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November 3, 2008
Scientists Developing Mental Communication
A $4 million award from the Army Research Office has allowed UC Irvine, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Maryland scientists to begin research on imagined speech that could lead to technology that converts brain waves into text.
The research, which is being pursued with the intent of aiding silent communication among soldiers, may also have an application in the commercial sector, with a device that could help the mute communicate.
“We’d like to evolve the ‘push to talk’ button on walkie-talkies into ‘push to think,’ ” said Professor Mike D’Zmura, the project’s principal investigator.
Although the scientists on the project have settled on neuroscientific and signal-processing approaches to the research, the development of a device that is portable and does not require lengthy setup or a laboratory environment to function is likely to be 10 to 15 years away. However, according to D’Zmura, in three or so years it should be possible “to develop software that would let someone communicate using a small working vocabulary — a limited number of words — using [electroencephalographic] brain waves recorded during imagined speech.”
The researchers use a high-density electroencephalography (EEG) net made up of 128 saltwater-soaked sponges. The net’s futuristic appearance has lead to mischaracterization of the project by some media.
Although some call this a mind-reading helmet, D’Zumra wants to clarify that this is not so.
“It is not a helmet and there’s no way it can operate without the complete cooperation of the person wearing it,” D’Zmura said. “A person who wants to communicate this way would also have to train the software to recognize the individual characteristics of his or her own brain waves.”
In recent experiments, the participant wearing the EEG net reads a sentence projected on a computer monitor or hears the sentence over a loudspeaker and then repeats the sentence to himself or herself. The electrical waves produced by the brain during that process are amplified and recorded. The difficulty lies in interpreting the EEG brain waves.
To D’Zmura and his colleagues, the key is the phonemes and their articulation. D’Zmura explained that the average college student knows between 10,000 and 80,000 words made up of around 9,000 syllables, too many words and syllables to be used as basic elements in imagined speech recognition. However, D’Zmura emphasized the preciseness of the process.
“There are 40 phonemes that make up these syllables, and the approach is to distinguish a relatively small number of elements in brain waves,” D’Zmura said.
D’Zmura feels that we will eventually be able to decode brain waves into text in real time. D’Zmura stated that he is not worried about processing power, considering the existence of impressive modern computers.
“We will have at least 10 to 15 times the computing power we have today in 10 to 15 years,” D’Zmura said.
Instead D’Zmura stated that researchers are more concerned with providing scientific grounding for brain-wave analysis. This is why there is a multi-disciplinary team of scientists working on the project that include collegiate faculty with backgrounds in psychology, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science.
While the main reason for the research is military communication, D’Zmura is equally excited about the civilian uses for the project. As a science fiction fan, he does not see many limits on potential applications.
“This technology could be used to issue complex commands in video games using brain waves. It may also show up embedded into baseball caps and allow for silent conversations across a room,” D’Zmura said.
D’Zmura further added that it would probably end up being used for silent communication by students in lecture halls, eliminating even the need for texting.
The project, officially funded by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Multi-Disciplinary University Research Institute program, can be found online at cnslab.ss.uci.edu/muri/index.html.
- 1/29/2023 text to cia & FBI Another day another question that the FBI should answer for them self. Since the start of me, having to hear voices in my head, I tested myself if I in fact have schizophrenia, or if severe foul play is in place. I came to the conclusion that it started with hearing, and I quote and apologize for the shrewd verbiage… You baby blue eyed bitch. This made me believe that someone had done something wrong, but I was absolutely the wrong person, since I have green eyes. Another very embarrassing and harassing statement was so shocking to me, but also let me know that I am in a hostage situation, being victimized and tormented by some severely deranged people. I quote again and apologize for what I have to say: you need to be put in the basement and
- Embalmed and raped! I never had learned the word of embalmed, and had to look up what it stood for these things I can't forget. I have no idea why you let people work with mental communication that are untrustworthy and lowlifes. Alone, the risk of using mental communication and no one has security measures in place, makes this surely a threat to you. The uses of mental communication in specific miss usages are tremendous. It can be used to find out, top-secret information, blackmail, mind wash/manipulation, even voter fraud. My biggest fear is that someone is trying to hide the existence of spying in one's psyche. The wrong people such as perverts and flash paddlers, would call this the gift of God or the Devils handy work. Which brings up another questionable part that I got to experience is this never been researched of making people experiencing schizophrenia voices in their head! This means that someone experimenting would reach roughly 1.1% of the entire population and makes them confused and sick. Yet no one ever has heard that the government openly informed people of that experiment without the helmet and with satellite 📡 ELF frequency transmission (EEG). As roughly 51 million people suffer from hearing voices in their head, and 4.9% committed suicide in 2022. (177000) Why is no one checking if there are misuse occurring or if due to negligence this is causing schizophrenia! Telekinesis is simply not to toy around with! If it is an oversight I have to count on the media to correct it so no additional loses of life occurs.
