Six PCs explain significantly more variance in one out of seven subjects, five PCs in two subjects, four PCs in three subjects, and three PCs in one subject. Hollow markers indicate subject or group PCs that explain significantly more variance than the corresponding stimulus PCs ( p<0.001, bootstrap test). Confidence intervals for the subjects’ own PCs and group PCs are very small. (The Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm was used to re-order the group and stimulus PCs to maximize their correlation with the subject’s PCs.) Error bars indicate 99% confidence intervals. Orange lines show the amount of variance explained each subject’s own PCs, blue lines show the variance explained by the PCs of combined data from the other six subjects, and gray lines show the variance explained by the PCs of the stories. Here we show the amount of variance explained in the semantic model weights by each of the 20 most important PCs. To reduce noise, we used only the 10,000 best voxels in each subject, determined by cross-validation within the model estimation dataset. Principal components analysis (PCA) was used to discover the most important semantic dimensions from voxel-wise semantic model weights in each subject. As explained in the main text, these same regions have been previously identified as the “semantic system” in the human brain. The voxel-wise semantic models predict BOLD responses in many brain areas, including superior and inferior prefrontal cortex (SPFC, IPFC), lateral and ventral temporal cortex (LTC, VTC), and lateral and medial parietal cortex (LPC, MPC).
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(Right column) Prediction performance corrected to account for different amounts of noise in the BOLD responses (see Supplemental Methods for details). Note that the colormap here is scaled 0–1 rather than 0–0.6 as in the main text in order to match the scale of the adjusted prediction performance maps. (Left column) Raw prediction performance. Prediction performance was then computed as the correlation between predicted and measured BOLD responses. Models were tested using one 10-minute story that was not included during model estimation. This study demonstrates that data-driven methods-commonplace in studies of human neuroanatomy and functional connectivity-provide a powerful and efficient means for mapping functional representations in the brain.Ĭortical flatmaps showing prediction performance of voxel-wise semantic models for all seven subjects, formatted similarly to Figure 1C in the main text.
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Our results suggest that most areas within the semantic system represent information about specific semantic domains, or groups of related concepts, and our atlas shows which domains are represented in each area. We then use a novel generative model to create a detailed semantic atlas. We show that the semantic system is organized into intricate patterns that seem to be consistent across individuals. Here we systematically map semantic selectivity across the cortex using voxel-wise modelling of functional MRI (fMRI) data collected while subjects listened to hours of narrative stories. However, little of the semantic system has been mapped comprehensively, and the semantic selectivity of most regions is unknown.
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In contrast to the people pioneering the field and many scientists since, the project has at its hand a range of methods exploring various aspects of each brain area.The meaning of language is represented in regions of the cerebral cortex collectively known as the 'semantic system'. The new study used an entirely different approach, made possible by the efforts of The Human Connectome Project - a large consortium of scientists from Washington University, University of Minnesota, and Oxford University in the U.K.
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These studies were equally limited, looking at a particular aspect of one brain region at a time, such as the organization of neurons in postmortem tissue or the brain blood flow (where increased blood flow suggests an area is active) of a person during a particular task. Until a few weeks ago, this brain map had been only modestly improved with the addition of findings from research teams. In 1907, a brain scientist called Korbinian Brodmann took on a somewhat more ambitious approach, publishing a brain map of 52 hand-drawn regions, based on observations made during long hours at a microscope, where he mapped differences in how cells were organized.