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SparklyKatie On March 07, 2014
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Sheffield, United Kingdom
#1New Post! Feb 01, 2012 @ 23:46:14
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Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words.

The technique reported in PLoS Biology relies on gathering electrical signals directly from patients' brains.

Based on signals from listening patients, a computer model was used to reconstruct the sounds of words that patients were thinking of.

The method may in future help comatose and locked-in patients communicate.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16811042

This could be an amazing breakthrough for patients like the ones mentioned, maybe stroke patients too.

And, I guess, with a few tweaks could end up being used as a 'thought to typing' application.

Though I'm not sure that would work, sometimes my mind wanders and I think of other things while I'm typing.
Wheezy_Knight On February 24, 2012

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Ankh-Morpork, United Kingdom
#2New Post! Feb 01, 2012 @ 23:48:00
That was on the news earlier. The sounds were pretty basic, and hard to understand. But I've high hopes for that tech.
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