A new computer programme instantly read your mind
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 02-02-2016
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By training an algorithm on the subjects' responses to the (known) first two-thirds of the images, the researchers could examine the brain signals representing the final third of the images, whose labels were unknown to them, and predict with 96 per cent accuracy whether and when (within 20 milliseconds) the subjects were seeing a house, a face or a grey screen.
The scientists' technique is a stepping stone for brain mapping, in that it could be used to identify in real time which locations of the brain are sensitive to types of information, Rao said.