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Toward a universal decoder of linguistic meaning from brain activation.


ABSTRACT: 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 generalize to new meanings from limited imaging data. To validate this approach, we train the system on imaging data of individual concepts, and show it can decode semantic vector representations from imaging data of sentences about a wide variety of both concrete and abstract topics from two separate datasets. These decoded representations are sufficiently detailed to distinguish even semantically similar sentences, and to capture the similarity structure of meaning relationships between sentences.

SUBMITTER: Pereira F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5840373 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Toward a universal decoder of linguistic meaning from brain activation.

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]

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