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Posted on 10/30/2014 10:44:47 AM PDT by PROCON
As you read this, your neurons are firing – that brain activity can now be decoded to reveal the silent words in your head
TALKING to yourself used to be a strictly private pastime. That's no longer the case – researchers have eavesdropped on our internal monologue for the first time. The achievement is a step towards helping people who cannot physically speak communicate with the outside world.
"If you're reading text in a newspaper or a book, you hear a voice in your own head," says Brian Pasley at the University of California, Berkeley. "We're trying to decode the brain activity related to that voice to create a medical prosthesis that can allow someone who is paralysed or locked in to speak."
When you hear someone speak, sound waves activate sensory neurons in your inner ear. These neurons pass information to areas of the brain where different aspects of the sound are extracted and interpreted as words.
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
This is the scientific side of what they call, neuroscience. The other side is in the social science department, under the psychology department. It is basically, re-education. It was the social science part of neuroscience that the Colorado movie shooter was studying.
“Think happy thoughts. Think happy thoughts. Think happy thoughts.”
Tenser said the Tensor, tenser said the Tensor, tension apprehension and dissension have begun!
Now that people might be listening, I am going to have to start using a classier “inner voice”. Maybe a nice Michael Caine or Sean Connery.
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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They really WILL know when you’ve had too much to think.
If they’re using it on me, they aren’t going to like what my inner voice has to say.
*sigh*
Now they wish to eavesdrop directly on the mind....
Well ,when they find it they can let me know where it has been all these years.
dum dum dum
LOL I will use this next week
Wouldn’t work with me. All they’d hear is calliope music, 24 hours a day.
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