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Pink Floyd Song Reconstructed From Brain Scans (journals.plos.org)

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Researchers who recorded direct neural signals from people listening to “Another Brick in the Wall” have reproduced a recognizable version of the song from the neural data.

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[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sure this will never be abused to brutalize the working class

[–] ChemicalPilgrim@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Warning: attention drift detected please refocus on work. Six seconds deducted from shift total.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Hey, Pink Floyd aren't that bad.

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Were the test subjects comfortably numb during the test?

[–] Thavron@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

One would hope.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's the WAV downloads of the original audio, the version sampled from linear data, and the version sampled with nonlinear data. There are more of these in the OP which use less electrodes on less patients, you can find them quickly by using Control+F.

Original song waveform transformed into a magnitude-only auditory spectrogram, then transformed back into a waveform using an iterative phase-estimation algorithm.

Reconstructed song excerpt using linear models fed with all 347 significant electrodes from all 29 patients.

Reconstructed song excerpt using nonlinear models fed with all 347 significant electrodes from all 29 patients.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Black Mirror “Ashley Too” episode anyone?