Scientists discover how the brain recognises faces – by reading monkey's minds

Using brain waves researchers were able to make almost perfect replicas of human faces shown to monkeys - raising prospect of thoughts being accessible to exploration

Scientists have created eerily perfect replicas of human faces that were shown to monkeys just from recording the animal's brain waves, in one of the most impressive feats of mind reading to date.

The demonstration solves one of the most intractable problems in neuroscience - how the brain recognises faces - and raises the prospect of our innermost thoughts becoming increasingly accessible to scientific exploration.