The Spatio-Temporal Representation of Natural Reading

We set out to challenge the understanding that it is difficult My work is an integrated interdisciplinary effort which employs to study the complex processing of natural stories. We used functional neuroimaging, and revolves around the development functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to record the of machine learning methods to uncover multilayer brain activity of subjects while they read an unmodified chapter cognitive processes from brain activity recordings. of a popular book. Unprecedently, we modeled the measured Studying how the human brain represents meaning is not brain activity as a function of the content of the text only important for expanding our scientific knowledge of the being read Wehbe et al. [2014a]. Our model is able to extrapolate brain and of intelligence. By mapping behavioral traits to differences to predict brain activity for novel passages of text - in brain representations, we increase our understanding beyond those on which it has been trained.