As It Happens5:44Scientists played Pink Floyd for people, then used their brain activity to recreate the song
Ludovic Bellier was thrilled when he first heard the muffled, barely decipherable version of Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall, generated from the brain activity of epilepsy patients.
Neuroscientists played the song for patients who had electrodes implanted in their brains. Then Bellier, a computational research scientist, trained a computer to analyze their recorded brain activity and recreate the tune — lyrics and all.
“When I heard the metallic quality of the sound, I was like, OK we’re on to something,” Bellier told As It
