Characterizing Dynamic Functional Connectivity Subnetwork Contributions in Narrative Classification with Shapley Values
Abstract
Functional connectivity derived from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(fMRI) data has been increasingly used to study brain activity. In this study, we
model brain dynamic functional connectivity during narrative tasks as a temporal
brain network and employ a machine learning model to classify in a supervised
setting the modality (audio, movie), the content (airport, restaurant situations) of
narratives, and both combined. Leveraging Shapley values, we analyze subnetwork
contributions within Yeo parcellations (7- and 17-subnetworks) to explore their
involvement in narrative modality and comprehension. This work represents the
first application of this approach to functional aspects of the brain, validated by
existing literature, and provides novel insights at the whole-brain level. Our findings
suggest that schematic representations in narratives may not depend solely on pre-
existing knowledge of the top-down process to guide perception and understanding,
but may also emerge from a bottom-up process driven by the ventral attention
subnetwork.
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