[FRIAM] Fwd: Upcoming 60 Minutes broadcast

[George Duncan]

This "60 Minutes" segment should be of interest to many FRIAM folk.
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From: Marcel Just <just at cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 2:16 PM
Subject: Upcoming 60 Minutes broadcast
To: Just, Marcel <just at cmu.edu>


Dear colleagues,

  I wanted to let you know that "60 Minutes" is scheduled to broadcast a
segment on Sunday Nov. 24 that describes the research that my colleagues
and I have been doing.
  They refer to our work as "mind-reading." What it actually consists of is
measuring brain activity with fMRI, and from that pattern of activity being
able to tell what the person is thinking about.
  The 60 Minutes program will probably focus on some of the practical
applications of this method. For example, this method makes it possible in
the work with David Brent to tell whether a person has been thinking about
suicide, which is very useful in psychiatric applications. It also makes it
possible for us to see the activation pattern for very advanced abstract
scientific concepts, like "dark matter", which looks the same in the brains
of all faculty-level physicists.
  Normally we don't notify anyone about press coverage of our research but
this broadcast will probably describe the work in a way that everyone can
understand. In the past, the 60 Minutes team has done an outstanding job of
first learning about the research themselves and then communicating it
clearly in their program. Lesley Stahl is the interviewer.
   60 Minutes has posted a short preview of the segment on their website if
you would like to see a sample ahead of time:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mind-reading-scientists-decode-human-thoughts-and-emotions-using-mri-and-computer-analysis-60-minutes-2019-11-20/
If you are busy this Sunday evening but are interested in seeing the full
segment, it will probably be available on the 60 Minutes web page after the
broadcast at:
https://www.cbsnews.com/60-minutes/

Best regards,
Marcel

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Marcel Just
D.O. Hebb University Professor of Psychology
Director, Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging
Psychology Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
email: just at cmu.edu
tel: 412-268-2791; fax: 412-268-2804
CCBI website: http://www.ccbi.cmu.edu
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