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.
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Fixed.
I used to see Science Fiction movies about mind reading aliens. The humans who survived the invasion without becoming slaves to the Spaceship did so only by learning to block perception of their thoughts. Some people learned to imagine ongoing static or would draw from a vast collection of annoying earworms. The aliens would only hear ‘Farmer in the Dell’ (sung in Helium Falsetto like Alvin the Chipmunk) running backwards, which would short out their circuits, and make their little heads explode.
I suspect that if my inner monologue were audible I wouldn’t have a friend left in the world.
He really doesn’t want to know what I’m thinking.
Hmm, I don’t hear an inner voice when I read.
“Are you inside my mind right now?”
Lily answers inside his head “Nope.”
“Where was I…
Albuquerque.
Who is the…
Porcupine.
What is my favorite…
hollandaise sauce.” http://www.marketmenot.com/att-new-iphone-mind-reader-commercial/
Subvocalizations turned into sound. Ask Stephen Hawking if he knows anything about this.
It is not mind reading. It doesn’t get to your inner thoughts as the term “inner voice” suggests.
However, I’d like to have this aimed at me. I’d give them a piece of my mind, and they couldn’t do anything about it because I’m not saying it.
She will be a formidable wife for somebody.
Not if my inner screen is on. It scrolls every single piece of music I have ever heard symphonies and opera included. It also has a track of the most atrocious pieces of pop music ever recorded. Apparently what I hear is permanent.
All I have to do is start thinking of just one song.
We could similarly play Barbra Streisand songs in any direction to get the same effect 8o
All I have to do is start thinking of just one song.
A co worker and myself try to get most obnoxious songs stuck in peoples heads.
We managed to get one co-worker with the Brady Bunch song,
We do it for fun and a way to torture each other.
Do you know The Band PlayedOn? That’s my especial torture. I usually can block it with a string of miserably bad ones until my brain cycles into show tunes.
New York New York isn’t too bad. Cats kills me. I’m darn tired of Memories.
Some people just don't need decoders....
How about playing an unending loop of Barbara S. speaking her opinion on all World Matters both big and small? That would send the Aliens all straight back to Pluto with their Spaceship lit up into a blazing fire before they even leave this atmosphere!
“Send in the Clowns”. I hate that song. I knew someone once who would play it when he was depressed, and cry.
co worker and myself got each other with Glenn Miller last week.
I will have to try “the band played on” on him tonight.
Les Miserables gets me every election cycle.
Should start up on Sunday or Monday- especially “ Do you here the people” sing.
Will be out of my mind by next Friday, weird the way my mind works.
One last- I am tone deaf and cannot carry a tune or keep a beat.
But when playing music in my head it is always perfect.
Finally we’ll be able to find out who the real conservatives are here on FR!!
fake southern accent will fool it.
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