Encoding and Decoding fMRI during film watching

Background

While human brain decoding and encoding for simple images have been explored here we propose to study human brain decoding and encoding during naturalistic stimuli i.e film watching. First analyses have shown promising results. The goal of this project is to better understand its neurological mechanisms in fMRI.

Project description

This is a semester project/lab immersion. It is predominantly computational but require basic understanding of neuroscience or motivation to learn.

Requirements    

  • The applicants are expected to have good skills in programming. Python is preferred.
  • Basic knowledge of ML and DL and is comfortable in modifying architecture.
  • A plus if applicant can travel to Geneva 1 day per week.

Please contact Michael Chan (chunheimichael.chan@epfl.ch) with your CV and we’ll get back to you with more details about this project.

References

G. Kupershmidt, R. Beliy, G. Gaziv, and M. Irani, “A penny for your (visual) thoughts: Self-supervised recon- struction of natural movies from brain activity,” arXiv, vol. 2206.03544, 2022