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submitted 1 year ago by wordman@lemmy.ml to c/science@lemmy.ml

Researchers who recorded direct neural signals from people listening to “Another Brick in the Wall” have reproduced a recognizable version of the song from the neural data.

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[-] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 year ago

I'm sure this will never be abused to brutalize the working class

[-] ChemicalPilgrim@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Warning: attention drift detected please refocus on work. Six seconds deducted from shift total.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Hey, Pink Floyd aren't that bad.

[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Were the test subjects comfortably numb during the test?

[-] Thavron@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

One would hope.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's what you came for: the WAV downloads of the original audio, the version sampled from linear data, and the version sampled with nonlinear data. There are more of these in the OP which use less electrodes on less patients, you can find them quickly by using Control+F.

Original song waveform transformed into a magnitude-only auditory spectrogram, then transformed back into a waveform using an iterative phase-estimation algorithm.

Reconstructed song excerpt using linear models fed with all 347 significant electrodes from all 29 patients.

Reconstructed song excerpt using nonlinear models fed with all 347 significant electrodes from all 29 patients.

The nonlinear sampling sounds far more accurate than the linear sampling.

Black Mirror “Ashley Too” episode anyone?

this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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