{"id":76253,"date":"2018-02-22T20:02:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T04:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/do-you-see-what-i-see-researchers-harness-brain-waves-to-reconstruct-images-of-what-we-perceive"},"modified":"2018-02-25T11:06:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T19:06:58","slug":"do-you-see-what-i-see-researchers-harness-brain-waves-to-reconstruct-images-of-what-we-perceive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/do-you-see-what-i-see-researchers-harness-brain-waves-to-reconstruct-images-of-what-we-perceive","title":{"rendered":"Do you see what I see? Researchers harness brain waves to reconstruct images of what we perceive"},"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\/9uYvim8OEzM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new technique developed by neuroscientists at the University of Toronto Scarborough can, for the first time, reconstruct images of what people perceive based on their brain activity gathered by EEG.<\/p>\n<p>The technique developed by Dan Nemrodov, a postdoctoral fellow in Assistant Professor Adrian Nestor\u2019s lab at U of T Scarborough, is able to digitally reconstruct images seen by test subjects based on electroencephalography (EEG) data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we see something, our <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> creates a mental percept, which is essentially a mental impression of that thing. We were able to capture this percept using EEG to get a direct illustration of what\u2019s happening in the brain during this process,\u201d says Nemrodov.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018-02-harness-brain-reconstruct-images.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018&#45;02-harness-brain-reconstruct-images.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new technique developed by neuroscientists at the University of Toronto Scarborough can, for the first time, reconstruct images of what people perceive based on their brain activity gathered by EEG. The technique developed by Dan Nemrodov, a postdoctoral fellow in Assistant Professor Adrian Nestor\u2019s lab at U of T Scarborough, is able to digitally [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76253","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\/444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76348,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76253\/revisions\/76348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}