I know we aren't onto the nervous system in this class yet, but I think that this article is interesting enough that everyone will still like it.
Discussed in this article is an experiment performed to reconstruct visual information from the brain using clips from YouTube. The computer in this experiment actually "learns" to decode the complex information provided by an MRI scan as subjects watch video clips. The computer then "watches" videos from YouTube and picks out ones that create signals similar to those brought about by the experimental clips. It then overlays all these similar videos on top of each other to create a composite.
One might say that this method of mashing together YouTube videos is a silly way of reconstructing visual moving images, but it's the best that can be done until a computer can encode the information from the brain directly into a video.
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