SMRTR Science & EngineeringNov 6, 2025Scientific American

AI Decodes Visual Brain Activity—and Writes Captions for It

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Japanese researchers developed an AI system that reads brain scans and generates written descriptions of what people are seeing or remembering, achieving remarkable accuracy using non-invasive imaging. The breakthrough "mind captioning" technique could help stroke patients with language difficulties communicate and reveals how the brain represents visual information before forming words.

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