A post-doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a project that can analyze brain activity and sort users into a Hogwarts house.
MIT Media Lab student Nataliya Kosmyna says her “Thinking Cap” project is made of noninvasive electrodes that capture a person’s brain activity and then uses machine learning to detect what a user is imagining. The Boston Globe reports the electrodes are encased in a wizard hat prop modeled after the Sorting Hat from the popular “Harry Potter” series.