Een quote van de researchers:
dozen volunteers were shown line drawings of five different types of buildings and five different kinds of tools while their brain activity was monitored by functional magnetic resonance imaging — or fMRI — which measures changes in blood flow.
Computers then analyzed the fMRI images — which are taken 60 times a minute — checking 20,000 locations on each image for changes in activity. Patterns emerged, and the computers were able to “learn” which patterns of brain activity were associated with specific images and determine not only whether the person was looking at a picture of a building or a tool, but which tool.Even more significant, the patterns established with the fMRI images were used to identify which of the objects was being viewed by a different set of people. This means that people generally think the same way, and a computer program could conceivably be written to read the minds of most people.
In volgende stappen ontdekken we (naar mijn idee) hoe mensen bij elkaar gedachtes kunnen lezen. En kunnen we straks aan het eerste mens meten waar het tweede mens aan denkt. Dat zal wel wat decennia vergen, maar er komt zeker een interessante tijd aan.