"Mind-Reading" Device Comes Closer to Reality as Scientists Decode "Internal Voices," University of California, Berkeley (CAL) Study

2/1/2012 7:28:14 AM

Scientists could soon be able to eavesdrop on the constant, internal monologs that run through people's minds, or hear the imagined speech of those patients who cannot speak, a new study has revealed. The scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have succeeded in decoding electrical activity in a region of the human auditory system called the superior temporal gyrus (STG). By analyzing the pattern of STG activity, they were able to reconstruct words that subjects listened to in normal conversation.

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