“It is now possible to read someone’s mind by remotely measuring their brain activity with brain MRI scans, researchers have shown. The technique can even extract information from subjects that they are not aware of themselves.” (From Newscientist.com)
In a breakthrough research study, volunteers were shown one of several test objects, and based on MRI brain scanning data alone, researchers were able to tell what object the volunteers had seen. The research, conducted by Frank Tong out of Princeton University and Yukiyasu Kamitani out of ATR Computational Neurosciences Laboratories in Kyoto Japan, was published in Nature Neuroscience in 2005.
More recently, MRI brain scans are also proving themselves to be superior to the polygraph when it comes to lie detection. Two MRI lie detection companies are getting ready to launch:
- No Lie MRI, Inc in San Diego, California
- Cephos Corp.in Massachusetts
Furthermore, there is wide speculation that the government is already using this technology as an interrogation method.
The best information of the brain we can get today is taken with MRI machines featuring a large magnet combined with one radio-frequency detector.
The next generation of MRI machines, however, will use arrays of anywhere from 8 to 256 radio-frequency detectors, with even more powerful magnets.
It’s not hard to see how the era of mind reading made easy is just around the corner.
What would you want to ask your significant other? Your teenage kids? Your friends?
Tags: Cephos, fMRI, lie-detection, min-reading, MRI, No-Lie-MRI, polygraph
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