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PS2021: Mind reading - Coggle Diagram
PS2021: Mind reading
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Mind Reading
Mind Reading
- Inferences based on behaviour & thoughts
Why
- Insight into how people think
- Behaviours & justifications
Sally-Anne Test
- Test whether children developed theory of mind
- Understanding others have diff thoughts
- Puppet put object in box & leave, experimenter move object to other box
- Ask child where puppet will look
- Complex as disentangle range info & can't dissociate what self & puppet saw
- What puppet saw, what child saw, what puppet would assume
- Show all develop theory of mind
Methods of Mind Reading
- Indirect
- Direct
- Direct visualisation
Polygraphs
Check simple physiological changes
- Heart rate
- Breathing
- Electrodermal response
- Reactions to carefully structured q's
- Baseline w. neutral q's & how change w. target q's
Limitation
- No unique physiological response to deception
- How to establish baseline
- Not account for physiological response to situation in
EEG
- All previous measures in some way indirect measures of what happening in brain
- Whether directly measuring brain activity help read mind
- EEG measures readiness potential
Readiness Potential (Libet et al., 1983)
- Voltage changes in premotor cortex
- Activity in ERP signal changes before action made
- Can measure intention to act
- Readiness potential begins to increase -.05 s before intention spikes & action @ 0s
Significance
- See changes in brain before action occur
- Even if not carry out action can see intended to
Limitation
- Controversial reliability for lie detection & not admissible in court
- Hypothesis show neutral then target object and see if change occur when shouldn't
P300 ERP (Rosenfeld, 2020)
- Event-related potential
- Voltage change from baseline @ 300ms after something shown in + direction
- Proposed as marker of recog to object
- Use for lie detection still controversial
fMRI
- Techniques often try to link brain areas w. higher cog processes/emo
- In certain cases more activity related w. particular type thought/emo in brain area
- Generally content of thought/emo being processed hard to deduce
- From mean brain activity over region/cluster of activity
Eye Tracking
- Eye movement depend on what person thinking & info they need
- Precise localisation
- As people bad @ recalling thoughts over time
Artifical Intelligence
- Suitable for processing large data
- Brain activity & associating patterns
- Variations in pattern learning techniques = Advancements
Neuroethics
Limits to Technology
- Cost
- Generalizability/reproducibility
- Added value
- Theoretical issues
Added Value
- Saturation of generative AI
Theoretical Issues
- Mind reading still in infancy
- More about inferences than reading minds
Neuroprivacy
- Who owns eye movement
- Is data truly anonymised
- Using user/patient data to train algorithms
- Predicting actions
Anonymisation
- Unique data can be pinpointed to individual
Predicting Actions
- Use of mindreading data to guide decisions of others unknowingly