{"id":25090,"date":"2016-04-27T13:33:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T20:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/brains-thesaurus-mapped-to-help-decode-inner-thoughts"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:10:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:10:55","slug":"brains-thesaurus-mapped-to-help-decode-inner-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/brains-thesaurus-mapped-to-help-decode-inner-thoughts","title":{"rendered":"Brain\u2019s \u2018thesaurus\u2019 mapped to help decode inner thoughts"},"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\/k61nJkx5aDQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What if a map of the brain could help us decode people\u2019s inner thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have taken a step in that direction by building a \u201csemantic atlas\u201d that shows in vivid colors and multiple dimensions how the <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/human+brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human brain<\/a> organizes language. The atlas identifies brain areas that respond to words that have similar meanings.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, to be published April 28, 2016 in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, are based on a brain imaging study that recorded neural activity while study volunteers listened to stories from the \u201cMoth Radio Hour.\u201d They show that at least one-third of the brain\u2019s cerebral cortex, including areas dedicated to high-level cognition, is involved in language processing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016-04-brain-thesaurus-decode-thoughts.html\">http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016&#45;04-brain-thesaurus-decode-thoughts.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if a map of the brain could help us decode people\u2019s inner thoughts? Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have taken a step in that direction by building a \u201csemantic atlas\u201d that shows in vivid colors and multiple dimensions how the human brain organizes language. The atlas identifies brain areas that respond to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25090","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42293,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25090\/revisions\/42293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}