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Cognition and language seem closely related to the human cognitive process, although they have not been studied and investigated in detail. Our brain is too complex to fully comprehend the structures and connectivity, as well as its…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-26 Zang-Hee Cho , Sun-Ha Paek , Young-Bo Kim , Taigyoun Cho , Hyejin Jeong , Haigun Lee

Brain decoding, understood as the process of mapping brain activities to the stimuli that generated them, has been an active research area in the last years. In the case of language stimuli, recent studies have shown that it is possible to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Nicolas Affolter , Beni Egressy , Damian Pascual , Roger Wattenhofer

This work presents a novel method of exploring human brain-visual representations, with a view towards replicating these processes in machines. The core idea is to learn plausible computational and biological representations by correlating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Simone Palazzo , Concetto Spampinato , Isaak Kavasidis , Daniela Giordano , Joseph Schmidt , Mubarak Shah

Deciphering natural language from brain activity through non-invasive devices remains a formidable challenge. Previous non-invasive decoders either require multiple experiments with identical stimuli to pinpoint cortical regions and enhance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Cenyuan Zhang , Xiaoqing Zheng , Ruicheng Yin , Shujie Geng , Jianhan Xu , Xuan Gao , Changze Lv , Zixuan Ling , Xuanjing Huang , Miao Cao , Jianfeng Feng

Decoding human visual neural representations is a challenging task with great scientific significance in revealing vision-processing mechanisms and developing brain-like intelligent machines. Most existing methods are difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Changde Du , Kaicheng Fu , Jinpeng Li , Huiguang He

Neuroscientists evaluate deep neural networks for natural language processing as possible candidate models for how language is processed in the brain. These models are often trained without explicit linguistic supervision, but have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Mostafa Abdou , Ana Valeria Gonzalez , Mariya Toneva , Daniel Hershcovich , Anders Søgaard

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Congchi Yin , Ziyi Ye , Piji Li

Addressing the question of visualising human mind could help us to find regions that are associated with observed cognition and responsible for expressing the elusive mental image, leading to a better understanding of cognitive function.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-11 Pan Wang , Rui Zhou , Shuo Wang , Ling Li , Wenjia Bai , Jialu Fan , Chunlin Li , Peter Childs , Yike Guo

Recent work has demonstrated that complex visual stimuli can be decoded from human brain activity using deep generative models, offering new ways to probe how the brain represents real-world scenes. However, many existing approaches first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Pinyuan Feng , Hossein Adeli , Wenxuan Guo , Fan Cheng , Ethan Hwang , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

Language understanding entails not just extracting the surface-level meaning of the linguistic input, but constructing rich mental models of the situation it describes. Here we propose that because processing within the brain's core…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Colton Casto , Anna Ivanova , Evelina Fedorenko , Nancy Kanwisher

Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) help patients with faltering communication abilities due to neurodegenerative diseases produce text or speech output by direct neural processing. However, practical implementation of such a system has proven…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Janaki Sheth , Ariel Tankus , Michelle Tran , Nader Pouratian , Itzhak Fried , William Speier

Human languages differ widely in their forms, each having distinct sounds, scripts, and syntax. Yet, they can all convey similar meaning. Do different languages converge on a shared neural substrate for conceptual meaning? We used language…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-26 Zaid Zada , Samuel A Nastase , Jixing Li , Uri Hasson

A fundamental challenge in neuroscience is to understand what structure in the world is represented in spatially distributed patterns of neural activity from multiple single-trial measurements. This is often accomplished by learning a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Jesse A. Livezey , Kristofer E. Bouchard , Edward F. Chang

Language Models (LMs) have achieved impressive performance on various linguistic tasks, but their relationship to human language processing in the brain remains unclear. This paper examines the gaps and overlaps between LMs and the brain at…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-08 Tommaso Tosato , Pascal Jr Tikeng Notsawo , Saskia Helbling , Irina Rish , Guillaume Dumas

Improving the interpretability of brain decoding approaches is of primary interest in many neuroimaging studies. Despite extensive studies of this type, at present, there is no formal definition for interpretability of brain decoding…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-21 Seyed Mostafa Kia , Andrea Passerini

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a powerful new language of science as evidenced by recent Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics that recognized contributions to AI applied to those areas. Yet, this new language lacks semantics, which makes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Artur d'Avila Garcez , Simon Odense

Understanding how the human brain represents visual concepts, and in which brain regions these representations are encoded, remains a long-standing challenge. Decades of work have advanced our understanding of visual representations, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Navve Wasserman , Matias Cosarinsky , Yuval Golbari , Aude Oliva , Antonio Torralba , Tamar Rott Shaham , Michal Irani

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

Decoding continuous language from brain activity is a formidable yet promising field of research. It is particularly significant for aiding people with speech disabilities to communicate through brain signals. This field addresses the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Xinpei Zhao , Jingyuan Sun , Shaonan Wang , Jing Ye , Xiaohan Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Language is crucial for human intelligence, but what exactly is its role? We take language to be a part of a system for understanding and communicating about situations. The human ability to understand and communicate about situations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-07 James L. McClelland , Felix Hill , Maja Rudolph , Jason Baldridge , Hinrich Schütze