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Neuroscientists from the University of Washington have

decoded brain signals in real-time and with astounding
accuracy, as revealed in a recent study published in PLOS
Computational Biology. Researchers attached electrodes to the
temporal lobes of seven epilepsy patients for roughly one week -
- the implants were part of a program that aimed to locate the
sources of these patients' seizures, but while the electrodes
were active, the patients also participated in this brain-wave
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study. Researchers were in the neighborhood, after all.

The participants viewed a series of houses and faces that

appeared on a screen for 400 milliseconds at a time, and were
told to look for the upside-down building. An algorithm tracked
the brain waves of their temporal lobes, which deals in sensory
input. By the end of each session, the program was able to
pinpoint with roughly 96 percent accuracy which images the
patients were looking at, in real time. The program knew
whether the patient was seeing a house, a face or a gray screen
within 20 milliseconds of actual perception.

"Clinically, you could think of our result as a proof of concept

toward building a communication mechanism for patients who
are paralyzed or have had a stroke and are completely locked-
in," UW computational neuroscientist Rajesh Rao said.

[Image credit: Kai Miller and Brian Donohue, Kai Miller]

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