{"id":27152,"date":"2016-06-23T21:47:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T04:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/scientists-have-invented-a-mind-reading-machine-that-visualises-your-thoughts"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:55:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:55:01","slug":"scientists-have-invented-a-mind-reading-machine-that-visualises-your-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/scientists-have-invented-a-mind-reading-machine-that-visualises-your-thoughts","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have invented a mind-reading machine that visualises your thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-invented-a-mind-reading-machine-that-visualises-your-thoughts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you think your mind is the only safe place left for all your secrets, think again, because scientists are making real steps towards reading your thoughts and putting them on a screen for everyone to see.<\/p>\n<p>A team from the University of Oregon has built a system that can read people\u2019s thoughts via brain scans, and reconstruct the faces they were visualising in their heads. As you\u2019ll soon see, the results were pretty damn creepy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can take someone\u2019s memory \u2014 which is typically something internal and private \u2014 and we can pull it out from their brains,\u201d one of the team, neuroscientist Brice Kuhl, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/6\/20\/11905500\/scientists-invent-mind-reading-machine\">told Brian Resnick at Vox.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-invented-a-mind-reading-machine-that-can-visualise-your-thoughts-kind-of\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-invented-a-mind-...ts-kind-of<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think your mind is the only safe place left for all your secrets, think again, because scientists are making real steps towards reading your thoughts and putting them on a screen for everyone to see. A team from the University of Oregon has built a system that can read people\u2019s thoughts via brain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67106,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions\/67106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}