The Dream Invading Science Of Inception
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Dream Invading Science Of Inception
There's a scene from the new film Inception in which the main character, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, has entered another character's mind through a dream and tells him, "I know how to find secrets from your mind--I know all the tricks!" It's easy for DiCaprio's character to make this claim. After all, he's in a big-budget Hollywood movie. He can do anything he wants, given the right special effects. But can real-life technologies perform these kinds of mind-reading "tricks" too? While we can't use a device to recreate elaborate and shared dreamscapes yet, it may surprise you just how much existing technologies that read dreams and minds can do. One of the researchers on the forefront of such technology is Jack Gallant, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley. Gallant has spent the past 10 years heading a neuroscience and psychology lab at Berkeley whose mandate is to tap into the mind to see what it sees. Gallant does this by showing people images and movies while taking a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan of their brains. He uses brain-pattern analysis and computer algorithms to analyze the fMRI scans and build a model of the subject's visual system. Using the model, Gallant can then have his subject watch a completely new movie and reproduce the images the subject has seen with very good accuracy. In other words, he can take the pictures right out of our heads.
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There's a scene from the new film Inception in which the main character, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, has entered another character's mind through a dream and tells him, "I know how to find secrets from your mind--I know all the tricks!" It's easy for DiCaprio's character to make this claim. After all, he's in a big-budget Hollywood movie. He can do anything he wants, given the right special effects. But can real-life technologies perform these kinds of mind-reading "tricks" too? While we can't use a device to recreate elaborate and shared dreamscapes yet, it may surprise you just how much existing technologies that read dreams and minds can do. One of the researchers on the forefront of such technology is Jack Gallant, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley. Gallant has spent the past 10 years heading a neuroscience and psychology lab at Berkeley whose mandate is to tap into the mind to see what it sees. Gallant does this by showing people images and movies while taking a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan of their brains. He uses brain-pattern analysis and computer algorithms to analyze the fMRI scans and build a model of the subject's visual system. Using the model, Gallant can then have his subject watch a completely new movie and reproduce the images the subject has seen with very good accuracy. In other words, he can take the pictures right out of our heads.
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