Latest AI Trends: ECG, Facial Expression Recognition, and Timescale Learning
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心臓と脳のつながりを解明：認知パフォーマンスにおけるECGの分析
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This research investigates whether ECG signals, readily available through wearable devices, can reliably reflect cognitive load. Utilizing a cross-modal XGBoost framework, the study aims to project ECG features onto EEG-representative cognitive spaces, enabling workload inference using only ECG.
The results demonstrate that ECG-derived projections effectively capture variations in cognitive states and provide strong support for accurate classification. These findings underscore the potential of ECG as an interpretable, real-time, and wearable solution for everyday cognitive monitoring.
- Key Takeaway: ECG signals can be used to infer cognitive load, offering a wearable alternative to EEG for continuous monitoring.
- Author: Akshay Sasi, Malavika Pradeep, Nusaibah Farrukh, Rahul Venugopal, Elizabeth Sherly
島皮質の頭蓋内活動は、単一コンタクトレベルでの多様で混在する時間パターンを介して複数の顔表情を識別する
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This study recorded intracranial activity from the insula in human subjects performing a facial emotion recognition task using EEG data. The specificity of insular activity to expression categories was assessed by capturing both the shape and scale of event-related potentials (ERPs) and event-related spectral perturbations (ERSPs) across theta to high-gamma frequency ranges.
Insular activity successfully identified all investigated expressions, mediated by diverse ERP responses intermixed across the insula. In contrast, the fusiform face area exhibited convergent ERP responses across expressions and contacts. These findings elucidate the insula's neural mechanisms for facial emotion perception and suggest its potential role as a key hub for versatile cognitive and emotional functions by leveraging its heterogeneous response profiles.
- Key Takeaway: Insular cortex activity, characterized by diverse temporal patterns at the single-contact level, can identify multiple facial expressions, highlighting its role in versatile cognitive and emotional functions.
- Author: Yingyu Huang, Lisen Sui, Liying Zhan, Chaolun Wang, Zhihan Guo, Yanjuan Li, Xiang Wu
生物学的に制約されたスケール不変深層ネットワークにおける階層的時間受容野とゼロショット時間スケール汎化
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This study trained biologically constrained deep networks based on the principle that human cognition integrates information across nested timescales. In the scale-invariant hippocampal time cell-based model, SITHCon, a hierarchy of temporal receptive windows (TRWs) emerged naturally across layers.
Distilling these findings into a biologically plausible recurrent architecture, SITH-RNN, revealed that it learned faster with orders-of-magnitude fewer parameters and demonstrated zero-shot generalization to out-of-distribution timescales. These results suggest that the brain employs scale-invariant, sequential priors to encode 'what' happened 'when', making recurrent networks with such priors particularly well-suited to describe human cognition.
- Key Takeaway: Scale-invariant recurrent neural networks with hierarchical temporal receptive windows exhibit faster learning and zero-shot generalization to different timescales, suggesting a biologically plausible model for cognitive processing.
- Author: Aakash Sarkar, Marc W. Howard
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