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courses:rg:predicting_human_brain_activity_associated_with_the_meanings_of_nouns [2011/09/11 02:19] ufal |
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* they measured brain activation of 9 participants after being exposed to all 60 word - picture combinations | * they measured brain activation of 9 participants after being exposed to all 60 word - picture combinations | ||
* evaluation | * evaluation | ||
- | * they carried out " | + | * they carried out " |
* 58 of them served as a training data | * 58 of them served as a training data | ||
* for two of them fMRI images were predicted and compared with observed images. On the basis of cosine similarity measure a matching was determined. If the predicted image for the first word matches with its corresponding observed image, one positive point is scored - aggregated over all folds, it forms an accuracy measure | * for two of them fMRI images were predicted and compared with observed images. On the basis of cosine similarity measure a matching was determined. If the predicted image for the first word matches with its corresponding observed image, one positive point is scored - aggregated over all folds, it forms an accuracy measure | ||
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- | + | * quantitative measurment | |
- | ===== Suggested Additional Reading ===== | + | * matching two unseen words to their seen fMRI images |
- | + | * 0.77 averaged over all 9 participants - significantly above a chance level | |
+ | * higher activation tends to be predicted in the left hemisphere - it is consistent with the generally held view that left hemisphere is more responsible for semantic representation than the right one | ||
+ | * prediction for a word in a new semantic category | ||
+ | * in training stage, they excluded all examples from the same semantic category as either of the two tested words | ||
+ | * 0.70 averaged over all 9 participants - still above the chance level | ||
+ | * prediction, when two tested words belong to the same category | ||
+ | * hard to distinguish | ||
+ | * 0.62 averaged over all participants - slightly above the chance level | ||
+ | * ability to distinguish in even more diverse range of words | ||
+ | * model trained on 59 examples and tested on a remaining example + another 1000 highly frequent words | ||
+ | * it ranked predicted fMRI images for 1001 words with respect to its similarity to observed fMRI image of the testing example | ||
+ | * 0.72 over 9 participants | ||
+ | * | ||