{"id":638,"date":"2011-09-22T13:27:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T20:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.analogrithems.com\/rant\/?p=638"},"modified":"2011-09-22T13:55:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T20:55:27","slug":"tapping-the-brains-thalamus-to-access-the-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.analogrithems.com\/rant\/tapping-the-brains-thalamus-to-access-the-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapping the brain&#8217;s thalamus to access the video."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 2011 and we still don&#8217;t have cyborg implants available.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a sad state because the technology was being worked on a decade ago.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the least know studies was done at UC Berkeley by Garrett Stanley, Fei Li and Yang Dan.\u00c2\u00a0 In their experiment they tapped into the lateral geniculate nucleus of a cat.\u00c2\u00a0 This is inside the thalamus which is the sensory processing unit of the brain.\u00c2\u00a0 They used a linear decoding technique to convert the signals coming from 177 cells into actual images.\u00c2\u00a0 Now the image quality is actually dependant off of how many cells you record from.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a lot like a bit rate concept.\u00c2\u00a0 The more samples you take, the higher the quality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.analogrithems.com\/rant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cat-video.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-654\" title=\"cat-video\" src=\"http:\/\/www.analogrithems.com\/rant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cat-video-300x239.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.analogrithems.com\/rant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cat-video-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/www.analogrithems.com\/rant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cat-video.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the original paper <a href=\"\/rant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/stanley_dan_1999.pdf\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 2011 and we still don&#8217;t have cyborg implants available.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a sad state because the technology was being worked on a decade ago.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the least know studies was done at UC Berkeley by Garrett Stanley, Fei Li and Yang Dan.\u00c2\u00a0 In their experiment they tapped into the lateral geniculate nucleus of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybernetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.analogrithems.com\/rant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.analogrithems.com\/rant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.analogrithems.com\/rant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.analogrithems.com\/rant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.analogrithems.com\/rant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.analogrithems.com\/rant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/www.analogrithems.com\/rant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.analogrithems.com\/rant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.analogrithems.com\/rant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.analogrithems.com\/rant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.analogrithems.com\/rant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}