New brain scanner can read thoughts – or at least some of them

Previous brain-computer interfaces (like this one developed in Bochum, Germany) have raised hopes of empowering people bound to wheelchairs. Now, a newly developed brain scanner can, at least partially, read a person’s thoughts. It’s questionable, however, if this technology will soon be of any use in practice. — dpa

WASHINGTON: US researchers have used brain scanners and AI to at least roughly record certain types of thoughts in willing test subjects.

A decoder they developed was able to roughly reproduce what was going through the participants' minds in certain experimental situations with the help of so-called fMRI images, the researchers write in the journal Nature Neuroscience.