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Subba Reddy Oota, Manish Gupta, Raju S. Bapi, Gaël Jobard + 2 more
'Frédéric Alexandre' 'Xavier Hinaut'] How does the brain represent different modes of information? Can we design a system that automatically understands what the user is thinking? Such questions can be answered by studying brain recordings like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). As a first step, the…
Jiawei Zhang
This is a follow-up tutorial article of [17] and [16], in this paper, we will introduce several important cognitive functions of the brain. Brain cognitive functions are the mental processes that allow us to receive, select, store, transform, develop, and recover information that we've received from external stimuli.…
Hao Wu, Ziyu Zhu, Jiayi Wang, Nanning Zheng + 1 more
—Neural encoding and decoding, which aim to characterize the relationship between stimuli and brain activities, have emerged as an important area in cognitive neuroscience. Traditional encoding models, which focus on feature extraction and mapping, consider the brain as an input-output mapper without inner states. In…
Jennifer Williams, Leila Wehbe
individual's brain Authors: ['Jennifer Williams' 'Leila Wehbe'] Similar to how differences in the proficiency of the cardiovascular and musculoskeletal system predict an individual's athletic ability, differences in how the same brain region encodes information across individuals may explain their behavior. However…
Yumi Shikauchi, Shin Ishii
In a familiar city, people can recall scene views (e.g., a particular street corner scene) they could encounter again in the future. Complex objects with multiple features are represented by multiple neural units (channels) in the brain, but when anticipating a scene view, the kind of feature that is assigned to a…
Romain Brette
“Neural coding” is a popular metaphor in neuroscience, where objective properties of the world are communicated to the brain in the form of spikes. Here I argue that this metaphor is often inappropriate and misleading. First, when neurons are said to encode experimental parameters, the implied communication channel…
Ruedeerat Keerativittayayut, Ryuta Aoki, Mitra Taghizadeh Sarabi, Koji Jimura + 3 more
'Koji Jimura' 'Kiyoshi Nakahara' 'Roberto Cabeza' 'Sabine Kastner'] Although activation/deactivation of specific brain regions has been shown to be predictive of successful memory encoding, the relationship between time-varying large-scale brain networks and fluctuations of memory encoding performance remains unclear.…
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Pamela K. Douglas
Encoding and decoding models are widely used in systems, cognitive, and computational neuroscience to make sense of brain-activity data. However, the interpretation of their results requires care. Decoding models can help reveal whether particular information is present in a brain region in a format the decoder can…
Nima Maleki, Hamid Karimi-Rouzbahani
Sensory neural coding, the brain’s process of transforming inputs into informative patterns of neural activity, generates complex and multiplexed neural codes which are hard to interpret. Although decoding methods have facilitated the interpretation of these codes, the specific features of neural activity that…
Janet M. Baker, Peter Cariani
Time is essential for understanding the brain. A temporal theory for realizing major brain functions (e.g., sensation, cognition, motivation, attention, memory, learning, and motor action) is proposed that uses temporal codes, time-domain neural networks, correlation-based binding processes and signal dynamics. It…
Takuya Ito, Luke J. Hearne, Ravi D. Mill, Carrisa Cocuzza + 1 more
'Michael W. Cole'] Understanding neurocognitive computations will require not just localizing cognitive information distributed throughout the brain but also determining how that information got there. We review recent advances in linking empirical and simulated brain network organization with cognitive information…
Giulia Galli
When we form new memories, their mnestic fate largely depends upon the cognitive operations set in train during encoding. A typical observation in experimental as well as everyday life settings is that if we learn an item using semantic or “deep” operations, such as attending to its meaning, memory will be better than…
Jerry Tang, Amanda LeBel, Shailee Jain, Alexander G. Huth
A brain-computer interface that decodes continuous language from non-invasive recordings would have many scientific and practical applications. Currently, however, decoders that reconstruct continuous language use invasive recordings from surgically implanted electrodes^1–3^, while decoders that use non-invasive…
Robert Worden
This paper uses simple arguments to derive a negative conclusion: that a computer cannot be conscious. If the brain is only a neural computer, brains cannot be conscious. Consciousness implies that there is something else happening in the brain, besides computation. In a running computer, information about outside…
Hamid Karimi-Rouzbahani
Distinct neural processes are often encoded across distinct time scales of neural activations. However, it has remained unclear if this multiscale coding strategy is also implemented for separate features of the same process. One difficulty is that the conventional methods of time scale analysis provide imperfect…
Erhard Bieberich
Consciousness remains poorly understood as a causative force: existing theories treat it as an epiphenomenal correlate of neural activity rather than explaining how inner experience controls its substrate. I present Recurrent Integration Fractal Theory (RIFT), proposing that consciousness arises when fractal…
Lee de-Wit, David Alexander, Vebjørn Ekroll, Johan Wagemans
Psychology moved beyond the stimulus response mapping of behaviorism by adopting an information processing framework. This shift from behavioral to cognitive science was partly inspired by work demonstrating that the concept of information could be defined and quantified (Shannon, [69]). This transition developed…
Karl H Pribram
What makes man human is his brain. This brain is obviously different from those of nonhuman primates. It is larger, shows hemispheric dominance and specialization, and is cytoarchitecturally somewhat more generalized. But are these the essential characteristics that determine the humanness of man? This paper cannot…
Aliye Hazal Koyuncu, Jacopo Movilli, Sevil Sahin, Dmitrii V. Kriukov + 2 more
This work describes a competing activation network, which is regulated by chemical feedback at the liquid-surface interface. Feedback loops dynamically tune the concentration of chemical components in living systems, thereby controlling regulatory processes in neural, genetic, and metabolic networks. Advances in…