Neural Language Taskonomy: Which NLP Tasks are the most Predictive of fMRI Brain Activity? (2022.naacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing literature has focused on pretrainer-based text-driven brain encoding models . however, few studies have explored the efficacy of task-specific learning of Transformers . |
| Approach: | They propose to use ten popular natural language processing tasks to learn Transformer representations for predicting brain responses. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model predicts brain activity across the whole brain. |
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