Crucial advances in 'brain reading' demonstrated
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
A new study demonstrates several crucial advances in "brain reading" or "brain decoding" using computerized machine learning methods. Researchers classified data taken from people being scanned while watching videos meant to induce nicotine cravings and detected whether people were watching and resisting cravings, indulging in them, or watching videos that were unrelated to smoking or cravings.