Feb 11, 2009
New Device Reads Minds Pretty Well
Hmmmm…
Canadian researchers say they can glean simple preferences from a person’s brain by shining near-infrared light into the noggin.
The study, reported in the Journal of Neural Engineering, demonstrated the ability to decode a person’s preference for one of two drinks with 80 percent accuracy by measuring the intensity of near-infrared light absorbed in brain tissue, the scientists said in a statement today.
“This is the first system that decodes preference naturally from spontaneous thoughts,” says Sheena Luu, a University of Toronto doctoral student in biomedical engineering who led the work under the supervision of Tom Chau, a specialist in pediatric rehab engineering at the university’s Bloorview Kids Rehab center.
(via Wade)
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What about listening to whether or not they go “mmmmmm!” or “blech!” Would that work? Probably with higher accuracy too.
I’ve read some chi/qi studies that suggested that some of the information content that supposedly exists as chi/qi can be transferred to others in the near-infrared spectrum (more specifically, they lost the effects they were measuring when they introduced a near-infrared filter, but not with any of the other visible and non-visible light filters).
More: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1475930
And remember, always apply the 5th Commandment of the Pentabarf.