Tuesday, March 16, 2010

reading minds

A story for AOL NEWS:

Mind-reading devices are still a thing of science fiction, but scientists can now peer into the brain and pinpoint complex memories.

In the latest issue of the journal Current Biology, researchers at University College London report using a brain scanner to effectively figure out what different people were thinking. "Given a set of memories, we could tell just from the patterns of activity in the hippocampus which memory a person was recalling," says study co-author Eleanor Maguire.


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