Reliability of cortical activity during natural stimulation

By Uri Hasson, Rafael Malach, David J. Heeger. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2009

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Response reliability is complementary to more conventional measurements of response amplitudes, and can reveal phenomena that response amplitudes do not. Here we review studies that measured reliability of cortical activity within or between human subjects in response to naturalistic stimulation (e.g., free viewing of movies). Despite the seemingly uncontrolled nature of the task, some of these complex stimuli evoke highly reliable, selective, and time-locked activity in many brain areas, including some brain regions that often do not show much response modulation with conventional experimental protocols. This activity provides an opportunity to address novel questions concerning natural vision, temporal scale of processing, memory, and the neural basis of inter-group differences.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience

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Data-Efficient Mutual Information Neural Estimator (2019, methodology): “al averaging, ISC analyses are particularly well-suited to continuous, naturalistic paradigms, as they do not require an explicit model of the stimulus and are sensitive to evolving narrative context [26, 6]. However, Pearson correlation only captures the linear association between voxel-wise respon”
The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) data repository: Structural and functional MRI, MEG, and cognitive data from a cross-sectional adult lifespan sample (2017, neutral): “The film was edited from its original running time of 30 min down to 8 min while maintaining the essential plot (Hasson et al., 2010).”
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The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) study protocol: a cross-sectional, lifespan, multidisciplinary examination of healthy cognitive ageing (2014, methodology): “A black-and-white television drama previously used in an fMRI study [60], Alfred Hitchcock’s “Bang! You’re Dead”, was edited from a running time of 30 minutes to 8 minutes, while maintaining the plot.”
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Inscapes: a movie paradigm to improve compliance in functional magnetic resonance imaging (2015, background): “Movies as fMRI stimuli have been studied extensively (for reviews see Spiers and Maguire, 2007, and Hasson et al., 2010).”
DECAF: MEG-Based Multimodal Database for Decoding Affective Physiological Responses (2015, methodology): “Recently, cognition-based approaches employing imaging modalities such as fMRI and EEG to map brain signals with the induced affect [11], [15], [31] have gained in popularity, and brain signals encode emotional information complementary to multimedia and peripheral physiological signals, thereby enh”
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