Friday, March 15, 2013

This Week's Sci-light




Do you ever wish you could read minds? Scientists have figured out a way to tell whom someone is thinking about through brain scans.  Recently, they have figured out how to decode, from the brain, images like recalled memories or a certain number people have just viewed. Nathan Spreng is a Cornell University cognitive neuroscientist that, along with his colleagues, wanted to figure out if it was possible to create an image based off the information in people’s brains. 

Spreng and his team held an experiment in which they told the volunteers the personalities and names of fictitious people. The volunteers were asked to imagine those people and the brain scans showed lots of activity in the medial prefrontal cortex. The findings of the experiment suggest the medial prefrontal cortex is used to decipher and create personalities for people. These findings could help us uncover more secrets to how the brain works. For the full article go to Business Insider.

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