Re:Scientists extract images directly from brain
by arram on Thursday December 11, 2008 @05:06PM
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It would have been lame if they had gotten the information from the neurons in the retina, but the article says they took the readings from the cerebral visual cortex. I'm pretty sure that it's used both for processing vision and thinking about images.
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Re:Scientists extract images directly from brain
by robg on Thursday December 11, 2008 @05:13PM
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Not thinking about. That far back is a reconstruction of the data compression that happens in the retina. Attention can shift activation there slightly, but there's little abstraction from the retinal image.