One day we will learn how to decipher entire sentences in real time, says Correia

One day we will learn how to decipher entire sentences in real time, says Correia. Eavesdropping of the inner voice To listen to you, you need to talk quietly. The patterns of brain activity today can tell what your inner voice says. Certain neurons of your brain are activated in response to various properties of sound, for example, frequency. In 2014, a team led by Brian Pasley from the University of California at Berkeley developed an algorithm that can decode the patterns of neural activity and determine what sounds the brain responds to. They asked seven people who had brain implants to treat epilepsy, loudly read out the text from the Gettysburg Address, recording at this time the activity of their brains, and used an algorithm to determine which patterns of brain activity correspond to what words. Then the scientists asked people to read the text quietly to themselves and could, using an algorithm, determine what words people read. Desire and free will Tasty coffee? Just think about it, and the robot will do it for you. This may be one of the consequences of developing a brain implant that can decipher desires. In 2015, Richard Andersen of the California Institute of Technology and his team implanted a pair of tiny electrodes to two people in the posterior parietal cortex.