Reading thoughts is almost a reality
Reading thoughts - one of the most common subjects for a variety of fiction. A hero (or a villain) possessing this opportunity, if we discard the problems of moral and social nature arising from him, usually gets with her the strength, power, money, in general, many useful things in everyday life. And it is not surprising that research in this area traditionally attracts keen public attention and welcomes active support from all sides.
The work of a group of scientists from the Bernstein Center in Berlin is of great interest against this background. Research conducted under the guidance of Dr. John-Dylan Haynes in the laboratory of the Max-Planck-Leipzig Institute is no longer mentioned without the epithet “revolutionary”.
Having occupied the institute's device for magnetic resonance scanning for a long time and collecting 21 student volunteers, Haines, during a series of experiments, looked for the area of ​​the brain that most actively manifests itself in moments when a person is faced with some kind of choice. It turned out that in each experimental it is in the prefrontal part of the cortex.
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Then scientists set out to find in this area small areas responsible for certain intentions on a specific example. The subjects were asked to decide what they would do with two numbers, add or subtract a few seconds before they appeared on the screen. The purpose of the experiment, just in case, was not brought to the people.
As a result, although the success of the experience significantly differed from person to person, on average, it was possible to achieve that in 71% of cases, scientists knew about their intention to perform an action even before it was done. It should be noted that with each new measurement, the prediction accuracy increased slightly, as the software complex adapted to the features of a particular test subject.
The whole theory of such predictions is based on identifying signatures (“prints” on the cerebral cortex) that correspond to a particular choice in different situations. That is, the ways to improve the accuracy of predictions here are approximately the following: to improve the recognizability of signatures, to reduce the required survey time and to accumulate a sufficiently large database of results to level the influence of the features of the functioning of a particular person’s brain.
Naturally, it is still too early to talk about the practical application of such a method in order to predict complex human behavior. For example, to find out whether someone is a threat to airliner passengers for a long time will be possible only by removing his shoes and x-raying his luggage. But there are pluses here: it is too early for the followers of the global conspiracy theory to put pots or foil caps on their heads so that the World Government cannot read their thoughts.
The work of a group of scientists from the Bernstein Center in Berlin is of great interest against this background. Research conducted under the guidance of Dr. John-Dylan Haynes in the laboratory of the Max-Planck-Leipzig Institute is no longer mentioned without the epithet “revolutionary”.
Having occupied the institute's device for magnetic resonance scanning for a long time and collecting 21 student volunteers, Haines, during a series of experiments, looked for the area of ​​the brain that most actively manifests itself in moments when a person is faced with some kind of choice. It turned out that in each experimental it is in the prefrontal part of the cortex.
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Then scientists set out to find in this area small areas responsible for certain intentions on a specific example. The subjects were asked to decide what they would do with two numbers, add or subtract a few seconds before they appeared on the screen. The purpose of the experiment, just in case, was not brought to the people.
As a result, although the success of the experience significantly differed from person to person, on average, it was possible to achieve that in 71% of cases, scientists knew about their intention to perform an action even before it was done. It should be noted that with each new measurement, the prediction accuracy increased slightly, as the software complex adapted to the features of a particular test subject.
The whole theory of such predictions is based on identifying signatures (“prints” on the cerebral cortex) that correspond to a particular choice in different situations. That is, the ways to improve the accuracy of predictions here are approximately the following: to improve the recognizability of signatures, to reduce the required survey time and to accumulate a sufficiently large database of results to level the influence of the features of the functioning of a particular person’s brain.
Naturally, it is still too early to talk about the practical application of such a method in order to predict complex human behavior. For example, to find out whether someone is a threat to airliner passengers for a long time will be possible only by removing his shoes and x-raying his luggage. But there are pluses here: it is too early for the followers of the global conspiracy theory to put pots or foil caps on their heads so that the World Government cannot read their thoughts.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/5114/
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