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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Functional MRI (fMRI) offers high spatial resolution for brain signal analysis.
  • Visual cognitive processes and semantic information can be investigated using fMRI data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore brain visual perception processes using fMRI.
  • To develop a model for extracting high-level semantic information and causal relationships from brain signals.

Main Methods:

  • Designed single- and double-graphic visual stimulus experiments with 12 subjects' fMRI data.
  • Developed a model to screen matching-related voxels and performed Bayesian causal learning using transfer entropy.
  • Established a hierarchical Bayesian causal network (HBcausalNet) for visual cortex analysis and image reconstruction.

Main Results:

  • HBcausalNet achieved 70.57% accuracy in single-graphic and 53.70% in double-graphic stimulus reconstruction.
  • The method successfully extracted 'matching' information and established causal relationships between semantic information and fMRI signals.
  • Demonstrated higher accuracy compared to HcorrNet and HcasaulNet in reconstruction tasks.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method effectively extracts high-level semantic information from brain signals.
  • The study models effective connections and visual perception processes within the visual cortex.
  • This approach advances causal inference understanding in the human brain.