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Holy Cow! Recording images from a cat's brain????

This was back in 1999. How did I miss this? Does anyone know if this technology has progressed since then? Seems legit but sounds like SciFi...

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/10-15-1999.html

Here is a blurb from the press release...

The team recorded signals from a total of 177 cells in the lateral geniculate nucleus - a part of the brain's thalamus that processes visual signals from the eye - as they played a digitized movie of indoor and outdoor scenes for the cat. Using simple mathematical filters, the researchers decoded the signals to generate a movie of what the cat actually saw. The reconstructed movie turned out to be amazingly faithful to the original.

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