BI 156 Mariam Aly: Memory, Attention, and Perception
Brain Inspired
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Increasing the Activity of Your Brain to Salient Features
Stability is related to the second aspect that you talked about of looking at multi-voxel patterns. And so the idea behind stability is just how similar are those patterns across different instances. The old way of doing FMRI, which is currently still in use, is to look at some area and say, does it have signatures of higher oxygen nation levels there? That must mean it's more active and you're using that area more. But now we can compare like the patterns of this wide array of voxels of areas in the brain and then differentiate cognitive functions based on those patterns.
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