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Due to the low signal-to-noise ratio and limited resolution of functional MRI data, and the high complexity of natural images, reconstructing a visual stimulus from human brain fMRI measurements is a challenging task. In this work, we…

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Decoding language from neural signals holds considerable theoretical and practical importance. Previous research has indicated the feasibility of decoding text or speech from invasive neural signals. However, when using non-invasive neural…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Bo Wang , Xiran Xu , Longxiang Zhang , Boda Xiao , Xihong Wu , Jing Chen

Decoding visual-semantic information from brain signals, such as functional MRI (fMRI), across different subjects poses significant challenges, including low signal-to-noise ratio, limited data availability, and cross-subject variability.…

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Brain-related research topics in artificial intelligence have recently gained popularity, particularly due to the expansion of what multimodal architectures can do from computer vision to natural language processing. Our main goal in this…

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fMRI semantic category understanding using linguistic encoding models attempts to learn a forward mapping that relates stimuli to the corresponding brain activation. State-of-the-art encoding models use a single global model (linear or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Subba Reddy Oota , Naresh Manwani , Raju S. Bapi

Language models have been shown to be rich enough to encode fMRI activations of certain Regions of Interest in our Brains. Previous works have explored transfer learning from representations learned for popular natural language processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Arvindh Arun , Jerrin John , Sanjai Kumaran

Language-brain encoding experiments evaluate the ability of language models to predict brain responses elicited by language stimuli. The evaluation scenarios for this task have not yet been standardized which makes it difficult to compare…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Lisa Beinborn , Samira Abnar , Rochelle Choenni

We investigate optimal strategies for decoding perceived natural speech from fMRI data acquired from a limited number of participants. Leveraging Lebel et al. (2023)'s dataset of 8 participants, we first demonstrate the effectiveness of…

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Many recent studies have shown that the perception of speech can be decoded from brain signals and subsequently reconstructed as continuous language. However, there is a lack of neurological basis for how the semantic information embedded…

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Language, as an information medium created by advanced organisms, has always been a concern of neuroscience regarding how it is represented in the brain. Decoding linguistic representations in the evoked brain has shown groundbreaking…

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Decoding language information from brain signals represents a vital research area within brain-computer interfaces, particularly in the context of deciphering the semantic information from the fMRI signal. Although existing work uses LLM to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Xiaoyu Chen , Changde Du , Che Liu , Yizhe Wang , Huiguang He

Functional MRI (fMRI) has become the most common method for investigating the human brain. However, fMRI data present some complications for statistical analysis and modeling. One recently developed approach to these data focuses on…

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Among the most impressive recent applications of neural decoding is the visual representation decoding, where the category of an object that a subject either sees or imagines is inferred by observing his/her brain activity. Even though…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Angeliki Papadimitriou , Nikolaos Passalis , Anastasios Tefas

Brain decoding involves the determination of a subject's cognitive state or an associated stimulus from functional neuroimaging data measuring brain activity. In this setting the cognitive state is typically characterized by an element of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-14 Nicole Croteau , Farouk S. Nathoo , Jiguo Cao , Ryan Budney

Decoding language from the human brain remains a grand challenge for Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs). Current approaches typically rely on unimodal brain representations, neglecting the brain's inherently multimodal processing. Inspired by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Chunyu Ye , Yunhao Zhang , Jingyuan Sun , Chong Li , Chengqing Zong , Shaonan Wang

In this work, we explore the decoding of mental imagery from subjects using their fMRI measurements. In order to achieve this decoding, we first created a mapping between a subject's fMRI signals elicited by the videos the subjects watched.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Arman Afrasiyabi , Erica Busch , Rahul Singh , Dhananjay Bhaskar , Laurent Caplette , Nicholas Turk-Browne , Smita Krishnaswamy

The activations of language transformers like GPT-2 have been shown to linearly map onto brain activity during speech comprehension. However, the nature of these activations remains largely unknown and presumably conflate distinct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Charlotte Caucheteux , Alexandre Gramfort , Jean-Remi King

What information from an act of sentence understanding is robustly represented in the human brain? We investigate this question by comparing sentence encoding models on a brain decoding task, where the sentence that an experimental…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Jon Gauthier , Roger Levy

Brain encoding and decoding aims to understand the relationship between external stimuli and brain activities, and is a fundamental problem in neuroscience. In this article, we study latent embedding alignment for brain encoding and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-24 Shuoxun Xu , Zhanhao Yan , Lexin Li

The connection between brain activity and corresponding visual stimuli is crucial in comprehending the human brain. While deep generative models have exhibited advancement in recovering brain recordings by generating images conditioned on…

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