[NetBehaviour] Scientists extract images directly from brain.

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Scientists extract images directly from brain.

Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories 
have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the 
images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it 
was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further 
development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other 
people’s dreams while they sleep.

The scientists were able to reconstruct various images viewed by a 
person by analyzing changes in their cerebral blood flow. Using a 
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine, the researchers 
first mapped the blood flow changes that occurred in the cerebral visual 
cortex as subjects viewed various images held in front of their eyes. 
Subjects were shown 400 random 10 x 10 pixel black-and-white images for 
a period of 12 seconds each. While the fMRI machine monitored the 
changes in brain activity, a computer crunched the data and learned to 
associate the various changes in brain activity with the different image 
designs.

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