Scientists decode brain waves to eavesdrop on what we hearBy Robert Sanders, Media Relations | January 31, 2012 BERKELEY  Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke or paralysis, according to University of California, Berkeley, researchers.
[quicktime]http://www.berkeley.edu/news2/2012/01/recon_UCB_012112.MOV[/quicktime]Frequency spectrograms of the actual spoken words (top) and the sounds as reconstructed by two separate models based solely on recorded temporal lobe activity in a volunteer subject. The words – Waldo, structure, doubt and property – are more or less recognizable, even though the model had never encountered these specific words before. Credit: Brian Pasley, UC Berkeley
PLoS Biology Podcast Episode 2: Decoding speech from the human brain (interview with Brian Pasley and Robert Knight) by Public Library of Science
Reconstructing speech from human auditory cortex (PLoS Biology)
Scientists use brain imaging to reveal the movies in our mind (9/22/11 press release with video)
Robert Knight’s UC Berkeley Web site
Eddie Chang’s Web site, UCSF
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