2018年03月16日　　Friday Lunch Seminar
12:15 〜 13:00

CiNet　1F　Conference Room

“Decoding phantom hand movement / semantic space of visual stimulus”

福間良平

大阪大学大学院医学系研究科　脳神経外科
特任研究員（常勤）

担当PI : 中江 文

Abstract:

In this talk, I deliver a presentation about following two topics from my recent work. (1) Phantom movement of a paralyzed hand is clinically important, but the biomarker representing the subjective mobility of the phantom hand remains unclear. Our previous study suggested that the accuracy of movement decoding using sensorimotor cortical potentials measured by electrocorticogram (ECoG) was higher for paralyzed patients who were able to move the phantom hand easily than those who were not able to move the phantom hand subjectively. Here, we hypothesized that the decoding accuracy of phantom movements of a paralyzed hand using magnetoencephalogram represents the subjective mobility of the phantom hand. The hand posture (grasp or open) was inferred by decoding using estimated cortical potential in the sensorimotor cortices contralateral to the phantom hand. The decoding accuracy was negatively correlated with the time needed to grasp and open the phantom hand. (2) Recent studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have enabled quantitative evaluation of the semantic space during processing of visual stimuli. In the semantic space of the natural language processing model Word2Vec, decoders were shown to generalize to natural scenes of a movie that were not included in the training data of the decoders. Combined with ECoG, which has a higher sampling rate than fMRI, this approach is expected to aid in development of a practical brain-machine interface. Here, we decoded vector representations of scenes within the Word2Vec semantic space to assess whether a decoder trained using ECoG features still generalizes to words new to the decoder.

About CiNet’s Friday Lunch Seminars:
The Friday Lunch Seminar is CiNet’s main regular meeting series, held every week at 12:15 in the beautiful main lecture theatre on the ground floor at CiNet. The talks are typically 40mins long and orientated towards an inter-disciplinary audience. They are informal, social, and most people bring their own lunch to eat during the talk. They are open to anyone who is feeling curious and wants to come, regardless of where you work.