{"id":82,"date":"2014-04-17T16:58:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T22:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nationaldreamcenter.com\/wp\/?p=82"},"modified":"2014-04-17T16:58:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T22:58:40","slug":"we-know-what-youre-thinking-scientists-find-a-way-to-read-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaldreamcenter.com\/therapy\/2014\/04\/17\/we-know-what-youre-thinking-scientists-find-a-way-to-read-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"We know what you\u2019re thinking: Scientists find a way to read minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Wow, all this science is coming out concurrently! In essence, the world is catching up with what we already knew\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>We know what you\u2019re thinking: Scientists find a way to read minds<\/h1>\n<div class=\"article-info\">\n<div>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/archive\/maxim-lott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Maxim Lott<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published March 28, 2014<\/p>\n<div>FoxNews.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"social-count\"><a class=\"fbk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2014\/03\/28\/know-what-youre-thinking-scientists-find-way-to-read-minds\/#\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><span class=\"fbk\">0<\/span> <a class=\"twt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2014\/03\/28\/know-what-youre-thinking-scientists-find-way-to-read-minds\/#\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><span class=\"twt\">0<\/span> <a class=\"gplus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2014\/03\/28\/know-what-youre-thinking-scientists-find-way-to-read-minds\/#\" target=\"_blank\">Gplus<\/a><span class=\"gplus\">0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"slides\">\n<div>\n<ul class=\"encapsulate\">\n<li class=\"active\">\n<div class=\"m\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2014\/03\/28\/know-what-youre-thinking-scientists-find-way-to-read-minds\/#\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/global.fncstatic.com\/static\/managed\/img\/Scitech\/876\/493\/Mind%20reading%202b.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"Mind reading 2b.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption trn\">\n<p>Scientists have used brain scanners to detect and reconstruct the faces that people are thinking of, a scientific achievement that could someday lead to a dream-recorder.<span class=\"source\">Alan Cowen<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ctrl\"><a class=\"next\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2014\/03\/28\/know-what-youre-thinking-scientists-find-way-to-read-minds\/#\" target=\"_blank\">Next<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Think mind reading is science fiction?<\/p>\n<p>Think again.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have used brain scanners to detect and reconstruct the faces that people are thinking of, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science?_ob=ArticleListURL&amp;_method=list&amp;_ArticleListID=-546987323&amp;_sort=r&amp;_st=13&amp;view=c&amp;_acct=C000228598&amp;_version=1&amp;_urlVersion=0&amp;_userid=12975512&amp;md5=ad8d380b554a878e38aa0501e6fd7879&amp;searchtype=a\" target=\"_blank\">a study accepted for publication<\/a> this month in the journal <em>NeuroImage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the study, scientists hooked participants up to an fMRI brain scanner \u2013 which determines activity in different parts of the brain by measuring blood flow \u2013 and showed them images of faces. Then, using only the brain scans, the scientists were able to create images of the faces the people were looking at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is mind reading,\u201d said Alan S. Cowen, a graduate student at the University of California Berkeley who co-authored the study with professor Marvin M. Chun from Yale and Brice A. Kuhl from New York University.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>&#8216;You can even imagine, way down the road, a witness to a crime might want to come in and reconstruct a suspect\u2019s face.&#8217;- Alan S. 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