Experiential, distributional and dependency-based word embeddings have complementary roles in decoding brain activity

S Abnar, R Ahmed, M Mijnheer, W Zuidema - ar** between concepts and the neural activity which
they elicit during neuroimaging experiments. Different approaches have been used to …

Representational similarity encoding for fMRI: Pattern-based synthesis to predict brain activity using stimulus-model-similarities

AJ Anderson, BD Zinszer, RDS Raizada - NeuroImage, 2016 - Elsevier
Patterns of neural activity are systematically elicited as the brain experiences categorical
stimuli and a major challenge is to understand what these patterns represent. Two influential …

Exploring the representations of individual entities in the brain combining EEG and distributional semantics

A Bruera, M Poesio - Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Semantic knowledge about individual entities (ie, the referents of proper names such as
Jacinta Ardern) is fine-grained, episodic, and strongly social in nature, when compared with …

Predicting brain activation with wordnet embeddings

J Rodrigues, R Branco, J Silva, C Saedi… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
The task of taking a semantic representation of a noun and predicting the brain activity
triggered by it in terms of fMRI spatial patterns was pioneered by Mitchell et al. 2008. That …

Feature selection methods for zero-shot learning of neural activity

CA Caceres, MJ Roos, KM Rupp, G Milsap… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Dimensionality poses a serious challenge when making predictions from human
neuroimaging data. Across imaging modalities, large pools of potential neural features (eg …

Neural activation semantic models: Computational lexical semantic models of localized neural activations

N Athanasiou, E Iosif, A Potamianos - Proceedings of the 27th …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
Neural activation models have been proposed in the literature that use a set of example
words for which fMRI measurements are available in order to find a map** between word …

Limiting factors for map** corpus-based semantic representations to brain activity

JA Bullinaria, JP Levy - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
To help understand how semantic information is represented in the human brain, a number
of previous studies have explored how a linear map** from corpus derived semantic …

Bridging Natural Language Processing and psycholinguistics: computationally grounded semantic similarity datasets for Basque and Spanish

J Goikoetxea, I San Martin, M Arantzeta - Frontiers in Language …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Semantic relations are crucial in various cognitive processes, highlighting the
need to understand concept interactions and how such relations are represented in the …