Submission + - Scientists use brain scans to read minds (itpro.co.uk)
nk497 writes: University of California researchers have figured out how to read people's minds by looking at brain scans. Scientists could predict which of eight tasks a test subject was thinking about by looking at the scans correctly about 80 per cent of the time. But it's not Minority Report quite yet, Russell Poldrack, a professor of psychology at UCLA, said. "Our study suggests that the kinds of things that some people have talked about in terms of mind reading are probably still pretty far off," he said. "If we are only 80 per cent accurate with eight very different thoughts and we want to figure out what you're thinking out of millions of possible thoughts, we're still very far away from achieving that."