Sep 27 2009Scientists To Pull Pictures From Your Brain
I know for a fact the government can pull images from a person's brain because they've been probing around in my dome for years, messing with the delicate ecosystem up there. And one time when I was being interrogated I saw a picture of a dinosaur in an agent's file folder, SO I KNOW. Anyway, apparently they've decided to make the technology public knowledge.
Having modeled how images are represented in the brain, the researchers translated recorded patterns of neural activity into pictures of what test subjects had seen.
To construct their model, the researchers used an fMRI machine, which measures blood flow through the brain, to track neural activity in three people as they looked at pictures of everyday settings and objects.As in the earlier study, they looked at parts of the brain linked to the shape of objects. Unlike before, they looked at regions whose activity correlates with general classifications, such as "buildings" or "small groups of people."
Once the model was calibrated, the test subjects looked at another set of pictures. After interpreting the resulting neural patterns, the researchers' program plucked corresponding pictures from a database of 6 million images.
Soon, everyone will have a photo printer in the back of their head to print off worthwhile images they've seen. Me? I already have one. Don't believe me -- check this stack of pictures. What? Don't act like you've never seen a dinosaur penis before!
Brain Scans Reveal What You've Seen [wired]
Thanks to Anit, who can read minds like comic books: with incredible difficulty.
Reader Comments
1. Daisy - September 27, 2009 7:17 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wroong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max sent Igor to get a brain for the human he was building. Igor dropped the brain Max specified so he took a different one. The one marked Abby Normal
2. englishman - September 27, 2009 7:28 PM
I can think of much better uses than making grapes and olive pictures.....
3. Tobias - September 27, 2009 7:54 PM
what about if the dude was whacked off his head on drugs would we see what he sees?
4. schmoogleman - September 27, 2009 8:36 PM
@3
I have a feeling it doesnt actually show what they see, it just can sort of tell what theyre thinking about, so if they were on drugs their brain would probably not be working quite right so the machine would have no idea what the crap was happening
5. JRock - September 27, 2009 8:48 PM
@4
Depending on the drug, of course.
6. Orannis - September 27, 2009 9:10 PM
yeah, that's not creepy as hell at all....
7. Ham Bone - September 27, 2009 9:36 PM
i took this test and it is totally bull ... the computer kept saying i was thinking about naked men ... and that wasnt what i was thinking of ... im not gay or am i?
8. Hmonglord - September 27, 2009 9:45 PM
Yeah, I would love to see what people who are tripping out on LSD would see.
9. Free ipod - September 27, 2009 10:57 PM
click my name
10. Jaycob - September 27, 2009 11:17 PM
I blame the Jewbots
11. Daisy the Cretin - September 28, 2009 12:41 AM
Babble drone carp whine moan grumble.
Gabble yak mutter carp snivel.
Gossip bellyache grizzle gripe..
12. MØÐNAR - September 28, 2009 2:59 AM
Dude... do you know what this means? VIDEOS OF OUR GOD DAMN DREAMS!!! EPIC!!
13. scrotumbagmonkeyflicker - September 28, 2009 4:40 AM
April 1st already?
14. Gar - September 28, 2009 5:22 AM
Heh, these ain't the kind of pictures they could pull outta my brains ...
15. Wrathmanifested - September 28, 2009 6:12 AM
Damn that is scary wooooo hoooo better behave now hahaha.
16. Mr. cow - September 28, 2009 7:25 AM
Moo
17. Geekolojew - September 28, 2009 7:36 AM
Must See!!!
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18. Jaded Icon - September 28, 2009 8:15 AM
@ 10
Robots have religion? At least they're not Scientologybots.
19. atheistgirl - September 28, 2009 9:43 AM
YEAH! The thought police are coming! I'm going to gaol.
20. Cinema Obsessed - September 28, 2009 10:29 AM
When will they make the camera that you use by blinking your eyes? Then a polaroid comes out your butt cheeks or something. It could work.
21. - Neal Stephenson, - September 28, 2009 10:32 AM
that wold be hudge load of data
http://izobrazba.naspletu.com/learn.html
22. oldy mcold - September 28, 2009 11:18 AM
OLD!!!!!111
23. That uncle who did that bad thing we don't speak about - September 28, 2009 12:14 PM
That's bullshit! Everyone knows that all humans think about 99% of the time is having someone tread on their back whilst wearing stillettos and a train driver hat.
24. chad - September 28, 2009 1:13 PM
Think about the implications this would have for the porn industry.
My god, your best friend breaks up with his girlfriend. She cheated on him. He's pissed. BAM. Her naked body is all over the net.
Maybe at one time he pissed in her.
How messed up would that be.
25. dang - September 28, 2009 1:33 PM
If the pictures where reliable at all, they could be used for attempted murder and rape cases. That'd be pretty helpful
26. Christopher Hubbell - September 28, 2009 1:47 PM
For all of you who believed this, I just have to say this.
People (Americans, specifically) are are an ignorant, uninformed pool of gullibility. Just because it's on the internet, doesn't make it true. For god's sake, sheep, grow a brain.
Peace.
27. Nick - September 28, 2009 2:34 PM
why don't they just plug in a wire in the lateral genicular nucleus nerve?
28. HxCereal - September 28, 2009 2:53 PM
@ 14...whereeee did that come from?
@ 28 good for you, keep thinking that. don't you know big brother is watching you, fool? get with the program. word.
This is pretty wild. It could go horribly horribly wrong, of course, but just think of the kind of pictures could be pulled from memory? woah o.O
I'm down with 13 totally. I'd want my dreams put on a dvd for me to review later!
29. Jaded Icon - September 29, 2009 6:46 AM
@ 28
Huh...."Americans specifically are an ignorant, uninformed pool of gullibility". Well, I guess that would be the case if you judged the whole by a few...but really, who besides a moron would do that?
BTW: You picked the wrong blog to voice your dissent. Suspension of disbelief is what drives Geekologie. Stop talking and read it once.
30. notgoingtowritemynamecauseimcoollikethat - September 29, 2009 8:52 PM
@13: I was thinking about the same thing!!! I have awesome dreams!!
31. Yeags - September 30, 2009 3:20 AM
I guess this is what you would call a "photographic memory."
Thanks folks! I'll be here all night! Ahhh, I crack myself up. Not really.
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