Look into the future. Canadian researchers from the University of Western Ontario have found a method to accurately predict human behavior, which he had not yet committed. Developments might be interested in the police to use them to neutralize intruders.

Amazing invention is somewhat similar to the plot of the sci-fi movie "Minority Report" with Tom Cruise, where there was a system of crime prevention. As a result, prevent and punish illegal actions of criminals turned out even before they created their bad dealings.

However, unlike movie Canadian scientists know how to guess the man's actions in just a moment before he commits them. Moreover, in order to determine what action a person plan, no need to introduce people to no chips and the like, but have to use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

It should be noted that the opening was a result of experiments that were conducted throughout the year. Volunteers go through fMRI at a time when they needed to do some physical exercise. For each test subject's choice could either touch the top of some object or to the bottom, or just to touch him.

Scientists also scanned the brains of each participant to determine how planned actions. In the end, the experimenters were able to predict with very high probability, some of the actions set out to do volunteer for a few seconds after the planning of this. And all because the fMRI recorded the neuronal activity that indicates the next act of man.

Benefit study is that it will help disabled people with dentures. A special unit will be able to read minds and send a signal to the artificial arm or leg, which will make the move. However, there are more ambitious versions of the development of scientists. It is not excluded that in time there will be machines that will adopt the police. For example, law enforcement officers will be able to recognize the intentions of the perpetrator, is aimed a gun at a hostage - he will fire or not.

Explained RBC daily head of the Laboratory of Developmental Physiology, Department of Brain Research Brain Research Center of Neurology, Sc.D., Professor Vitaly Fokin, a study that had a Canadian scientists, based on the fact that a person is placed in front of the so-called paradigm choice - free volunteer in deciding what action he performed. The subjects received one way or another, and scientists record the difference in activity in specific brain regions, which preceded the action itself.

"Simply put, scientists record certain testimony, and then know that such a reaction of the brain anticipates such a deed of man. In order to predict accurately the next person's actions, the researchers had to spend long dimension to compare brain activity in one state with its activity in another. In this and all analysis is based", - said Mr. Fokin.
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