Using graph components derived from an associative concept dictionary to predict fMRI neural activation patterns that represent the meaning of nouns

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Akama, Hiroyuki ^a   Miyake, Maki ^b   Jung, Jaeyoung ^a   Murphy, Brian ^c,d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; EXTRACTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MACHINE LEARNING; MODEL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; SEMANTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84948661987     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125725     Document Type: Article

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