{"id":236635,"date":"2024-06-26T13:07:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/26\/ai-reads-brain-activity-to-reveal-what-part-of-a-movie-youre-watching\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:16:07","slug":"ai-reads-brain-activity-to-reveal-what-part-of-a-movie-youre-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/26\/ai-reads-brain-activity-to-reveal-what-part-of-a-movie-youre-watching\/","title":{"rendered":"AI reads brain activity to reveal what part of a movie you&#8217;re watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1351\" height=\"900\" alt=\"A scene from the film \" days=\"\" of=\"\" summer=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/24154725\/SEI_210198171.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2436769\" data-caption=\"A viewer\u2019s brain activity told scientists when characters in the film (500) Days of Summer were on screen\" data-credit=\"Collection Christophel \/ Alamy\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">A viewer\u2019s brain activity told scientists when characters in the film (500) Days of Summer were on screen<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Collection Christophel \/ Alamy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Movie characters and locations can be deciphered by monitoring the activity of people\u2019s neurons while they watch a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article-topic\/film\/\">film<\/a>, a discovery that could help us understand how the brain stores memories as they are being made.<\/p>\n<p>A deep <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article-topic\/brain\/\">brain<\/a> structure called the hippocampus, which is critical for memory, contains neurons that encode the identity of objects, such as tools or buildings. 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But a lot of our knowledge\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2436759-ai-reads-brain-activity-to-reveal-what-part-of-a-movie-youre-watching\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A viewer\u2019s brain activity told scientists when characters in the film (500) Days of Summer were on screen Collection Christophel \/ Alamy Movie characters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}