Mind-Reading Tech Can Now Tap Into the Music Inside Your Brain

Your musical thoughts aren’t private anymore

Pavle Marinkovic
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4 min readAug 14, 2024

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Tech innovation is accelerating at a pace that’s borderline terrifying.

I’m talking about tech that blurs the line between man and machine.

We have mind-computer interactions where people control their robotic arms with the mind, but that’s just the beginning. The next frontier is music-emotion interaction.

Your mind, the last sanctuary of privacy, is becoming an open book. Technology can now tap into the music inside your brain, and the next frontier? Creating dynamic surroundings that respond in real-time to what’s happening inside your heart and mind. Here’s where we’re heading.

Scientists decode music from your mind

In 2017, a group of researchers aimed to figure out if it’s possible to identify specific musical pieces just by analyzing brain activity using fMRI scans.

In other words, is it possible to “read” the music you’re listening to directly from your brain?

They brought six participants, put them in an fMRI machine, and had them listen to 40 different pieces of music from various genres like Classical, Rock, Pop, Jazz, and Folk. The participants

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Pavle Marinkovic
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