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Poster
A systematic approach to extracting semantic information from functional MRI data
Francisco Pereira · Matthew Botvinick

Tue Dec 04 07:00 PM -- 12:00 AM (PST) @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
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This paper introduces a novel classification method for functional magnetic resonance imaging datasets with tens of classes. The method is designed to make predictions using information from as many brain locations as possible, instead of resorting to feature selection, and does this by decomposing the pattern of brain activation into differently informative sub-regions. We provide results over a complex semantic processing dataset that show that the method is competitive with state-of-the-art feature selection and also suggest how the method may be used to perform group or exploratory analyses of complex class structure.

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Author Information

Francisco Pereira (National Institute of Mental Health)
Matthew Botvinick (Princeton University/ Google DeepMind)

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