Scientists have reconstructed Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” through recordings of epilepsy surgery patients’ brainwaves as they listened to the song.

It is the first time a recognisable song has been decoded from the recordings of brain activity.

It is possible to make out the original song from the reconstruction, the phrase “all in all it was just a brick in the wall” slurred but recognisable.

“It’s a wonderful result,” said Robert Knight, a neurologist and UC Berkeley professor of psychology in the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute who conducted the study with postdoctoral fellow Ludovic Bellier.