Modality-independent decoding of semantic information from the human brain

• Published in: Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. 1991) Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 426 - 434
• Main Authors: Simanova, Irina, Hagoort, Peter, Oostenveld, Robert, van Gerven, Marcel A J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.02.2014
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Auditory Perception - physiology; Brain - physiology; Brain Mapping - methods; Female; Humans; Imagination - physiology; Judgment - physiology; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Mental Recall - physiology; Names; Reading; Semantics; Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; Speech Perception - physiology; Support Vector Machine; Visual Perception - physiology; Young Adult; searchlight; multivoxel pattern analysis; semantics; amodal; FMRI

An ability to decode semantic information from fMRI spatial patterns has been demonstrated in previous studies mostly for 1 specific input modality. In this study, we aimed to decode semantic category independent of the modality in which an object was presented. Using a searchlight method, we were a...