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Mapping cognitive ontologies to and from the brain

Abstract

Imaging neuroscience links brain activation maps to behavior and cognition via correlational studies. Due to the nature of the individual experiments, based on eliciting neural response from a small number of stimuli, this link is incomplete, and unidirectional from the causal point of view. To come to conclusions on the function implied by the activation of brain regions, it is necessary to combine a wide exploration of the various brain functions and some inversion of the statistical inference. Here we introduce a methodology for accumulating knowledge towards a bidirectional link between observed brain activity and the corresponding function. We rely on a large corpus of imaging studies and a predictive engine. Technically, the challenges are to find commonality between the studies without denaturing the richness of the corpus. The key elements that we contribute are labeling the tasks performed with a cognitive ontology, and modeling the long tail of rare paradigms in the corpus. To our knowledge, our approach is the first demonstration of predicting the cognitive content of completely new brain images. To that end, we propose a method that predicts the experimental paradigms across different studies.
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hal-00904763 , version 1 (15-11-2013)
hal-00904763 , version 2 (20-11-2013)

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Yannick Schwartz, Bertrand Thirion, Gaël Varoquaux. Mapping cognitive ontologies to and from the brain. NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems), Dec 2013, United States. ⟨hal-00904763v2⟩
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