Tomoyasu Horikawa
@hkt52.bsky.social
Researcher http://www.kecl.ntt.co.jp/people/tomoyasu.horikawa.hp/
Our recent work on “mind captioning” was covered by CNN. Scientist turns people’s mental images into text using “mind-captioning” technology edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/s...
Scientist turns people’s mental images into text using ‘mind-captioning’ technology | CNN
A scientist in Japan has developed a technique that uses brain scans and artificial intelligence to turn a person’s mental images into descriptive sentences.
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A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity, with impressive accuracy. go.nature.com/3XbnxB1
‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text
A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world.
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Our "mind captioning" paper is now published in Science Advances @science.org . The method generates descriptive text of what we perceive and recall from brain activity — a linguistic interpretation of nonverbal mental content rather than language decoding. doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Mind captioning: Evolving descriptive text of mental content from human brain activity
Nonverbal thoughts can be translated into verbal descriptions by aligning semantic representations between text and the brain.
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