By Helen Thomson -
As you read this, your neurons are firing – that brain activity can now be decoded to reveal the silent words in your head
TALKING to yourself used to be a strictly private pastime. That's no longer the case – researchers have eavesdropped on our internal monologue for the first time. The achievement is a step towards helping people who cannot physically speak communicate with the outside world.
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Ref: Decoding spectrotemporal features of overt and covert speech from the human cortex
Your thoughts can be transcribed and decoded - Mind reading still years out
