WHAT are you thinking about? Which memory are you reliving right now? You may think that only you can answer, but by combining brain scans with pattern-detection software, neuroscientists are prying open a window into the human mind. In the last few years, patterns in brain activity have been used to successfully predict what pictures people are looking at, their location in a virtual environment
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