A new magnetic scanners' was developed at Berkeley UniversityA new magnetic scanning has been developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, led by Jack Gallant. The device can, for the first time in history, to transform the thoughts and dreams into images.
The operation of this is quite complex: it is used a magnetic resonance imaging system that records the brain's blood flow that occurs within the visual cortex.
At the end of "registration", the system will automatically connect to YouTube looking at the same time about 18 million videos, taking from them the scenes that most resemble those reflected by the brain. At the end of all this, the clips of the movies that correspond to our brain activity, are merged into a single video clip, thus providing the most precise result.
Professor Jack Gallant - neuroscientist at UC Berkeley and author of the research published in the journal Current Biology - explains the research conducted by his team: "It is a great step towards the reconstruction of the images and we are opening a window on the films that are projected in our minds ".
For the moment the technology is still experimental, but scientists are confident of being able to create some sort of brain-machine interface that allows, for people who are completely paralyzed, to use a computer with the help of the mind.