Researchers at the UO’s Kuhl lab have learned how to read minds. Or at least kind of.

A story in Britain’s Daily Mail notes that by pinpointing the area of the brain that is responsible for processing faces, a team of researchers that includes UO psychology professor Brice Kuhl is using brain scans to figure out whose face a person is thinking about. Another team worked out how to create images of that face.

Test subjects, when shown the computer-generated face next to the real one, choose the computed image about 10 percent of the time; 50 percent would be a perfect score.

“Recent findings suggest that the contents of memory encoding and retrieval can be decoded from the angular gyrus (AMG), a subregion of posterior lateral parietal cortex,” writes Kuhl and Hongmi Lee, a fourth-year graduate student at NYU and research assistant in the Kuhl lab. “Visual perceived faces were reliably reconstructed from activity patterns.”

To find out more, see “’Zoom in … now enhance’: Google reveals ‘Blade Runner’ photo AI that can sharpen any image” on DailyMail.co.uk.