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Kalyan Tripathy^1,2,3, Zachary E Markow^2,4, Morgan Fogarty^2,5

¹Washington University in St. Louis, Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

|January 24, 2025

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High-density diffuse optical tomography (HD-DOT) successfully decodes complex audiovisual information from brain activity. This technology enables naturalistic research and applications, advancing neuroscience and clinical insights.

Keywords:

decoding functional near-infrared spectroscopy high-density diffuse optical tomography naturalistic speech naturalistic viewing neuroimaging

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Biomedical Engineering
Signal Processing

Background:

Decoding naturalistic content from brain activity holds significant neuroscience and clinical potential.
Existing methods like fMRI and electrocorticography are limited by logistical constraints.
High-density diffuse optical tomography (HD-DOT) offers comparable image quality to fMRI in a more accessible format.

Purpose of the Study:

To establish the feasibility of decoding naturalistic auditory and multisensory stimuli using HD-DOT.
To evaluate the performance of HD-DOT in decoding complex audiovisual information from brain activity.
To investigate the impact of parameters like trial duration and number of choices on decoding accuracy.

Main Methods:

Utilized HD-DOT data from participants viewing movie clips.
Employed a template-matching strategy for decoding audiovisual stimuli.
Systematically analyzed factors influencing decoding performance, including trial duration and decoding choices.

Main Results:

Achieved 94.2% decoding accuracy for four-way classification with 4-minute trials.
Maintained significant above-chance decoding performance with 15-second trials and up to 32 choices.
Obtained comparable accuracies when focusing cortical sampling on visual and auditory regions, and with unimodal stimuli.

Conclusions:

HD-DOT data possesses sufficient resolution for decoding complex, naturalistic, multisensory stimuli.
Template matching is a viable strategy for audiovisual decoding with HD-DOT.
These findings support future research into advanced decoding algorithms for reconstructing complex naturalistic stimuli.