{"id":4376,"date":"2023-08-15T21:52:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T02:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2023-08-15T22:10:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T03:10:04","slug":"scientists-recreate-pink-floyd-song-by-reading-brain-signals-of-listeners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/08\/15\/scientists-recreate-pink-floyd-song-by-reading-brain-signals-of-listeners\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Recreate Pink Floyd Song by Reading Brain Signals of Listeners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p id=\"article-summary\">The audio sounds like it\u2019s being played underwater. Still, it\u2019s a first step toward creating more expressive devices to assist people who can\u2019t speak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists have trained a computer to analyze the brain activity of someone listening to music and, based only on those neuronal patterns, recreate the song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.3002176\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a>&nbsp;on Tuesday, produced a recognizable, if muffled version of Pink Floyd\u2019s 1979 song, \u201cAnother Brick in the Wall (Part 1).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Another Brick In The Wall (Part 1)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-cfJqYtmmqA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Before this, researchers had figured out how to use brain activity to reconstruct music with similar features to the song someone was listening to. Now, \u201cyou can actually listen to the brain and restore the music that person heard,\u201d said Gerwin Schalk, a neuroscientist who directs a research lab in Shanghai and collected data for this study. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers also found a spot in the brain\u2019s temporal lobe that reacted when volunteers heard the 16th notes of the song\u2019s guitar groove. They proposed that this particular area might be involved in our perception of rhythm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings offer a first step toward creating more expressive devices to assist people who can\u2019t speak. Over the past few years, scientists have made major&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/420946\/neuroprosthesis-restores-words-man-paralysis?utm_source=ucsf_reddit&amp;utm_medium=reddit&amp;utm_campaign=2021_neuroprosthesisresults\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">breakthroughs<\/a>&nbsp;in extracting words from the electrical signals produced by the brains of people with muscle paralysis when they attempt to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But a significant amount of the information conveyed through speech comes from what linguists call \u201cprosodic\u201d elements, like tone \u2014 \u201cthe things that make us a lively speaker and not a robot,\u201d Dr. Schalk said.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"CbcVseK\">CbcVseK<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The audio sounds like it\u2019s being played underwater. Still, it\u2019s a first step toward creating more expressive devices to assist people who can\u2019t speak. Scientists have trained a computer to analyze the brain activity of someone listening to music and, based only on those neuronal patterns, recreate the song. The research,&nbsp;published&nbsp;on Tuesday, produced a recognizable, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/thewall.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4380,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions\/4380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}