independent.co.uk: The ability to read someone’s mind and even to visualise their dreams has come a step closer with a study showing that it is possible to predict accurately what someone is seeing by analysing their brain activity with a medical scanner.

Scientists have built a computer that can “decode” the brain activity signals from a scanner and match them to photographs of what a person has seen. In the future, they believe the technology will be able to reconstruct scenes being visualised in a person’s head – whether real or imaginary. [ read more ]