{"id":148401,"date":"2022-10-18T13:23:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T18:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-social-brain-ep-4-brain-decoding-the-science-of-mind-reading"},"modified":"2022-10-18T13:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T18:23:50","slug":"the-social-brain-ep-4-brain-decoding-the-science-of-mind-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-social-brain-ep-4-brain-decoding-the-science-of-mind-reading","title":{"rendered":"The Social Brain Ep.4: Brain Decoding: The Science of \u2018Mind Reading\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FS_tZ7cdTNM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Can scientists read your mind and figure out what you\u2019re thinking just by looking at your brain? Well, sort of.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of The Social Brain with Taylor Guthrie (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The\">@The<\/a> Cellular Republic) and I (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sense\">@Sense<\/a> of Mind) talk about a fascinating new area of cognitive neuroscience, called \u201cbrain decoding\u201d as well as its counterpart, \u201cbrain encoding,\u201d and related topics. It all centers on the question posed above and the future applications, some of which are scary while others are inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 What do you want us to cover in future episodes? Drop it in the comments!<\/p>\n<p>Link to follow:<br \/> Make sure to subscribe to Taylor\u2019s Channel: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The\">@The<\/a> Cellular Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Videos that we mentioned:<br \/> - Breaking the Neural Code (James Haxby talk): <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gl3du4CaALg\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/gl3du4CaALg<\/a>.<br \/> - Kanwisher vs. Haxby Debate: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/u1xTfTPqWmo\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/u1xTfTPqWmo<\/a>.<br \/> - Decoding Language Representation (Alexander Huth talk): <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rmqzLv089b4\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/rmqzLv089b4<\/a><br \/> - Engineering Thoughts and Memories (Jack Gallant talk): <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/muwIhFLqies\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/muwIhFLqies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Podcast: Social Brain Podcast:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-social-brain-ep-4-brain-decoding-the-science-of-mind-reading\">Continue reading \u201cThe Social Brain Ep.4: Brain Decoding: The Science of \u2018Mind Reading\u2019\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can scientists read your mind and figure out what you\u2019re thinking just by looking at your brain? Well, sort of. In this episode of The Social Brain with Taylor Guthrie (@The Cellular Republic) and I (@Sense of Mind) talk about a fascinating new area of cognitive neuroscience, called \u201cbrain decoding\u201d as well as its counterpart, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,47,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-neuroscience","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}