If You Could Read My Mind . . .Maybe Someday It Could Happen
What if you could read your partner's mind? Some of us might not like what we find there, but now a new study is saying that "mapping" the brain might help us do it. What mapping does is to decode the brain, according to researchers as reported at newswise.com. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have built a "semantic atlas" that shows in vivid colors and multiple dimensions how the human brain organizes language. The atlas identifies brain areas that respond to words that have similar meanings. In a brain imaging study, neural activity was recorded while volunteers listened to stories from the "Moth Radio Hour." The results show that at least one-third of the brain's cerebral cortex, including areas dedicated to high-level cognition, is involved in language processing. One study found that different people share similar language maps: "The similarity in semantic topography across different subjects is re...