Carnegie Mellon Scientists Crack Brain's Codes for Noun Meanings -- PITTSBURGH, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ --

Carnegie Mellon Scientists Crack Brain's Codes for Noun Meanings

"Identifying Thoughts Through Brain Codes Leads To Deciphering the Brain's Dictionary....

In effect, we discovered how the brain's dictionary is organized," said Just, the D.O. Hebb Professor of Psychology and director of the Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging. "It isn't alphabetical or ordered by the sizes of objects or their colors. It's through the three basic features that the brain uses to define common nouns like apartment, hammer and carrot."