Representational geometry: integrating cognition, computation, and the brain

N Kriegeskorte, RA Kievit - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2013 - cell.com
The cognitive concept of representation plays a key role in theories of brain information
processing. However, linking neuronal activity to representational content and cognitive …

STATIS and DISTATIS: optimum multitable principal component analysis and three way metric multidimensional scaling

H Abdi, LJ Williams, D Valentin… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
STATIS is an extension of principal component analysis (PCA) tailored to handle multiple
data tables that measure sets of variables collected on the same observations, or …

A mathematical theory of semantic development in deep neural networks

AM Saxe, JL McClelland… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
An extensive body of empirical research has revealed remarkable regularities in the
acquisition, organization, deployment, and neural representation of human semantic …

Unique semantic space in the brain of each beholder predicts perceived similarity

I Charest, RA Kievit, TW Schmitz… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The unique way in which each of us perceives the world must arise from our brain
representations. If brain imaging could reveal an individual's unique mental representation …

Similarity of fMRI activity patterns in left perirhinal cortex reflects semantic similarity between words

R Bruffaerts, P Dupont, R Peeters… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
How verbal and nonverbal visuoperceptual input connects to semantic knowledge is a core
question in visual and cognitive neuroscience, with significant clinical ramifications. In an …

Neural alignment predicts learning outcomes in students taking an introduction to computer science course

M Meshulam, L Hasenfratz, H Hillman, YF Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite major advances in measuring human brain activity during and after educational
experiences, it is unclear how learners internalize new content, especially in real-life and …

Just above chance: is it harder to decode information from prefrontal cortex hemodynamic activity patterns?

A Bhandari, C Gagne, D Badre - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2018 - direct.mit.edu
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is central to flexible, goal-directed cognition, and understanding
its representational code is an important problem in cognitive neuroscience. In humans …

Representations of modality‐specific affective processing for visual and auditory stimuli derived from functional magnetic resonance imaging data

SV Shinkareva, J Wang, J Kim, MJ Facciani… - Human brain …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
There is converging evidence that people rapidly and automatically encode affective
dimensions of objects, events, and environments that they encounter in the normal course of …

What makes different people's representations alike: neural similarity space solves the problem of across-subject fMRI decoding

RDS Raizada, AC Connolly - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2012 - direct.mit.edu
A central goal in neuroscience is to interpret neural activation and, moreover, to do so in a
way that captures universal principles by generalizing across individuals. Recent research …

Construction of embedded fMRI resting-state functional connectivity networks using manifold learning

IK Gallos, E Galaris, CI Siettos - Cognitive neurodynamics, 2021 - Springer
We construct embedded functional connectivity networks (FCN) from benchmark resting-
state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) data acquired from patients with …