{"id":169811,"date":"2023-08-16T15:24:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T20:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/neuroscientists-re-create-pink-floyd-song-from-listeners-brain-activity"},"modified":"2023-08-16T15:24:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T20:24:04","slug":"neuroscientists-re-create-pink-floyd-song-from-listeners-brain-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/neuroscientists-re-create-pink-floyd-song-from-listeners-brain-activity","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientists Re-create Pink Floyd Song from Listeners\u2019 Brain Activity"},"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>Neuroscientists have worked for decades to decode what people are seeing, hearing or thinking from brain activity alone. In 2012 a team that included the new study\u2019s senior author\u2014cognitive neuroscientist Robert Knight of the University of California, Berkeley\u2014became the first to successfully <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001251\">reconstruct audio recordings<\/a> of words participants heard while wearing implanted electrodes. Others have since used similar techniques to reproduce recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/ai-can-re-create-what-you-see-from-a-brain-scan\/\">viewed or imagined pictures<\/a> from participants\u2019 brain scans, including human faces and landscape photographs. But the recent <em>PLOS Biology<\/em> paper by Knight and his colleagues is the first to suggest that scientists can eavesdrop on the brain to synthesize music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese exciting findings build on previous work to reconstruct plain speech from brain activity,\u201d says Shailee Jain, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, who was not involved in the new study. \u201cNow we\u2019re able to really dig into the brain to unearth the sustenance of sound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To turn brain activity data into musical sound in the study, the researchers trained an artificial intelligence model to decipher data captured from thousands of electrodes that were attached to the participants as they listened to the Pink Floyd song while undergoing surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuroscientists have worked for decades to decode what people are seeing, hearing or thinking from brain activity alone. In 2012 a team that included the new study\u2019s senior author\u2014cognitive neuroscientist Robert Knight of the University of California, Berkeley\u2014became the first to successfully reconstruct audio recordings of words participants heard while wearing implanted electrodes. Others have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169811","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}