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From the Ted Talk by Greg Gage: This computer is learning to read your mind

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Nathan's going to begin by placing edecrteols on Christy's head.

Nathan: My life is tangled.

(Laughter)

GG: And then he's going to show her a bunch of pictures from four different categories.

Nathan: Face, house, sencrey and weird peitrcus.

GG: As we show Christy hundreds of these images, we are also capturing the eciretacll waves onto Nathan's computer. We want to see if we can detect any visual inioatrmofn about the photos contained in the bniweaarvs, so when we're done, we're going to see if the EEG can tell us what kind of picture Christy is looking at, and if it does, each category should trigger a different brain signal.

Open Cloze


Nathan's going to begin by placing __________ on Christy's head.

Nathan: My life is tangled.

(Laughter)

GG: And then he's going to show her a bunch of pictures from four different categories.

Nathan: Face, house, _______ and weird ________.

GG: As we show Christy hundreds of these images, we are also capturing the __________ waves onto Nathan's computer. We want to see if we can detect any visual ___________ about the photos contained in the __________, so when we're done, we're going to see if the EEG can tell us what kind of picture Christy is looking at, and if it does, each category should trigger a different brain signal.

Solution


  1. information
  2. scenery
  3. brainwaves
  4. electrical
  5. pictures
  6. electrodes

Original Text


Nathan's going to begin by placing electrodes on Christy's head.

Nathan: My life is tangled.

(Laughter)

GG: And then he's going to show her a bunch of pictures from four different categories.

Nathan: Face, house, scenery and weird pictures.

GG: As we show Christy hundreds of these images, we are also capturing the electrical waves onto Nathan's computer. We want to see if we can detect any visual information about the photos contained in the brainwaves, so when we're done, we're going to see if the EEG can tell us what kind of picture Christy is looking at, and if it does, each category should trigger a different brain signal.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
machine learning 3
face correct 2
scenery correct 2


Important Words


  1. brain
  2. brainwaves
  3. bunch
  4. capturing
  5. categories
  6. category
  7. christy
  8. computer
  9. contained
  10. detect
  11. eeg
  12. electrical
  13. electrodes
  14. face
  15. head
  16. house
  17. hundreds
  18. images
  19. information
  20. kind
  21. laughter
  22. life
  23. photos
  24. picture
  25. pictures
  26. placing
  27. scenery
  28. show
  29. signal
  30. tangled
  31. trigger
  32. visual
  33. waves
  34. weird