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ANNUAL REVIEW OF PSYCHOLOGY, VOL 63
Volume 63, Issue -, Pages 483-509Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100412
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fMRI; multivoxel pattern analysis; MVPA
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- NEI NIH HHS [R01 EY017082, R01EY017082] Funding Source: Medline
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Considerable information about mental states can be decoded from noninvasive measures of human brain activity. Analyses of brain activity pattern S can reveal what a person is seeing, perceiving, attending to, or remembering. Moreover, multidimensional models can be used to investigate how the brain encodes complex visual scenes or abstract semantic information. Such feats of brain reading or mind reading, though impressive, raise important conceptual, methodological, and ethical issues. What does successful decoding reveal about the cognitive functions performed by a brain region? How should brain signals be spatially selected and mathematically combined, to ensure that decoding reflects inherent computations of the brain rather than those performed by the decoder? We highlight recent advances and describe how multivoxel pattern analysis can provide a window into mind-brain relationships with unprecedented specificity, when carefully applied. However, as brain-reading technology advances, issues of neuroethics and mental,privacy will be important to consider.
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