Your Dream Images Can Be!
What you see above are captured images from someones brain. That’s right.
Scientists at Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto showed a group of test subjects a series of still images to get a basic reading of their brain activity. They were then shown each of the letters that spell the word ‘neuron’. By using a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging device (or fMRI) to monitor changes in blood flow in the visual cortex, they were able to view the images from the brain on a computer display.
The team has said that the could imagine a point in the future where one would actually be able to record their dreams. Using the technique to monitor various disorders could lead to new treatments.
The full results are going to published in an upcoming issue of the scientific journal Neuron, and I can’t help but think that if the images themselves are printed on the cover, it could be the first example of “brain cover art”
[from Chunichi (google translation)]
would it be shallow to criticize the typeface?