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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…

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Deep learning is leading to major advances in the realm of brain decoding from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). However, the large inter-subject variability in brain characteristics has limited most studies to train models on…

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Previous studies have shown that it is possible to map brain activation data of subjects viewing images onto the feature representation space of not only vision models (modality-specific decoding) but also language models (cross-modal…

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Neurosymbolic (NeSy) frameworks combine neural representations and learning with symbolic representations and reasoning. Combining the reasoning capacities, explainability, and interpretability of symbolic processing with the flexibility…

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Recent advances in large language models have accelerated open-vocabulary EEG-to-imagined-text decoding, where non-invasive neural activity recorded during visual perception is translated into coherent natural language descriptions of…

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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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Functional MRI (fMRI) is a powerful technique that has allowed us to characterize visual cortex responses to stimuli, yet such experiments are by nature constructed based on a priori hypotheses, limited to the set of images presented to the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-18 Zijin Gu , Keith W. Jamison , Meenakshi Khosla , Emily J. Allen , Yihan Wu , Thomas Naselaris , Kendrick Kay , Mert R. Sabuncu , Amy Kuceyeski

A fundamental challenge in neuroscience is to decode mental states from brain activity. While functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) offers a non-invasive approach to capture brain-wide neural dynamics with high spatial precision,…

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Deciphering brain function through non-invasive recordings requires synthesizing complementary high-frequency electromagnetic (EEG/MEG) and low-frequency metabolic (fMRI) signals. However, despite their shared neural origins, extreme…

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Functional MRI data exhibit high-dimensional spatiotemporal structure, making both prediction and decoding challenging. In this work, we investigate neural integral-operator-based models for encoding and decoding tasks in fMRI, with…

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We marry two powerful ideas: deep representation learning for visual recognition and language understanding, and symbolic program execution for reasoning. Our neural-symbolic visual question answering (NS-VQA) system first recovers a…

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An unprecedented amount of existing functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data provides a new opportunity to understand the relationship between functional fluctuation and human cognition/behavior using a data-driven approach. To…

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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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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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Compositional generalization is crucial for artificial intelligence agents to solve complex vision-language reasoning tasks. Neuro-symbolic approaches have demonstrated promise in capturing compositional structures, but they face critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Danial Kamali , Elham J. Barezi , Parisa Kordjamshidi

We propose a neuro-symbolic architecture that learns four interpretable physiological concepts, oculomotor dynamics, gaze stability, prefrontal hemodynamics, and multimodal, from eye-tracking and neural hemodynamics, functional…

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