Over the holidays I watched “A Christmas Story” for the gazillionth time. One of the scenes in the movie is Ralphie getting his secret decoder ring to unlock the mysteries of the universe. His ring ...

Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have created a "semantic brain decoder" to guess someone's thoughts based on brain activity. During tests, it captured the gist of what someone was ...

It's 11:13pm on Christmas Eve and I'm on my second viewing of the classic holiday film A Christmas Story. You probably know that it's about Ralphie Parker and his obsession with getting a Red Ryder BB ...

Recently, my colleagues and I published a study on decoding language from brain recordings made using functional MRI. Brain decoders are being developed to help restore communication to people who ...

A new artificial intelligence system called a semantic decoder can translate a person's brain activity—while listening to a story or silently imagining telling a story—into a continuous stream of text ...

As a long time social studies educator, it is cliche and almost obligatory that I love maps. My joy in pouring over a map is not limited to determining my destination and defining the clearest route ...