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Joyneel Misra1, Srinivas Govinda Surampudi1, Manasij Venkatesh1
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Area of Science:
- Neuroscience
- Computational Neuroscience
- Machine Learning
Background:
- Cognitive, emotional, and motor functions rely on complex interactions within brain signals.
- Understanding these multivariate brain dynamics is crucial for decoding neural activity.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose and validate a recurrent neural network architecture for uncovering distributed spatiotemporal signatures in brain dynamics.
- To decode brain activity during naturalistic conditions like movie watching and experimental paradigms.
Main Methods:
- Utilized functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data from human participants.
- Developed a recurrent neural network model to learn spatiotemporal patterns from fMRI signals.
- Employed dimensionality reduction, saliency maps, and lesion analysis for interpretation.
Main Results:
- Achieved high accuracy (∼90%) in 15-way movie-clip classification at the brain region level.
- Successfully performed binary classification of experimental conditions (∼60%) at the voxel level.
- Modeled individual differences in fluid intelligence and verbal IQ, comparable to existing methods.
Conclusions:
- The proposed framework effectively decodes dynamic, spatially distributed brain representations.
- It offers a novel method for visualizing and analyzing neural dynamics during naturalistic tasks.
- This approach advances the understanding of how brain activity underlies complex cognitive functions.