So our minds CAN be read: Magnetic scanner produces these actual images from inside people's brains

• Process reproduces visual images from analysis of blood flow to brain
• Experts believe it could be used in future to analyse dreams and memories 
• Scientists have created a revolutionary brain imaging process which allows them to 'see' moving images inside people's minds. As the test subjects think of a video, the researchers 'see' it on screen.

It's the most astonishing demonstration of 'mind reading' technology ever demonstrated.
The academics from the University of California, Berkeley, managed to decipher brain activity by measuring blood flow through the brain's visual cortex, and used this information to construct images of what they were 'thinking'.


They then converted this information into visual patterns after feeding it through a computer, in a process which scientists say 'opens a window into the movie of our minds'.

As yet, the technology can only recognise and reconstruct movie clips shown to the test subjects before they braved the scanner.
However, the breakthrough paves the way for reproducing the movies inside our heads that no one else sees, such as dreams and memories, according to researchers.
Professor Jack Gallant, a UC Berkeley neuroscientist, said: 'This is a major leap toward reconstructing internal imagery.'

It is hoped the remarkable process could eventually be used to understand the minds of those who cannot communicate verbally, such as stroke victims and coma patients.
Experts warned though that it is likely to be decades before the technology is advanced enough to read peoples' thoughts and intentions.
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