Scientists at the University of California Berkeley have recreated a Pink Floyd song using previously recorded brain waves.
A neurologist and a team of researchers used brain activity recordings from a previous study when epilepsy patients were played “Another Brick In The Wall Part I.”
The research “allowed us to make significant progress not just in understanding but also in the translation of these understandings into therapies, into better diagnostic options, essentially to help patients with very specific neurological disorders and diseases,” according to Peter Brunner, a neurosurgery professor conducting the study.
“In people who have traumatic brain injuries and other conditions, we can now better understand why they may perceive the world in a different way,” Brunner said.
While explaining the reason for the song Brunner said, “We were looking for a song that had all these different components, lyrics, melodies, some silence components, some instruments…I’m quite happy we picked Pink Floyd and not something else from the 80s.”
Researchers have now reconstructed what the patients were hearing just by looking at the brain activity.
The practical application of the study could someday help people who have trouble speaking.