“As pollsters have so well demonstrated this presidential primary season, reading minds, whether of voters or the person next to you, is close to impossible. However as this ScienCentral News video explains, scientists are actually one step closer to reading our thoughts. … [T]he new research is aimed at the biology underlying thoughts-- or, as scientists call them, ‘cognitive processes.’ Carnegie Mellon cognitive psychologist Marcel Just teamed up with machine learning expert Tom Mitchell to conduct the research.”

The video is embedded in the accompanying article.