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Leap forward in brain-controlled computer cursors: New algorithm greatly improves speed and accuracy

Leap forward in brain-controlled computer cursors: New algorithm greatly improves speed and accuracy | Science News | Scoop.it
Researchers have designed the fastest, most accurate algorithm yet for brain-implantable prosthetic systems that can help disabled people maneuver computer cursors with their thoughts.
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With mind-reading speller, free-for-all conversations that are silent and still

With mind-reading speller, free-for-all conversations that are silent and still | Science News | Scoop.it
Researchers have come up with a device that may enable people who are completely unable to speak or move at all to nevertheless manage unscripted back-and-forth conversation.

Reference:  Current Biology, July 24, 2012 print issue.

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982212005751

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Neuroscience: The mind reader

Neuroscience: The mind reader | Science News | Scoop.it
Adrian Owen has found a way to use brain scans to communicate with people previously written off as unreachable.
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Future Eye-Tracking Systems Will Read Your Mind

Future Eye-Tracking Systems Will Read Your Mind | Science News | Scoop.it
Tech companies are developing applications to peep into the windows of your soul.
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Are We Reading Minds Yet? (Some considerations on recent discoveries in neuroscience)

Unless you have been living in a far off distant planet over the past week or so, chances are that you would have come across some of the headlines doing the rounds  regarding "brain reading break...
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Breakthrough: The first sound recordings based on reading people's minds

Breakthrough: The first sound recordings based on reading people's minds | Science News | Scoop.it
Neuroscientists have developed a way to listen to words you've heard, by translating brain activity directly into sound.
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[VIDEO] How the internet can read your mind

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Scientists are Reading Minds by Measuring Brain Activity

Scientists are Reading Minds by Measuring Brain Activity | Science News | Scoop.it
Researchers have performed a study that allowed them to use brain recordings to predict what the subjects were thinking.
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iBrain, a Device That Can Read Thoughts

iBrain, a Device That Can Read Thoughts | Science News | Scoop.it
NeuroVigil’s iBrain may help people with A.L.S., like Stephen Hawking, communicate using advanced machine-brain interfaces.

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MINDREADING ANIMALS: The Debate over What Animals Know about Other Minds

MINDREADING ANIMALS: The Debate over What Animals Know about Other Minds | Science News | Scoop.it

Does your dog know what you are thinking? Can a chimpanzee understand what another sees? In the three and a half decades since David Premack and Guy Woodruff first asked whether chimpanzees have a “theory of mind,” a considerable empirical and philosophical literature has sprung up around what has come to be called “mind reading” in animals.

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Pilots could soon be monitored with remote 'mind-reading' helmets

Pilots could soon be monitored with remote 'mind-reading' helmets | Science News | Scoop.it
A new miniaturised brain scanner from the University of California San Diego could be used to monitor pilots to ensure they haven't fallen asleep at the controls - and to see if they're panicking.
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Is this really mind-reading?

Is this really mind-reading? | Science News | Scoop.it
Mo Costandi: Translating brain activity into words is clever, but a long way from decoding and reconstructing human consciousness...
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