TY - JOUR T1 - Decoding of generic mental representations from functional MRI data using word embeddings JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/057216 SP - 057216 AU - Francisco Pereira AU - Bin Lou AU - Brianna Pritchett AU - Nancy Kanwisher AU - Matthew Botvinick AU - Evelina Fedorenko Y1 - 2016/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/06/07/057216.abstract N2 - Several different groups have demonstrated the feasibility of building forward models of functional MRI data in response to concrete stimuli such as pictures or video, and of using these models to decode or reconstruct stimuli shown while acquiring test fMRI data. In this paper, we introduce an approach for building forward models of conceptual stimuli, concrete or abstract, and for using these models to carry out decoding of semantic information from new imaging data. We show that this approach generalizes to topics not seen in training, and provides a straightforward path to decoding from more complex stimuli such as sentences or paragraphs. ER -