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How Neuroscientists Observe Brains Watching Movies

It’s a horribly written story in some regards (MAGNETS!) Nevertheless:

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Three members of the group each watched about two hours’ worth of short takes from various Hollywood movies. These data were used to train a separate encoding model for each voxel. The first part of the model consisted of a bank of neural filters. These filters are based on the cumulative research that has been conducted over two decades into the way nerve cells in the visual cortex in people and monkeys respond to seeing visual stimuli with varying positions, size, motion and speed. The second part of the model coupled these neuronal filters to the blood vasculature, describing how the neuronal activity is reflected in much slower fMRI signals.

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Gallant’s lab’s website:

gallantlab.org