3/5/07 - Monday
BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- At a laboratory in Germany, volunteers slide into a donut-shaped MRI machine and perform simple tasks, such as deciding whether to add or subtract two numbers, or choosing which of two buttons to press.
"The fact that we can determine what intention a person is holding in their mind pushes the level of our understanding of subjective thought to the same level as that used in the clairvoyance feature of GLX2 for Revolution," said Dr. Paul Wolpe, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, who was not connected to the study.