March 7, 2008
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Neuroscientists at the University of California at Berkeley have been working on a computer system that is connected to a magnetic resonance imaging machine which can look inside the body in real time. This has given the idea that this could be used to see if the brain reacts to what it sees.
They tested the mental activity of subjects looking at various images such as people, animals, landscapes, objects, and more general day to day images. These resulted in a selection of images with coloured variations for different sections of the brain, giving an accurate idea that the brain does react differently to various images.
But if this were to advance there could be all sorts of applications that a fully working system could be used for, some for good and some not good, in fact there are things that could be seriously frightening like deciding who is a terrorist or murderer, clearly the finished applications for this are many years away, but soon they could be inside your head!
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