Aligning Brains and Minds
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Aligning Brains and Minds
In this issue of Neuron, Haxby and colleagues describe a new method for aligning functional brain activity patterns across participants. Their study demonstrates that objects are similarly represented across different brains, allowing for reliable classification of one person's brain activity based on another's.
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuron
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0896-6273
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.10.005