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Stimulus Reconstruction from Cortical Responses

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Reconstruction is a technique used to recreate a stimulus from its corresponding neural responses. By projecting the cortical representation of stimulus in the neural space back to the physical domain where it is usually better understood, reconstruction provides a straightforward and direct method to study the stimulus features encoded by the population neural data. Reconstruction has also been used to decode the perceived or imagined stimuli from the measurements of brain activity.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Nima Mesgarani

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Mesgarani, N. (2014). Stimulus Reconstruction from Cortical Responses. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_108-1

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