Visualizing data from the visual cortex: one step closer to dream recording?

Japanese student walking in a virtual world with the character controled by his brain waves, in Yokohama, in 2007. Pic courtesy AFP/HO/File

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Dream analysis could be set to become a whole lot easier with news that a Japanese research team has created a technology that could eventually display images from people’s dreams on a computer screen. So far the team at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories has only managed to reproduce simple images from the brain, but, “by applying this technology, it may become possible to record and replay subjective images that people perceive like dreams," the private institute said in a statement.

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