{"id":169856,"date":"2023-08-17T09:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T14:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-recreate-pink-floyd-song-by-reading-brain-signals-of-listeners"},"modified":"2023-08-17T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T14:22:22","slug":"scientists-recreate-pink-floyd-song-by-reading-brain-signals-of-listeners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/scientists-recreate-pink-floyd-song-by-reading-brain-signals-of-listeners","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Recreate Pink Floyd Song by Reading Brain Signals of Listeners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-recreate-pink-floyd-song-by-reading-brain-signals-of-listeners3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The researchers also found a spot in the brain\u2019s temporal lobe that reacted when volunteers heard the 16th notes of the song\u2019s guitar groove. They proposed that this particular area might be involved in our perception of rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>The findings offer a first step toward creating more expressive devices to assist people who can\u2019t speak. Over the past few years, scientists have made major <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/420946\/neuroprosthesis-restores-words-man-paralysis?utm_source=ucsf_reddit&utm_medium=reddit&utm_campaign=2021_neuroprosthesisresults\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">breakthroughs<\/a> in extracting words from the electrical signals produced by the brains of people with muscle paralysis when they attempt to speak.<\/p>\n<p>But a significant amount of the information conveyed through speech comes from what linguists call \u201cprosodic\u201d elements, like tone \u2014 \u201cthe things that make us a lively speaker and not a robot,\u201d Dr. Schalk said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The researchers also found a spot in the brain\u2019s temporal lobe that reacted when volunteers heard the 16th notes of the song\u2019s guitar groove. They proposed that this particular area might be involved in our perception of rhythm. The findings offer a first step toward creating more expressive devices to assist people who can\u2019t speak. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169856","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=169856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}