Reading List for Topics in Deep Learning for Brain Encoding and Decoding

By Subba Reddy Oota (subba-reddy.oota@inria.fr), Mnemosyne Team, Inria, at Bordeaux, Inria, France, and Brain Cognition and Computation Lab, at IIIT-Hyderabad, India. If there are any areas, papers, and datasets I missed, please let me know!

Recent Content

Visio-Linguistic Brain Encoding

Table of Contents

Research Papers

Survey Papers

When Computational Representation Meets Neuroscience: A Survey on Brain Encoding and Decoding, IJCAI 2021 Deep Neural Networks and Brain Alignment: Brain Encoding and Decoding (Survey)

Deep Learning for Brain Encoding and Decoding

Brain Encoding

Brain Encoding Survey Tree

Fig 9 in our survey paper Deep Neural Networks and Brain Alignment: Brain Encoding and Decoding (Survey).

Linguistic Encoding

  1. Instruction-tuning Aligns LLMs to the Human Brain preprint

    Khai Loong Aw, Syrielle Montariol, Badr AlKhamissi, Martin Schrimpf, and Antoine Bosselut. [PDF] Arxiv 2023,

Scaling laws for language encoding models in fMRI, NeurIPS 2023 [code]

Joint processing of linguistic properties in brains and language models, NeurIPS 2023 [code]

Training language models to summarize narratives improves brain alignment, ICLR 2023 [code]

Long-Term Plausibility of Language Models and Neural Dynamics during Narratives Listening, Cogsci 2022

Neural Language Taskonomy: Which NLP Tasks are the most Predictive of fMRI Brain Activity?, NAACL 2022

Can fMRI reveal the representation of syntactic structure in the brain?, NeurIPS 2021 [code]

CogniVal: A Framework for Cognitive Word Embedding Evaluation, CoNLL 2019 [code]

The neural architecture of language: Integrative reverse-engineering converges on a model for predictive processing, PNAS 2021 [code]

Disentangling Syntax and Semantics in the Brain with Deep Networks, ICML 2021 [slides]

Modeling task effects on meaning representation in the brain via zero-shot MEG prediction, NeurIPS 2020 [code], [slides]

Interpreting and improving natural-language processing (in machines) with natural language-processing (in the brain), NeurIPS 2019 [code]

Inducing brain-relevant bias in natural language processing models, NeurIPS 2019 [code]

Incorporating Context into Language Encoding Models for fMRI, NeurIPS 2018

Aligning context-based statistical models of language with brain activity during reading, EMNLP 2014

Visual Encoding

Brain-Like Object Recognition with High-Performing Shallow Recurrent ANNs, NeurIPS 2019

Neural Taskonomy: Inferring the Similarity of Task-Derived Representations from Brain Activity, NeurIPS 2019

Auditory Encoding

Speech language models lack important brain-relevant semantics Arxiv

Meg encoding using word context semantics in listening stories, Interspeech 2023 [code]

[Speech Taskonomy: Which Speech Tasks are the most Predictive of fMRI Brain Activity?], Interspeech 2023 [code]

Self-supervised models of audio effectively explain human cortical responses to speech, ICML 2022

The Hierarchical Cortical Organization of Human Speech Processing, Journal of Neuroscience 2016

Video Encoding

How the Human Brain Makes Sense of a World in Motion, CCN 2021 [code]

Multi-Modal Encoding

Brain encoding models based on multimodal transformers can transfer across language and vision, Arxiv 2023

Interpreting Multimodal Video Transformers Using Brain Recordings, ICLR 2023 (Multimodal Representation Learning Workshop)

Brain Decoding

Linguistic Decoding

Brain2Word: Decoding Brain Activity for Language Generation, [code]

Does injecting linguistic structure into language models lead to better alignment with brain recordings?), [code]

Linking artificial and human neural representations of language, EMNLP 2019, [code]

Towards sentence-level brain decoding with distributed representations, AAAI 2019

Toward a universal decoder of linguistic meaning from brain activation, Nature Communications 2018

Visual Decoding

From voxels to pixels and back: Self-supervision in natural-image reconstruction from fMRI, NeurIPS 2019 [code]

Reconstructing Perceived Images from Human Brain Activities with Bayesian Deep Multi-view Learning, IEEE TNNLS 2018

Auditory Decoding

Towards reconstructing intelligible speech from the human auditory cortex, Nature Scientific Reports 2019 [code]

Video Decoding

Decoding the Semantic Content of Natural Movies from Human Brain Activity, Frontiers 2016

Workshops

Tutorials

Deep Learning for Brain Encoding and Decoding, Subba Reddy Oota, Cogsci 2022 [code]

Encoding and Decoding Speech From the Human Brain, Edward Chang, ICML 2021

Slides

Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex

Courses

Datasets

Movies

UC Berkeley

Short Clips

Listening and Reading Same Stories

UC Berkeley

Listening Stories

Narratives

[The Moth Radio Hour]

Multi-Modal

Movies and Stories

Contribution

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Paper format:

1. **[paper title].** `[]`

    *[authors].* [[PDF]([pdf link])] [[Code]([code link])], published time, ![](https://img.shields.io/badge/[architecture]-blue) ![](https://img.shields.io/badge/[size]-red)

Citations

Please cite the following paper if you find the resource helpful for your research.

@article{oota2023deep,
  title={Deep Neural Networks and Brain Alignment: Brain Encoding and Decoding (Survey)},
  author={Oota, Subba Reddy and Gupta, Manish and Bapi, Raju S and Jobard, Gael and Alexandre, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and Hinaut, Xavier},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.10246},
  year={2023}
}