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Scientists Figuring Out How to Watch Brains Form Words

http://gawker.com/5806777/scientists-figuring-out-how-to-watch-brains-form-words

Scientists Figuring Out How to Watch Brains Form Words

A team of scientists at the University of Washington have found the place in the brain that makes the sounds that we use to form words and thoughts. By using some fancy computer programs, they believe they could one day interpret these brain signals well enough to identify actual words and thoughts in our heads. Which is basically mind-reading, isn't it?

"It really goes pretty close to what people used to call mind reading," explains Gerwin Schalk, a researcher based at the New York State Department of Health who's been working with the U of W scientists. The team in Washington had been investigating potential causes of epilepsy when they realized they could pick up the electrical signals that corresponded to the sounds being made by their research subjects, who were hooked up to some electrodes and other devices.

GERWIN SCHALK? Oh yes, that is the guy who sits in the advisory board of mind solutions inc (the subsidiary of mtek)