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A scientist in Japan has developed a technique that uses brain scans and artificial intelligence to turn a person's mental images into accurate, descriptive sentences.

While there has been progress in using scans of brain activity to translate the words we think into text, turning our complex mental images into language has proved challenging, according to Tomoyasu Horikawa, author of a study published November 5 in the journal Science Advances .

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However, Horikawa's new method, known as "mind-captioning," works by using AI to generate descriptive text that mirrors information in the brain about visual details such as objects, places, actions and events, as well as the relationships between them.

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