for project leader marcel just the mind is no longer a private realm that's inaccessible to others. my dream is to explain the nature of human thought our mind is our sort of most private place the place you can always retreat to and nobody can get at it normally but with new technologies we're going to be able to get inside people's minds the infrastructure of the mind is the brain it's in your mind it's in your brain of it's in your brain it should be decoded. in this study volunteers were placed in an m.r.i. machine and presented with two hundred forty simple sentences.