A continuous semantic space describes the representation of thousands of object and action categories across the human brain. Huth, A. G, Nishimoto, S., Vu, A. T, & Gallant, J. L Neuron, 76(6):1210–1224, 2012. Place: United States ISBN: 1097-4199doi abstract bibtex Humans can see and name thousands of distinct object and action categories, so it is unlikely that each category is represented in a distinct brain area. A more efficient scheme would be to represent categories as locations in a continuous semantic space mapped smoothly across the cortical surface. To search for such a space, we used fMRI to measure human brain activity evoked by natural movies. We then used voxelwise models to examine the cortical representation of 1,705 object and action categories. The first few dimensions of the underlying semantic space were recovered from the fit models by principal components analysis. Projection of the recovered semantic space onto cortical flat maps shows that semantic selectivity is organized into smooth gradients that cover much of visual and nonvisual cortex. Furthermore, both the recovered semantic space and the cortical organization of the space are shared across different individuals
@article{huth_continuous_2012,
title = {A continuous semantic space describes the representation of thousands of object and action categories across the human brain.},
volume = {76},
doi = {10.1016/j.neuron.2012.10.014},
abstract = {Humans can see and name thousands of distinct object and action categories, so it is unlikely that each category is represented in a distinct brain area. A more efficient scheme would be to represent categories as locations in a continuous semantic space mapped smoothly across the cortical surface. To search for such a space, we used fMRI to measure human brain activity evoked by natural movies. We then used voxelwise models to examine the cortical representation of 1,705 object and action categories. The first few dimensions of the underlying semantic space were recovered from the fit models by principal components analysis. Projection of the recovered semantic space onto cortical flat maps shows that semantic selectivity is organized into smooth gradients that cover much of visual and nonvisual cortex. Furthermore, both the recovered semantic space and the cortical organization of the space are shared across different individuals},
language = {eng},
number = {6},
journal = {Neuron},
author = {Huth, Alexander G and Nishimoto, Shinji and Vu, An T and Gallant, Jack L},
year = {2012},
pmid = {23259955},
note = {Place: United States
ISBN: 1097-4199},
keywords = {Adult, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Concept Formation, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Reference Values, Semantics, Verbal Behavior, research support, n.i.h., extramural, research support, non-u.s. gov't, research support, u.s. gov't, non-p.h.s.},
pages = {1210--1224},
}
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