7 August 2005
Mind-reading machines
In a combined study, researchers in Britain and the U.S. have been able to determine the image that subjects are looking at through a brain scan when different images were displayed to the subjects' left and right eyes. As another part of the study, subjects watched a clip of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". The researchers said, "We were able to tell one part of a scene from another, and we could tell one type of sound from another." How much longer will it be before these machines are used in lie detector tests or perhaps to detect a lack of loyalty to a cause?
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The MRI machines are pretty bulky, so (to date!) you couldn't do this kind of thing secretly. fMRI is done by taking a full, high res MRI, and then taking fast MRIs at lower res. But the magnet, etc, is the same.
What's weirding me out more is the Slashdot etc. story about a pad giving electrical current to your vestibular (sense of balance)system, which can make you feel like you're falling. The woman wearing it looked like a string puppet.
That's the first I've heard of that one.
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