-doctoral researcher in the laboratory of Professor Jack Gallant, neursoscientist and coauthor of the study. Other coauthors include Thomas Naselaris with UC Berkeley's Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, An T. Vu with UC Berkeley's Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, and Yuval Benjamini and Professor Bin Yu with the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics.
Full story: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/0...
Video produced by Roxanne Makasdjian, UC Berkeley Media Relations

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[JohnRichard1991still]

Don't think about dick

Don't think about dick

[FrankLightheart]

I wonder if they can take a picture of my mind being blown?

[fracture82]

Yeah, no. Stop disasterbating. The only one who gets anything out of it is you.

[fracture82]

More! Need more, dammit. Give me 2 hours of this shit. Hell, just mount the camera in front of the computer and let it roll. I want to see exactly what the neuroscientist sees. But no. It's just a two minute edited summary of completely awesome research, while the average video about chemtrails, false flag operations, and weather weapons have 5-10 minutes introductions to bullshit.

[RHVids100]

aaand YOU THOUGHT ABOUT DICK!

then in the hearing reconstruction is the price is right losing music

[NJ4590]

HAhahahahaha!! funniest damn thing I've read in a while, thank you

[CognitiveNetwork]

I really look forward to the day I can use this technology to record my dreams, because they are very exciting, but I can never remember them in details.

[Piriathy]

Oh wow, the occipital parts of our brains do a better job of recognizing faces than almost anything else

[Nesh108]

More on this?

[mdcory3470]

Still in the stone ages? I'm well ahead of you.

[batmanseventeen]

this maps out what it is you're currently picturing. unless they can create something that digs out your memories that you're not even thinking of then sure. But what you're suggesting is pretty far off of what this is capable of. They'd have to strap you into an fMRI machine and demand that you imagine something that could be completely falsified- btw this technology doesn't relate to Brave New World and how they control the populations, maybe read the book again?

[thebatburger]

Guess you are one of the people who dislike the advancement of medicine