AI Unveils the Visual Secrets of Psychedelics: Analyzing 60,000+ Trip Reports
2025-02-25
UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher Sean Noah is using AI to analyze over 60,000 psychedelic trip reports from the Erowid website. His novel approach takes a bottom-up, rather than top-down, method to identify visual effects. The study revealed that less than 5% of reports describe visual effects, with psychedelics having the highest percentage and opioids the lowest. This research not only offers a more comprehensive understanding of psychedelics' impact on visual perception but also provides new tools for studying how the brain generates visual perception itself. Future work will integrate fMRI scanning to further explore how psychedelics affect brain activity.
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