{"id":28321,"date":"2016-07-26T20:48:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T03:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/can-a-brain-scan-tell-what-youre-thinking-pacific-standard"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:03:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:03:42","slug":"can-a-brain-scan-tell-what-youre-thinking-pacific-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/can-a-brain-scan-tell-what-youre-thinking-pacific-standard","title":{"rendered":"Can a Brain Scan Tell What You\u2019re Thinking? \u2014 Pacific Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-a-brain-scan-tell-what-youre-thinking-pacific-standard.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever really wanted to know what folks truly are thinking about?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em class=\"\">A new experiment advances the idea that brain scans can teach us something about how the human mind works.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\"><em class=\"\">By Nathan Collins<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mind reading stands as one of science fiction\u2019s most enduring improbabilities, alongside light-speed space travel and laser guns. But unlike those latter two, mind reading actually has a whiff of reality: In a <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0956797616654912\" data-href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0956797616654912\" class=\"\">new<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/pss.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2016\/07\/19\/0956797616654912.abstract\" data-href=\"http:\/\/pss.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2016\/07\/19\/0956797616654912.abstract\" class=\"\">demonstration<\/a>, psychologists have shown they<strong class=\"\"> <\/strong>can figure out how far along someone\u2019s brain is in the process of solving a sophisticated math problem\u2014a result that, more than anything else, indicates the promise of new brain-scanning techniques for understanding the human mind.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/\">https:\/\/medium.com\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever really wanted to know what folks truly are thinking about? A new experiment advances the idea that brain scans can teach us something about how the human mind works. By Nathan Collins Mind reading stands as one of science fiction\u2019s most enduring improbabilities, alongside light-speed space travel and laser guns. But unlike those latter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,47,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-neuroscience","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28321","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=28321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61034,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28321\/revisions\/61034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}