{"id":165446,"date":"2023-06-09T11:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T16:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-brain-decoder-can-read-minds-but-how-good-is-it"},"modified":"2023-06-09T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T16:22:25","slug":"a-brain-decoder-can-read-minds-but-how-good-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/a-brain-decoder-can-read-minds-but-how-good-is-it","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018brain decoder\u2019 can read minds. But how good is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-brain-decoder-can-read-minds-but-how-good-is-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have created a \u201csemantic brain decoder\u201d to guess someone\u2019s thoughts based on brain activity.<\/p>\n<p>During tests, it captured the gist of what someone was thinking, rather than a literal translation. And if participants resisted, it produced gibberish.<\/p>\n<p>The decoder, written about in the journal <i>Nature Neuroscience<\/i> in May, is novel, said Edmund Lalor, an associate professor of neuroscience at the University of Rochester. But its threat to privacy is minimal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have created a \u201csemantic brain decoder\u201d to guess someone\u2019s thoughts based on brain activity. During tests, it captured the gist of what someone was thinking, rather than a literal translation. And if participants resisted, it produced gibberish. The decoder, written about in the journal Nature Neuroscience in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165446","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}