… Considerable information about mental states can be decoded from noninvasive measures
of human brain activity. Analyses of brain activity patterns can reveal what a person is seeing…

… Initial studies have focussed on investigating whether patterns of brain activity observed
previously using experimental stimuli are mirrored during naturalistic tasks. However, it is also …

… brain, even when we do not necessarily know what that format is. So, (v) if we can decode
information from patterns of activity … the hypothesis that the patterns represent the information. …

… decoded by measuring population activity in the brain. We will review studies that have decoded
population activity … the complexity of the human brain and particularly cognitive functions…

… The goal of the decoding analysis is to test whether we can … patterns of brain activation. If
the experimental stimuli can be successfully “decoded” from the participant's patterns of brain …

… In this study a clear di®erence is found in the brain activity during … decoding has been
summarized in Table 1. Natural images were identied from the pattern of human brain activity (Kay …

… ] decoded responses for individual words as a function of semantic similarity, based on the
global patterns evoked across the entire brain by … We attempted to decode individual number …

… ) pattern recognition techniques that we can also decode movement intentions from human
brain … , the spatial activity patterns in multiple parietal and premotor brain areas accurately …

… “decode” brain activity in an open-ended way, enabling researchers to draw tentative
conclusions about mental function on the basis of virtually any pattern of whole-brain activity. We …

… and decoding algorithms show that brain activity patterns can be … This innovation affords
predictions of patterns of brain … It also affords reconstruction of stimuli from brain activity patterns …