{"id":2515,"date":"2013-04-07T17:36:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T17:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2019-09-27T00:23:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T00:23:15","slug":"science-review-neural-decoding-of-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/04\/07\/science-review-neural-decoding-of-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Review: Neural decoding of dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding: 2px 6px 4px; color: #555555; background-color: #eeeeee; border: 2px solid #dddddd; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Editorial notes<\/strong>:<br \/>\n<em>This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/04\/07\/science-review-neural-decoding-of-dreams\/\">first<\/a>\u00a0in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/content-categories\/science\/science-news\/\">series of 30<\/a> Science News, documented mostly in Evernote between April 2013 and October 2014.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Concepts<\/strong>: Neural decoding of dreams. Also: hypnagogic hallucinations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source<\/strong>: A <em><a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/340\/6128\/21\">News and Analysis<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and an (original research)\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/340\/6132\/639\">Report<\/a><\/em>, both in Science\u00a0(April 5, 2013).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>History<\/strong>: A 2005 study developed an algorithm that could read fMRI recordings to determine which one of 8 grid perspectives a subject was looking at.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Experiment setup<\/strong>: Calibrated algorithm with report-coupled-fMRI recordings during stage 1 sleep. Subjects were woken up after sleep onset (stage 1, during which people experience hypnagogic hallucinations, cf. dreaming proper which occurs in REM) and asked to report &#8220;dreams&#8221;. Collected about 200 reports from each of three subjects, and grouped frequently repeated visual elements into 20 broad categories tailored to each subject (eg. ice-pick, key, and plunger, are all implements).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Result<\/strong>: Algorithm could predict &#8220;dream&#8221; content with 60% accuracy.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>An implication<\/strong>:\u00a0Dreams (or at least hypnagogic hallucinations) are not made up upon awakening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial notes: This is the first\u00a0in a\u00a0series of 30 Science News, documented mostly in Evernote between April 2013 and October 2014. Concepts: Neural decoding of dreams. Also: hypnagogic hallucinations. Source: A News and Analysis\u00a0and an (original research)\u00a0Report, both in Science\u00a0(April 5, 2013). History: A 2005 study developed an algorithm that could read fMRI recordings to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,242,16,17],"tags":[],"metadata":[101],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-evernote-entries","category-science","category-science-news","metadata-editor_notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2564,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/10\/10\/science-review-a-jump-start-for-electroceuticals\/","url_meta":{"origin":2515,"position":0},"title":"Science Review: A jump-start for electroceuticals","author":"Pala","date":"October 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Technology: Electroceuticals are made conceivable by\u00a0recent advances, including optogenetics, microsurgery, nanotechnology-based energy production. 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