Caltech’s T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Centre has unveiled a study in Nature Human Behaviour that reveals the successful creation of a device that was 79 percent accurate in predicting the word that a subject was looking at.
The study was conducted by implanting microscopic devices into the brains of two volunteer participants. These devices would hopefully read signals from the brain that can convert “text in real time.” The team said of the experiment, “We captured neural activity associated with internal speech – words said within the mind with no associated movement or audio output.”
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The team of researchers implanted tiny devices in specific areas of the brains.
Scientists have made “significant” strides in the field of reading people’s minds. According to New York Post, researchers from California were able to decode the thoughts of participants into words with 79 per cent accuracy. The device has been developed by Caltech’s T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Centre and will help patients with speech and non-verbal disorders. These ‘speech decoders’ act as brain-machine interface and capture brain activity during inner speech and translate it into language. The technology is making news because of its high accuracy.
The study has been published in Nature Human Behaviour.
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