(Source: University of California - Berkeley) Landing a spacecraft on a hurtling comet or cloning genes of extinct animals. Science and engineering have a way of turning what seems like fantasy into solid reality. Now add the prospect of someone reading your mind. They're not there yet, but in 2011, Berkeley scientists startled colleagues and triggered imaginations by divining the rough outlines of what experimental subjects were seeing in movie clips. They accomplished this using a type of MRI to detect indirectly neuron firing at precise locations in the brain's visual processing area. The achievement coupled basic science, intense computation and complex statistical analysis. Matching...
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