Scientists can read your mind

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Scientists have for the first time recorded individual brain cells in the act of summoning a spontaneous memory, revealing not only where a remembered experience is registered but also, in part, how the brain is able to recreate it. ... After briefly distracting the patients, the researchers then asked them to think about the clips for a minute and to report “what comes to mind.” The patients remembered almost all of the clips. And when they recalled a specific one — say, a clip of Homer Simpson — the same cells that had been active during the Homer clip reignited. In fact, the cells became active a second or two before people were conscious of the memory, which signaled to researchers the memory to come.

--For the Brain, Remembering Is Like Reliving

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Pretty cool stuff, just thought I'd share.

[Jack]

While this seems to confirm that memory is recovered by the same neurons that were activated when the event was first stored, it's still a ways from anyone being able to read our mind. If the scientists hadn't known what the stored event was, seeing the neurons recall the memory would have only told them that a memory was being recovered but not what that memory was.

Still, I too am fascinated by what we discover about the brain. I wonder how far we'll get using the brain to understand the brain.

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it's still a ways from anyone being able to read our mind.

I was thinking the same thing. I just took the title from the Digg page, that's all

[Jack]

Well, you have to admit Digg, Matt Drudge and a few other sites know how to use headlines to get you to read their stories. Sort of like, you know, they're reading our...OH NOEZ!

[SoylentGreen]

JackI wonder how far we'll get using the brain to understand the brain.

Depends on how many brain cells we devote to homer clips.

the same cells that had been active during the Homer clip reignited.