<p>Is there an EEG brain signal that has specific features resulting from imagination? For example, if a subject sees a car and imagines that the car is moving left. Could we capture this signal and decrypt what was the person imagining?</p>

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2014-10-26T19:29:45.707Z
The first thing you need to do is find in the literature, or construct and validate, a sound definition of "imagination".
Krysta
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2014-10-26T19:38:59.340Z
@Krysta , Wow i was thinking that word does not need clarification !
Learner
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2014-10-26T19:51:52.107Z
In experimentation, *everything* needs a validated operational definition.
Krysta
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2014-10-26T20:21:09.840Z
@Krysta , I'm sorry , you question seems hard  to explain abstract thing like `imagination` , at least for a  person who is specialist little far a way from cognitive science or neuroscience , but if you looking to the following [paper](http://icwww.epfl.ch/~gerstner/PUBLICATIONS/Millan04.pdf) , at page 8 the authors used the word `imagination` without definition , and what they did(which is explained in the same page ) are so close to what i want to do , thanks in advance.
Learner
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2014-11-24T23:33:20.203Z
@Learner I often bump in people that think some word does not need clarification. Being unfriendly to other people you're motivating me to push on your question being closed instead of helping you to clarify.
Tomáš Zato
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2014-11-26T05:52:31.260Z
@TomášZato , I've never mean to being unfriendly to anyone , I'm apologia if this appear in my words.
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Detect an imagination EEG signal
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# Detect an imagination EEG signal

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-10-24)

Is there an EEG brain signal that has specific features resulting from imagination? For example, if a subject sees a car and imagines that the car is moving left. Could we capture this signal and decrypt what was the person imagining?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: The first thing you need to do is find in the literature, or construct and validate, a sound definition of "imagination".  
> **username_0**: @username_1 , Wow i was thinking that word does not need clarification !  
> **username_1**: In experimentation, *everything* needs a validated operational definition.  
> **username_0**: @username_1 , I'm sorry , you question seems hard  to explain abstract thing like `imagination` , at least for a  person who is specialist little far a way from cognitive science or neuroscience , but if you looking to the following [paper](http://icwww.epfl.ch/~gerstner/PUBLICATIONS/Millan04.pdf) , at page 8 the authors used the word `imagination` without definition , and what they did(which is explained in the same page ) are so close to what i want to do , thanks in advance.  
> **username_2**: @username_0 I often bump in people that think some word does not need clarification. Being unfriendly to other people you're motivating me to push on your question being closed instead of helping you to clarify.  
> **username_0**: @TomášZato , I've never mean to being unfriendly to anyone , I'm apologia if this appear in my words.  

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