New Device Reads Minds Pretty Well

Hmmmm…

Canadian researchers say they can glean simple preferences from a person’s brain by shining near-infrared light into the noggin.

The study, reported in the Journal of Neural Engineering, demonstrated the ability to decode a person’s preference for one of two drinks with 80 percent accuracy by measuring the intensity of near-infrared light absorbed in brain tissue, the scientists said in a statement today.

“This is the first system that decodes preference naturally from spontaneous thoughts,” says Sheena Luu, a University of Toronto doctoral student in biomedical engineering who led the work under the supervision of Tom Chau, a specialist in pediatric rehab engineering at the university’s Bloorview Kids Rehab center.

Full Story: Live Science

(via Wade)

2 Comments

  1. Oberuntergruntundfuher Snorky

    February 12, 2009 at 1:38 am

    What about listening to whether or not they go “mmmmmm!” or “blech!” Would that work? Probably with higher accuracy too.

  2. I’ve read some chi/qi studies that suggested that some of the information content that supposedly exists as chi/qi can be transferred to others in the near-infrared spectrum (more specifically, they lost the effects they were measuring when they introduced a near-infrared filter, but not with any of the other visible and non-visible light filters).

    More: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1475930

    And remember, always apply the 5th Commandment of the Pentabarf.

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