TOKYO - Researchers in Japan has revealed the contents of one's dreams after using the scanner (scan) to map brain neural activity or related to the human brain.
Reported by the Telegraph, Friday (05/04/2013), researchers were able to identify the category of what is seen in the dream with 60 percent accuracy. Expected this technique could help to explain the world of dreams experienced by a person.
In addition, researchers also hope this technique could have broad implications for psychological therapy and research on a person's sleep. Robert Stickgold, a neuroscientist and dream expert from Harvard Medical School in Boston describes the study as "something amazing in detail and success".
He told the journal Science, this is probably the first real demonstration of the basic content of the brain related to one's dreams. At a eksprerimen conducted in Japan, scientists involved three volunteers who slept in a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine (fMRI).
Yuki scientists Kamitani of ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, start monitoring the brain activity of volunteers who are light sleepers for signs of dream hallucinations. When started dreaming, participants awakened and asked to describe their visual experiences.
Recording of fMRI brain scans examined for patterns of activity that coincides with the category of dreams. Volunteers are also asked to see the photos from the Internet in accordance with their dreams, while their brain activity was monitored.
The data used to train a computer program to recognize brain activity with different types. "Our findings provide evidence that specific dream content of visual experience during sleep can be read from the pattern of activity of the visual cortex with stimulus representation," said the scientist
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