Is this what thoughts sound like?

I missed this on BBC Radio 4 but thanks to a new member, Barry Perks I am circulating it to all as it seems quite significant.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9691000/9691703.stm

Christopher Newell
Posted 2nd February 2012 at 5:01 PM

Comments

As my colleague at UCL Prof. Sophie Scott said, it's amazing, but it's not turning thoughts into speech. What they've done is to show that there's sufficient information in auditory cortex to (partially) reconstruct the incoming speech signal.

Roger Moore
Commented 3rd February 2012 at 8:03 PM