Showing posts with label University of California. Show all posts
Showing posts with label University of California. Show all posts

Saturday, 20 September 2014

Humans subconsciously ‘mimic accents’

Psychologists claim that we subconsciously mimic the accent of someone we are speaking to.


The human brain has a habbit of imitating the speech patterns of other people without even meaning to in an effort to help bond and “empathise” with that person.


Scientists from the University of California, Riverside, found the subconscious copying of an accent comes from an inbuilt urge of the brain to “empathise and affiliate”. Their findings, reported in the journal Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, concluded this happens when we cannot hear what is being said but are simply lip-reading.






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Tuesday, 19 August 2014

Humans subconsciously ‘mimic accents’

Psychologists claim that we subconsciously mimic the accent of someone we are speaking to.


The human brain has a habbit of imitating the speech patterns of other people without even meaning to in an effort to help bond and “empathise” with that person.


Scientists from the University of California, Riverside, found the subconscious copying of an accent comes from an inbuilt urge of the brain to “empathise and affiliate”. Their findings, reported in the journal Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, concluded this happens when we cannot hear what is being said but are simply lip-reading.






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Monday, 2 June 2014

Mind Reading Brain Scanner Technology

So our minds CAN be read: Magnetic scanner produces these actual images from inside people’s brains



  • Process reproduces visual images from analysis of blood flow to brain

  • Experts believe it could be used in future to analyse dreams and memories


By Chris Parsons and Rob Waugh


article 2040599 0E0A118B00000578 910 306x306 300x300 Mind Reading Brain Scanner Technology Scientists have created a revolutionary brain imaging process which allows them to ‘see’ moving images inside people’s minds. As the test subjects think of a video, the researchers ‘see’ it on screen.


It’s the most astonishing demonstration of ‘mind reading’ technology ever demonstrated.


The academics from the University of California, Berkeley, managed to decipher brain activity by measuring blood flow through the brain’s visual cortex, and used this information to construct images of what they were ‘thinking’.



They then converted this information into visual patterns after feeding it through a computer, in a process which scientists say ‘opens a window into the movie of our minds’.


As yet, the technology can only recognise and reconstruct movie clips shown to the test subjects before they braved the scanner.

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