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SUBMITTER: Pereira F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5840373 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pereira Francisco F Lou Bin B Pritchett Brianna B Ritter Samuel S Gershman Samuel J SJ Kanwisher Nancy N Botvinick Matthew M Fedorenko Evelina E
Nature communications 20180306 1
Prior work decoding linguistic meaning from imaging data has been largely limited to concrete nouns, using similar stimuli for training and testing, from a relatively small number of semantic categories. Here we present a new approach for building a brain decoding system in which words and sentences are represented as vectors in a semantic space constructed from massive text corpora. By efficiently sampling this space to select training stimuli shown to subjects, we maximize the ability to gener ...[more]