'Mind-Reading' Brain-Scan Software Showcased in NY
From: Associated Press - 04/08/1010
By: Samantha Gross

Intel is developing software that uses brain scans to determine what items
people are thinking about. The software analyzes magnetic resonance imaging
scans to determine which parts of the brain are being activated as a person
thinks. During testing, the software was 90 percent accurate in guessing
which of two words a person was thinking about, says Intel's Dean Pomerleau.
The technology could help disabled people communicate or, eventually, lead to
mind-controlled devices. "The vision is being able to interface to
information, to your devices, and to other people without having an
intermediary device," Pomerleau says. The system works by initially scanning
the brain while a person is thinking of several nouns. When test subjects are
then asked to pick one of two new terms, the software uses the earlier
results as a baseline to determine what the subject is thinking. 

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Links:
Dean Pomerleau
http://www.ri.cmu.edu/person.html?person_id=241
http://www.pittsburgh.intel-research.net/people/pomerleau/

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