{"id":98010,"date":"2019-10-30T22:43:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T05:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/neural-network-reconstructs-human-thoughts-from-brain-waves-in-real-time"},"modified":"2019-10-30T22:43:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T05:43:11","slug":"neural-network-reconstructs-human-thoughts-from-brain-waves-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/neural-network-reconstructs-human-thoughts-from-brain-waves-in-real-time","title":{"rendered":"Neural network reconstructs human thoughts from brain waves in real time"},"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\/nf-P3b2AnZw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Russian corporation Neurobotics and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have found a way to visualize a person\u2019s brain activity as actual images mimicking what they observe in real time. This will enable new post-stroke rehabilitation devices controlled by brain signals. The team published its research as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/787101v2.full\" rel=\"nofollow\">preprint<\/a> on bioRxiv and posted a video online showing their \u201cmind-reading\u201d system at work.<\/p>\n<p>To develop devices controlled by the brain and methods for cognitive disorder treatment and post-stroke rehabilitation, neurobiologists need to understand how the brain encodes information. A key aspect of this is studying the brain activity of people perceiving visual information, for example, while watching a video.<\/p>\n<p>The existing solutions for extracting observed images from brain signals either use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/ncomms15037.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">functional MRI<\/a> or analyze the signals picked up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S105381190400299X?via percent3Dihub\" rel=\"nofollow\">via implants<\/a> directly from neurons. Both methods have fairly limited applications in clinical practice and everyday life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Russian corporation Neurobotics and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have found a way to visualize a person\u2019s brain activity as actual images mimicking what they observe in real time. This will enable new post-stroke rehabilitation devices controlled by brain signals. The team published its research as a preprint on bioRxiv and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98010","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}