New research reflects leap in mind control secret weaponry
California researchers have presented a new paper published in PLoS Biology this week evidencing that they can track brain activity of a person listening to spoken words and use it to reconstruct the words. The report might shed light on what thousands of targeted individuals consistently allege they experience, remote neurophonic mind and behavior control, a type of "no-touch torture."
"The results provide insights into higher order neural speech processing and suggest it may be possible to readout intended speech directly from brain activity," according to the study report, "Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex."
The University of California, Berkeley scientists behind the study "eavesdropped" on words that subjects were actually hearing but it may not be so hard to apply the research to words we imagine.
"There is some evidence that hearing the sound and imagining the sound activate similar areas of the brain," said study co-author Brian N. Pasley, a post-doctoral researcher at the university.
The scientists focused less on potentially nefarious uses of the technology, those of which thousands of targeted individuals allege is being technologically applied against them with similar technology. The researchers instead reported on how the technology could be used to develop treatments for medical conditions that make normal speech impossible.
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The study found that "it may be possible to readout intended speech directly from brain activity" and that this research is "huge for patients who have damage to their speech mechanisms because of a stroke or Lou Gehrig's disease and can't speak," said Robert Knight, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at the university and co-author of the report.
The university researchers stated in a written statement that they "enlisted the help of people undergoing brain surgery to determine the location of intractable seizures so that the area can be removed in a second surgery.
"Neurosurgeons typically cut a hole in the skull and safely place electrodes on the brain surface or cortex – in this case, up to 256 electrodes covering the temporal lobe – to record activity over a period of a week to pinpoint the seizures. For this study, 15 neurosurgical patients volunteered to participate."
The California scientists recorded brain activity as a subject listened to 5-10 minutes of conversation, matched parts of the brain activity images with parts of the sounds, and then reconstructed various words that the patient heard.
Once they learned how a given patient processes information from sound to mental image, the researchers were able to reverse the process and turn a mental image into the sound that created it -- exactly as targeted individuals report to Dupré that they experience.
MedicalXpress reports, "[Pasley] compared the technique to a pianist who knows the sounds of the keys so well that she can look at the keys another pianist is playing in a sound-proof room and 'hear' the music, much as Ludwig van Beethoven was able to 'hear' his compositions despite being deaf."
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