2024-03-26: One Step Closer To Inception
building the electronic memory palace
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😳 One Step Closer To Inception
Researchers at Wake Forest built an AI model to read brain memory signals:
Patients participated in a visual memory task (Delayed Match to Sample or DMS): They were shown a sample image, and after a short delay, they were asked to identify the matching image from a set of several images.
Researchers recorded the electrical activity from the patients' hippocampus using surgically implanted electrodes. They captured the neural firing patterns associated with the encoding and recall of specific visual memories.
The recorded neural data was then used to train the Memory Decoding Model AI model. The model learned to associate certain patterns of hippocampal activity with specific image categories from the DMS task (e.g., animals, buildings, tools, etc.).
Once trained, …
