A few days ago my Biological Psychology professor showed us this video. It is basically an idea that one would probably expect much later in the future or just in SciFi movies. This is ‘visual reconstruction’ and it is probably the most exciting thing I’ve seen so far preparing my journey into Psychology. Basically the idea behind it is that the brain has certain activities going on when you’re watching something, dreaming, etc. Of course if you’re alive there is some brain activity going on, but the point this visual reconstruction makes is to do just what it sounds like. An fMRI device that decodes the activity in your brain and gives a go at giving a visual replication of what you’re seeing. More of course is in the video and one could visit the source link I posted that has the article for this study. It’s exiting stuff! :)

Shinji Nishimoto, An T. Vu, Thomas Naselaris, Yuval Benjamini, Bin Yu, Jack L. Gallant, Reconstructing Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movies, Current Biology, Volume 21, Issue 19, 11 October 2011, Pages 1641-1646, ISSN 0960-9822, 10.1016/j.cub.2011.08.031.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982211009377)