University of California, Berkeley
Post-doctoral researcher in the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley
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Brian Pasley
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FROM Brian Pasley
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Researchers Decode What the Brain Is Thinking It's not mind-reading yet, but scientists have demonstrated a way to reconstruct words that people are thinking based on the brain waves generated by their thoughts. Brian Pasley was the lead researcher on a project at UC Berkeley's Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute . The brain activity caused by words was analyzed to determine what surgical patients were thinking. Pasley explains how it works and what might be next.
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