More Advances In Mind Reading

Update

American Scientific just (10/23/2013) published a lengthy article about this subject here.

Trigger

Carnegie Mellon University reports more progress in computers reading human emotions based on neural activation patterns. Read here or here.

Excerpt from the abstract of the above PLOS paper (Emphasis added): “Method[:] actors were asked to self-induce nine emotional states (anger, disgust, envy, fear, happiness, lust, pride, sadness, and shame) while in an fMRI scanner. Using a Gaussian Naïve Bayes pooled variance classifier, we demonstrate the ability to identify specific emotions experienced by an individual at well over chance accuracy …”