{"id":163466,"date":"2023-05-07T00:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T05:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/ai-plus-mri-yields-the-ability-to-recognize-what-the-mind-is-hearing"},"modified":"2023-05-07T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T05:22:21","slug":"ai-plus-mri-yields-the-ability-to-recognize-what-the-mind-is-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/ai-plus-mri-yields-the-ability-to-recognize-what-the-mind-is-hearing","title":{"rendered":"AI plus MRI yields the ability to recognize what the mind is hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-plus-mri-yields-the-ability-to-recognize-what-the-mind-is-hearing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have various ways of seeing what the brain is up to, from low-resolution electrodes that track waves of activity that ripple across the brain, to implanted electrodes that can follow the activity of individual cells. Combined with a detailed knowledge of which regions of the brain are involved in specific processes, we\u2019ve been able to do remarkable things, such as using functional MRI (fMRI) to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/uncategorized\/2008\/12\/mindreading-101-identifying-images-by-watching-the-brain\/\">determine what letter a person was looking at<\/a> or an implant to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2015\/05\/new-neural-implant-reads-a-persons-intentions-to-control-robotic-arm\/\">control a robotic arm.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But today, researchers announced a new bit of mind reading that\u2019s impressive in its scope. By combining fMRI brain imaging with a system that\u2019s somewhat like the predictive text of cell phones, they\u2019ve worked out the gist of the sentences a person is hearing in near real time. While the system doesn\u2019t get the exact words right and makes a fair number of mistakes, it\u2019s also flexible enough that it can reconstruct an imaginary monologue that goes on entirely within someone\u2019s head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have various ways of seeing what the brain is up to, from low-resolution electrodes that track waves of activity that ripple across the brain, to implanted electrodes that can follow the activity of individual cells. Combined with a detailed knowledge of which regions of the brain are involved in specific processes, we\u2019ve been able [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163466","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=163466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}