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主  题：Modeling Brain Dynamics of Human Cognition using Graphs: Graph Laplacian and Graph Convolutional Networks

报告人：张瑜，蒙特利尔大学博士后

时  间：2020年9月18日（周五）上午10:00

地  点：华家池脑影像科学技术中心会议室

邀请人：何宏建副教授

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生仪学院

2020年9月17日

报告内容简介：

A key goal in neuroscience is to understand brain mechanisms of cognitive functions. An emerging approach is “brain decoding”, which consists of inferring a set of experimental conditions performed by a participant, using pattern classification of brain activity. Few works so far have attempted to train a brain decoding model that would generalize across many different cognitive tasks drawn from multiple cognitive domains. To tackle this problem, we proposed a domain-general brain decoder that automatically learns the spatiotemporal dynamics of brain response within a short time window using a deep learning approach. We evaluated the decoding model on a large population of 1200 participants, under 21 different experimental conditions spanning 6 different cognitive domains, acquired from the Human Connectome Project task-fMRI database. Using a 10s window of fMRI response, the 21 cognitive states were identified with a test accuracy of 89% (chance level 4.8%). Performance remained good when using a 6s window (82%). It was even feasible to decode cognitive states from a single fMRI volume (720ms), with the performance following the shape of the hemodynamic response. Moreover, a saliency map analysis demonstrated that the high decoding performance was driven by the response of biologically meaningful brain regions. Together, we provide an automated tool to annotate human brain activity with fine temporal resolution and fine cognitive granularity. Our model shows potential applications as a reference model for domain adaptation, possibly making contributions in a variety of domains, including neurological and psychiatric disorders.