I ran across a story the other day about work that's being done at University of California Berkeley that's absolutely futuristic! Scientists there have figured out a way to turn the way our brains interpret visual stimuli into a video. The researchers used an MRI to measure the blood flow through the brain's visual cortex, which explains the mapping of that into brain activity. Test subjects viewed several video clips to get a video result showing how our brain sees things. Right now it's just decoding how we watch a movie. But it's hoped it will lead to "reading" a coma patient's brain and perhaps deciphering how a normal brain processes visual events in everyday life, or perhaps, our dreams. Here's a fascinating video of their work.

 

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