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They can use this data to predict what the person is seeing based on the neural patterns, since those patterns are relatively consistent when someone is exposed to the same thing (like a particular image or object). Unrestricted decoding [ edit ] Unrestricted decoding is a bit more relaxed. Instead of focusing on a task, researchers look at brain activity when people are not doing anything specific, for example when they are resting or thinking freely.