Review for NeurIPS paper: Modeling Task Effects on Meaning Representation in the Brain via Zero-Shot MEG Prediction

Understanding how the tasks that we perform while perceiving a stimulus modulate brain activity is of wide interest to neuroscience. Reviewers found the experimental setup interesting, with the clear hypotheses about how tasks can impact neural activity. The small effect sizes observed were identified as a key limitation in drawing conclusions from this experiment. Reviewers found this worrisome particularly when coupled with marginal accuracies and few subjects. Reviewers identified that BERT results were not very conclusive, and significantly more could be done.