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Brain scanners can tell what you're thinking about

New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427323.500-brain-scanners-can-tell-what-youre-thinking-about.html

Oct 28, 2009

Using scans of brain activity, researchers can now recreate moving images that volunteers are viewing, and even make educated guesses about what they are remembering. Last week at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, Jack Gallant, a leading "neural decoder" at UC Berkeley and a core member of the UCB/UCSF Graduate Group in Bioengineering, presented one of the field's most impressive results yet.