Keeping your thoughts to yourself could soon be a luxury of the past.
Scientists have developed a computer program that can tell what a person is thinking. – within reason.
Unravelling the workings of the mind raises the prospect of infallible lie detector tests, while the interpretation of intentions could allow police to arrest criminals before they break the law, as seen in the Tom Cruise film Minority Report.
Who'd have thought it? Researchers were able to identify different thought processes using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Peering in the brain could also make it easier to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and other conditions, the Californian researchers believe.
The Stanford University scientists began by scanning the brains of 14 volunteers as they did one of four tasks: sung songs silently to themselves; recalled the day’s events; counted backwards; or simply relaxed.
The patterns of brain activity associated with each task were then teased out by computer programmes that compared scans from several different people doing the same thing.
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