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<\/center><\/p>\nTogether with collegues from London and Tokyo neuroscientist John-Dylan Haynes did an experiment (however up to now only with 21 test persons as it seems), where a person had to choose wether he\/she wanted either to add or to substract two numbers. And even before the test persons saw the numbers and before they started to compute it was possible – by using a MRI<\/a> brain scan – to tell with a 70% chance, what kind of desicion the person was going to make, or in other words: using the MRI the scientists could “read the mind” of the test persons (with a 70% chance). Freely chosen decisions are usually happening in the prefrontal cortex<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/br><\/p>\n \nThe trick by which the invisible is made visible lies in a new method called “multivariate pattern recognition”. A computer The study also reveals fundamental principles about the way the brain stores intentions. “The experiments quote from the Press release of Max Planck Society<\/a>. Together with collegues from London and Tokyo neuroscientist John-Dylan Haynes did an experiment (however up to now only with 21 test persons as it seems), where a person had to choose wether he\/she wanted either to add or to substract two numbers. And even before the test persons saw the numbers and before they started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,21,7,6,17,1,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nis programmed to recognize characteristic activation patterns in the brain that typically occur in association
\nwith specific thoughts. Once this computer has been “trained” it can be used to predict the decisions of
\nsubjects from their brain activity alone. An important technical innovation also lies in combining information
\nacross extended regions of the brain to strongly increase sensitivity.<\/p>\n
\nshow that intentions are not encoded in single neurons but in a whole spatial pattern of brain activity”, says
\nHaynes. They furthermore reveal that different regions of the prefrontal cortex perform different operations.
\nRegions towards the front of the brain store the intention until it is executed, whereas regions further back
\ntake over when subjects become active and start doing the calculation. “Intentions for future actions that are
\nencoded in one part of the brain need to be copied to a different region to be executed”, says Haynes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n->german press release of the bernstein zentrum<\/a>
\n-> article on wired<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"