In a study published on January 28, 2016, the PLOS Computational Biology revealed groundbreaking research regarding the use of implanted electrodes in the human brain that can interpret brain signals at such speeds as to rival that of natural perception. In other words, that can read minds almost at the speed of thought. The team implanted the electrodes into the brains of epilepsy patients at the Seattle Harborview Medical Center. These patients were chosen because usual treatments, like medication, weren’t effective. It was necessary for the researchers to use this procedure temporarily to see if they could find the focal points of the seizures. With their specialized test of showing images of faces and houses to the patients, the researchers were able to determine in a much broader scale, the affected neurons instead of one neuron in traditional diagnostics. This allowed for an algorithm that analyzed the data to determine on its own what the patient was looking at, whether it was a picture of a house, a face, or a blank screen and to their surprise, the algorithm ascertained the right answer at 96% of the time. It did it at an average speed of 20 milliseconds. The article source is vague, but here's the original paper with more information on this: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004660 Also, here's some more info: Mary Lou Jepsen TED talk in 2013: http://www.ted.com/talks/mary_lou_jepsen_could_future_devices_read_images_from_our_brains Her answers to questions about the TED talk: http://blog.ted.com/questions-you-may-have-about-mary-lou-jepsens-ted-talk/
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