{"id":169764,"date":"2023-08-15T17:26:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T22:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-recreate-classic-pink-floyd-track-from-the-brains-of-listeners"},"modified":"2023-08-15T17:26:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T22:26:35","slug":"scientists-recreate-classic-pink-floyd-track-from-the-brains-of-listeners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-recreate-classic-pink-floyd-track-from-the-brains-of-listeners","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Recreate Classic Pink Floyd Track From The Brains of Listeners"},"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\/-cfJqYtmmqA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re seeing major advancements in tech that can decode brain signals, interpreting neural activity to reveal what\u2019s on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/ai-experiment-decodes-brain-scans-to-reveal-things-people-are-thinking\">someone\u2019s mind<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-new-kind-of-brain-decoder-turns-neural-activity-for-speaking-directly-into-speech\">what they want to say<\/a>, or \u2013 in the case of a new study \u2013 which song they\u2019re listening to.<\/p>\n<p>US researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/multimedia\/994420\">have been able to reconstruct<\/a> a \u201crecognizable version\u201d of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pink_Floyd\">Pink Floyd<\/a> song based on the pulses of activity moving through a specific part of the brain\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Temporal_lobe\">temporal lobe<\/a> in volunteers as they listened to the hit Another Brick in the Wall Part 1.<\/p>\n<p>While the tune in question did go through some initial processing into a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spectrogram\">spectrogram form<\/a> to be more compatible with the brain\u2019s audio processing techniques, the reverse process is impressive in terms of its fidelity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re seeing major advancements in tech that can decode brain signals, interpreting neural activity to reveal what\u2019s on someone\u2019s mind, what they want to say, or \u2013 in the case of a new study \u2013 which song they\u2019re listening to. US researchers have been able to reconstruct a \u201crecognizable version\u201d of a Pink Floyd song [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169764","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}