Simultaneously uncovering the patterns of brain regions involved in different story reading subprocesses.

ABSTRACT: Story understanding involves many perceptual and cognitive subprocesses, from perceiving individual words, to parsing sentences, to understanding the relationships among the story characters. We present an integrated computational model of reading that incorporates these and additional subprocesses, simultaneously discovering their fMRI signatures. Our model predicts the fMRI activity associated with reading arbitrary text passages, well enough to distinguish which of two story segments is being read with 74% accuracy. This approach is the first to simultaneously track diverse reading subprocesses during complex story processing and predict the detailed neural representation of diverse story features, ranging from visual word properties to the mention of different story characters and diff

SUBMITTER: Wehbe L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4245107 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature