La decodificación neuronal de las imágenes visuales durante el sueño

T Horikawa1, M Tamaki, Y Miyawaki

  • 1ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|April 6, 2013
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores decodificaron imágenes visuales durante el sueño utilizando el aprendizaje automático y la actividad cerebral. Este avance permite un análisis objetivo del contenido de los sueños al vincular los patrones neuronales con los informes verbales.

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