Visual Decoding
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Decoding Natural Behavior from Neuroethological Embedding
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2025
This protocol gives an integrated framework based on advanced computational neuroethological methods to understand brain coding in naturalistic contexts.
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Decoding Auditory Imagery with Multivoxel Pattern Analysis
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Jonas T. Kaplan and Sarah I. Gimbel—University of Southern California Imagine the sound of a bell ringing. What is happening in the brain when we conjure up a sound like this in the "mind's ear?" There is growing evidence that the brain uses the same mechanisms for imagination that it uses for perception.1 For example, when imagining visual images, the visual cortex becomes activated, and when imagining sounds, the auditory cortex is engaged. However, to what extent are...
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A Novel Experimental and Analytical Approach to the Multimodal Neural Decoding of Intent During Social Interaction in Freely-behaving Human Infants
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2015
This protocol presents a novel methodology for the neural decoding of intent from freely-behaving infants during unscripted social interaction with an actor. Neural activity is acquired using non-invasive high-density active scalp electroencephalography (EEG). Kinematic data is collected with inertial measurement units and supplemented with synchronized video recording.
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Decomposing the Variance in Reading Comprehension to Reveal the Unique and Common Effects of Language and Decoding
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2018
Here we present a protocol for decomposing the variance in reading comprehension into the unique and common effects of language and decoding.
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Methods to Test Visual Attention Online
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2015
To replicate laboratory settings, online data collection methods for visual tasks require tight control over stimulus presentation. We outline methods for the use of a web application to collect performance data on two tests of visual attention.
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A computational model or classifier examines the correspondence between recorded neural patterns and visual properties represented in the experiment. It can then use a new activity pattern to estimate whether the associated information concerns shape, color, location, or motion. This makes the analysis a test of what visual information is present in brain responses.
By evaluating activity patterns across visual cortex, researchers can examine how information is represented across neural responses rather than focusing only on an isolated measurement. These patterns help determine whether neural activity distinguishes particular stimulus features and connect measurable brain signals with theories of sensory representation.
Decoding shape, color, location, or motion addresses different aspects of visual processing. Decoding perceptual states instead focuses on neural activity associated with visual experience. Comparing these targets helps researchers determine which features or states are reflected in recorded responses and supports more precise tests of how sensory information is represented.
Researchers record neural activity associated with visual stimuli or perceptual states, identify the visual properties relevant to the experiment, and relate the recorded patterns to those properties with a computational model or classifier. They can then compare the resulting estimates across conditions to evaluate how neural responses represent the selected feature or state.
Researchers make these comparisons when they want to test whether sensory representations differ between conditions or examine how perception emerges from neural activity. Decoding provides an analytical basis for asking whether the relationship between recorded responses and visual features changes. This extends the approach beyond identifying content to testing theories about representation and perceptual processing.
In brain-computer interface and neural prosthetic research, decoding identifies visual information present in brain signals. That information can inform efforts to connect neural activity with an external system or prosthetic design. The approach also supports studies of visual disorders by revealing what visual information is encoded in the brain in those research contexts.