LogInResearchers have decoded the line "All in all it was just a brick in the wall" from brain signals.
Image Credit: Pink Floyd
Well, it appears that humanity has taken a significant step forward in the realm of actual mind reading. A group of neuroscientists from the University of California, Berkeley, has recently released a study detailing how they managed to reconstruct a song by decoding the brain signals of someone listening to it.
By analyzing data from intracranial electroencephalography recordings of 29 patients who were listening to Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1," and utilizing a method previously employed in speech analysis, the researchers successfully reconstructed the song's rhythm. They were also able to identify understandable lines from the song, albeit with slight distortions.
The researchers assert that their findings demonstrate the potential of utilizing predictive modeling with limited datasets from individual patients, opening the door to incorporating musical components into brain-computer interface applications.
"We successfully reconstructed a recognizable song from direct neural recordings and quantified the impact of different factors on decoding accuracy," comments the team. "Combining encoding and decoding analyses, we found a right-hemisphere dominance for music perception with a primary role of the superior temporal gyrus (STG), evidenced a new STG subregion tuned to musical rhythm, and defined an anterior-posterior STG organization exhibiting sustained and onset responses to musical elements."
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