{"id":148837,"date":"2022-10-25T02:23:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T07:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/new-technique-for-decoding-peoples-thoughts-can-now-be-done-from-a-distance"},"modified":"2022-10-25T02:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T07:23:48","slug":"new-technique-for-decoding-peoples-thoughts-can-now-be-done-from-a-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/new-technique-for-decoding-peoples-thoughts-can-now-be-done-from-a-distance","title":{"rendered":"New Technique For Decoding People\u2019s Thoughts Can Now Be Done From a Distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-technique-for-decoding-peoples-thoughts-can-now-be-done-from-a-distance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists can now \u201cdecode\u201d people\u2019s thoughts without even touching their heads, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/news-opinion\/researchers-report-decoding-thoughts-from-fmri-data-70661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Scientist<\/em> reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Past mind-reading techniques relied on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/53535-computer-reads-thoughts-instantaneously.html\">implanting electrodes<\/a> deep in peoples\u2019 brains. The new method, described in a report posted 29 Sept. to the preprint database bioRxiv, instead relies on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2022.09.29.509744v1.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noninvasive brain scanning technique<\/a> called functional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/magnetic-resonance-imaging\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">magnetic resonance imaging<\/a> (fMRI).<\/p>\n<p>FMRI tracks the flow of oxygenated blood through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/29365-human-brain.html\">brain<\/a>, and because active brain cells need more energy and oxygen, this information provides an indirect measure of brain activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists can now \u201cdecode\u201d people\u2019s thoughts without even touching their heads, The Scientist reported. Past mind-reading techniques relied on implanting electrodes deep in peoples\u2019 brains. The new method, described in a report posted 29 Sept. to the preprint database bioRxiv, instead relies on a noninvasive brain scanning technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). FMRI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148837","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}