http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/scientists-youtube-videos-mind/story?id=14573442UC Berkeley Scientists 'See' Movies in the Mind
California scientists have found a way to see through another person's eyes.
Researchers from UC Berkeley were able to reconstruct YouTube videos from viewers' brain activity -- a feat that might one day offer a glimpse into our dreams, memories and even fantasies.
"This is a major leap toward reconstructing internal imagery," said Jack Gallant, professor of psychology and coauthor of a study published today in Current Biology. "We are opening a window into the movies in our minds."
Gallant's coauthors acted as study subjects, watching YouTube videos inside a magnetic resonance imaging machine for several hours at a time. The team then used the brain imaging data to develop a computer model that matched features of the videos -- like colors, shapes and movements -- with patterns of brain activity.
"Once we had this model built, we could read brain activity for that subject and run it backwards through the model to try to uncover what the viewer saw," said Gallant.
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The researchers say the technology could one day be used to broadcast imagery -- the scenes that play out inside our minds independent from vision.
"If you can decode movies people saw, you might be able to decode things in the brain that are movie-like but have no real-world analog, like dreams," Gallant said.
tl;dr - they reconstruct a imagery from your brain to see what you saw.
They say the eyes are the windows to the soul, they also say that the eyes never lie.
Pretty soon, they will be
telling showing everything you see.
No more murder mysteries or confusing crime suspect sketches.
No more wondering "what the **** are you talking about!?" or "WTF were you thinking!?"
No more having to listen as as you fumble around trying to tell a story you can't seem to recall all the details too, or the lies you made up about what happened last night after the bar.
Also no more wondering WTF happened last night after the bar and how did you end up at some strangers house with thong on your head, blood on the wall and a dead hooker in the pool.
Soon they'll be able to just plug you up to a machine and just play back all the events, including those sick thoughts you had that about that certain someone/thing, right there on the screen for you to watch all over again.