Back in the early yo dawg/me gusta era of internet memes, around 2010, some larrikin made an image ridiculing how-to-draw books. “How to draw an owl,” it read. “First, draw some circles. Next, draw the rest of the [expletive] owl.” It beautifully skewered the giant leaps some of these how-to books would take between steps, […]
Continue ReadingHow brain scans can read your mind to reconstruct the face you’re thinking of
It’s frustrating to have a clear mental image of something but not be able to exactly get it across in words or a drawing. Now, a team of neuroscientists from the University of Toronto Scarborough has developed a way to digitally recreate exactly the image someone is thinking about, by scanning their brain. So-called mind-reading technology is […]
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