Dr. R. Quian Quiroga, of the University of Leicester Department of Engineering, is in your head. Actually his machines are just watching what's in your head. In 2005 he showed that specific neurons were fired when subjects were shown different pictures of Halle Berry or just letters from her name, but not for pictures of anyone else. (The test was apparently, and less excitingly, conducted with more mundane images, like that of the Sydney Opera House and other famous landmarks.) Now he's following up on that research and looking at those specific neurons to predict what the test subject is thinking.
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