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Cognitive science and neuroscience have long faced the challenge of disentangling representations of language from representations of conceptual meaning. As the same problem arises in today's language models (LMs), we investigate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Maria Ryskina , Greta Tuckute , Alexander Fung , Ashley Malkin , Evelina Fedorenko

Unveiling visual semantics from neural signals such as EEG, MEG, and fMRI remains a fundamental challenge due to subject variability and the entangled nature of visual features. Existing approaches primarily align neural activity directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Zehui Feng , Chenqi Zhang , Mingru Wang , Minuo Wei , Shiwei Cheng , Cuntai Guan , Ting Han

Reconstructing dynamic videos from fMRI is important for understanding visual cognition and enabling vivid brain-computer interfaces. However, current methods are critically limited to single-shot clips, failing to address the multi-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Wenwen Zeng , Yonghuang Wu , Yifan Chen , Xuan Xie , Chengqian Zhao , Feiyu Yin , Guoqing Wu , Jinhua Yu

Decoding visual content from fMRI signals recorded while a person views images, and specifically answering questions about the seen images, is a long-standing challenge. While significant progress has been made in recent years in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Roman Beliy , Matias Cosarinsky , Oliver Heinimann , Navve Wasserman , Michal Irani

LLMs have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in linguistic reasoning and are increasingly adept at vision-language tasks. The integration of image tokens into transformers has enabled direct visual input and output, advancing research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jonghun Kim , Sinyoung Ra , Hyunjin Park

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

Understanding how the brain encodes external stimuli and how these stimuli can be decoded from the measured brain activities are long-standing and challenging questions in neuroscience. In this paper, we focus on reconstructing the complex…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-05 Sikun Lin , Thomas Sprague , Ambuj K Singh

Emotional and cognitive factors are essential for understanding mental health disorders. However, existing methods often treat multi-modal data as classification tasks, limiting interpretability especially for emotion and cognition.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhiyuan Zhou , Yanrong Guo , Shijie Hao

Decoding non-invasive brain recordings is pivotal for advancing our understanding of human cognition but faces challenges due to individual differences and complex neural signal representations. Traditional methods often require customized…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Guobin Shen , Dongcheng Zhao , Xiang He , Linghao Feng , Yiting Dong , Jihang Wang , Qian Zhang , Yi Zeng

Visual decoding from brain signals is a key challenge at the intersection of computer vision and neuroscience, requiring methods that bridge neural representations and computational models of vision. A field-wide goal is to achieve…

The dispute of how the human brain represents conceptual knowledge has been argued in many scientific fields. Brain imaging studies have shown that the spatial patterns of neural activation in the brain are correlated with thinking about…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-15 Subba Reddy Oota , Naresh Manwani , Bapi Raju S

Due to the lack of paired samples and the low signal-to-noise ratio of functional MRI (fMRI) signals, reconstructing perceived natural images or decoding their semantic contents from fMRI data are challenging tasks. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yulong Liu , Yongqiang Ma , Wei Zhou , Guibo Zhu , Nanning Zheng

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xuelin Qian , Yikai Wang , Yanwei Fu , Xinwei Sun , Xiangyang Xue , Jianfeng Feng

Image reconstruction and captioning from brain activity evoked by visual stimuli allow researchers to further understand the connection between the human brain and the visual perception system. While deep generative models have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Weijian Mai , Zhijun Zhang

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (LLMs) have enabled unified reasoning across images, audio, and video, but extending such capability to brain imaging remains largely unexplored. Bridging this gap is essential to link…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yuxiang Wei , Yanteng Zhang , Xi Xiao , Chengxuan Qian , Tianyang Wang , Vince D. Calhoun

We introduce a method that takes advantage of high-quality pretrained multimodal representations to explore fine-grained semantic networks in the human brain. Previous studies have documented evidence of functional localization in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Cory Efird , Alex Murphy , Joel Zylberberg , Alona Fyshe

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at single-image understanding, they exhibit significantly degraded performance in multi-image reasoning scenarios. Multi-image reasoning presents fundamental challenges including complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jianghao Yin , Qingbin Li , Kun Sun , Cheng Ding , Jie Wang , Qin Chen , Jie Zhou , Nan Wang , Changqing Li , Pei Wu , Jian Xu , Zheming Yang , Liang He

Reconstructing seeing images from fMRI recordings is an absorbing research area in neuroscience and provides a potential brain-reading technology. The challenge lies in that visual encoding in brain is highly complex and not fully revealed.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Tao Fang , Yu Qi , Gang Pan

Concept-selective regions within the human cerebral cortex exhibit significant activation in response to specific visual stimuli associated with particular concepts. Precisely localizing these regions stands as a crucial long-term goal in…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-05 Guangyin Bao , Qi Zhang , Zixuan Gong , Zhuojia Wu , Duoqian Miao

Understanding the functional organization of higher visual cortex is a central focus in neuroscience. Past studies have primarily mapped the visual and semantic selectivity of neural populations using hand-selected stimuli, which may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Andrew F. Luo , Margaret M. Henderson , Michael J. Tarr , Leila Wehbe