{"id":9426,"date":"2023-09-20T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9426"},"modified":"2024-04-15T18:36:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T01:36:32","slug":"ai-reconstructing-songs-from-brain-scans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9426","title":{"rendered":"AI reconstructing songs from brain scans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 15-second audio clip sounds like a muffled version of Pink Floyd&#8217;s Another Brick in the Wall played underwater. Except Pink Floyd didn\u2019t perform any of the music in the clip. Instead, the track was captured by a team of researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, who looked at the brain activity of more than two dozen people who listened to the song. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3qBgWDn\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"727\" data-attachment-id=\"9427\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=9427\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/09\/image.png?fit=1200%2C1362&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,1362\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/09\/image.png?fit=640%2C727&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=640%2C727&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9427\" style=\"width:319px;height:362px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=902%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 902w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=264%2C300&amp;ssl=1 264w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=768%2C872&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/09\/image.png?resize=238%2C270&amp;ssl=1 238w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2023\/09\/image.png?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>That data was then decoded by a machine learning model and reconstructed into audio \u2014 marking the first time researchers have been able to re-create a song from neural signals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/hear-classic-pink-floyd-song-reconstructed-listeners-brain-waves\">https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/hear-classic-pink-floyd-song-reconstructed-listeners-brain-waves<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/neuroscientists-re-create-pink-floyd-song-from-listeners-brain-activity\/?amp=true\">https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/neuroscientists-re-create-pink-floyd-song-from-listeners-brain-activity\/?amp=true<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/08\/18\/pink-floyd-ai-song\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/08\/18\/pink-floyd-ai-song\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 15-second audio clip sounds like a muffled version of Pink Floyd&#8217;s Another Brick in the Wall played underwater. Except Pink Floyd didn\u2019t perform any of the music in the clip. Instead, the track was captured by a team of researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, who looked at the brain activity of more than two dozen people who listened to the song. That data was then decoded by a machine learning model and reconstructed into audio \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9426\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,18,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-music","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2s2","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11226,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions\/11226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}