• badbytes@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Spent over 15yrs studying brain activity in EEG MRI and MEG. Seems like a far stretch, given our ability to accurately access signals. Brain is complicated, and signals like EEG are very poor reflector of specific signals. Like when you view city street lights at night. Pretty, but what can you decipher.

  • TheWonderfool@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Ignoring the technology itself, I found it interesting that it has a lot less trouble with verbs compared to nouns (tho the article does not give much information about it).

    Would it mean that humans keeps actions very separate (even if similar), while keeping things and concepts more clustered together? Is being precise on what is happening much more important than clearly specifying the subject and object of the action?

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      9 months ago

      I’d wager that humans have much more neural hardware relating to verbs, since they relate to the things you yourself do over longer periods. Let’s say I clean my bathroom, or my kitchen, or something else - the actions I take are very similar, and my head has to keep my body doing the right thing for long stretches of time. It’s much harder to clean the wrong thing than to clean the thing wrong.

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    9 months ago

    This is definitely progress, but we need to keep in mind that the particular language a person speaks can significantly influence how a person’s brain works.

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    9 months ago

    Later on they find the accuracy is about as good as the whole facial recognition fiasco

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    9 months ago

    So is it only useful for people who silently read? Because I don’t see any use case if so, it is not like we think using words, lol.