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What's in your mind?

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Previous 'mind-reading' studies have differentiated patterns of brain activity without understanding the underlying processes. A new study in Nature uses a model of neural encoding mechanisms to identify brain activity patterns.

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Figure 1: Kay et al.6 created a neural model that was based on visual receptive field properties to identify which image the subject was viewing from a large set of natural images.

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  1. The author is in the Psychology Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA. wandell@stanford.edu,

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