Mind Reading

This week in Psycology we learned something very peculiar about mind reading. I new before that doctors could observe our brains through MRI's, but I didn't know they could read our mind before, that is something I never imagined could happen. The video taught me that there is a machine that is called Functional MRI that can read your thoughts. It works by asking the person put in the MRI to think about something and the machine detects the parts of the brain working and then what they are thinking. I found out that when you think of something, several parts of the brain work to produce the thought. Another thing they can scan is your intentions.  They sometimes use it on criminals, for example, they can scan a pedophile and show him a picture of a baby and see what does he feel, think and want to do with the baby in the picture. It can also show a  scene to someone and see if they are familiar with the situation in it. But then it told us that they did some tests wanting to prove what was the best way to cell the product to a person and they turned out to be not very effective because they sometimes don’t prove your behavior.