Comments on: Scientists reconstruct YouTube videos from brain activity

By: Jldned

Jldned — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:30:00 +0000

there is book out about this very concept…It’s called The Light In The Shadows: Beyond the Flat Line….check it out

By: Jldned

Jldned — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:30:00 +0000

there is book out about this very concept…It’s called The Light In The Shadows: Beyond the Flat Line….check it out

By: Jldned

Jldned — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:30:00 +0000

there is book out about this very concept…It’s called The Light In The Shadows: Beyond the Flat Line….check it out

By: Jldned

Jldned — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:30:00 +0000

there is book out about this very concept…It’s called The Light In The Shadows: Beyond the Flat Line….check it out

By: Uf

Uf — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:00:00 +0000

I’m skeptical. The allegedly reconstructed videos remind me too much of legitimate videos that have been deliberately blurred.

By: Zombie Wolf

Zombie Wolf — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:29:00 +0000

It won’t be long before private thoughts will be a thing of the past.
Meet your interface to your new robot body!

By: Mitchell

Mitchell — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:16:00 +0000

The scientists studying this don’t even know what they are looking at…. They are not reconstructing the videos as seen by the participant, they are seeing the images of what the videos remind the participant of. In other words: They are seeing the action of “:Comprehension” or how the brain translates what it sees into what it can relate to and understand. Just as we don’t actually read each of the letters of the words as we are reading (we read by shape recognition and context) we view a video of something and compare it to images of other things we have seen before for context. Note how the video of Steve Martin has the reconstruction of him not in a uniform with a hat, but grey hair showing and in a T-shirt, as this participant may be more familiar with him, so in order for them to “Understand” it is Steve Martin, their mind’s eye generates and overlays that memory pattern over the actions in the video.

That is what is really being seen here… Still very amazing, but not what the silly scientists think they are seeing.

By: Fahim Hossain

Fahim Hossain — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:47:00 +0000

i would really like a replay of those wild dreams(wink)… XD

Won’t you?

By: Kingo Gondo

Kingo Gondo — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:20:00 +0000

And if my thought-dreams could be seen

They’d probably put my head in a guillotine

But it’s alright, Ma, it’s life, and life only

By: First Name

First Name — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:08:00 +0000

This would be awesome as an artist’s tool (or even for non-artists). Visualize what you want to draw and poof there it is in front of you, no pencil required.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:05:00 +0000

Gobs of evil applications…

By: First Last

First Last — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:42:00 +0000

Cool stuff! If the scientists are able to fine tune the computer model I think it will be a useful application for so many possibilities. I think the scientists need to understand more about the visual areas of the brain in order to reconstruct a clearer image. However measuring the blood flow I’m skeptical can create a clearer image. I’m not too sure if I want to be under the MRI machine for so many hours though.

By: DavidR

DavidR — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:54:00 +0000

I’m not sure this is as amazing as the article makes it seem. Rather than “reading the participants mind”, this is more “reading the signal indirectly”.

Imagine, for a moment, that we could monitor the signals traveling down the optic nerves directly — we could equally, and intuitively, reconstruct the image the user is seeing from that source. No one would think of that as mind reading; why should think of it as mind reading when we look at the signal closer to an end-point?

It’s neat, sure, but undoubtedly not what is implied by the article.

By: Ken Detweiler

Ken Detweiler — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:47:00 +0000

Great. Now I even get to watch my friends dreams on facebook, in addition to knowing what they are doing every minute while they’re a wake :-/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:41:00 +0000

This is absolutely amazing. The way technology like this could help us further understand the human brain. Eventually we may even be able to transmit thoughts, allowing blind people to see.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:16:00 +0000

Yeahhhhh…I’m thinking this is not a good thing

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:15:00 +0000

Whoa, this is mental!!