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Synthetic-Neuroscore: Using A Neuro-AI Interface for Evaluating Generative Adversarial Networks
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are increasingly attracting attention
in the computer vision, natural language processing, speech synthesis and
similar domains. Arguably the most striking results have been in the area of
image synthesis. However, evaluating the performance of GANs is still an open
and challenging problem. Existing evaluation metrics primarily measure the
dissimilarity between real and generated images using automated statistical
methods. They often require large sample sizes for evaluation and do not
directly reflect human perception of image quality. In this work, we describe
an evaluation metric we call Neuroscore, for evaluating the performance of
GANs, that more directly reflects psychoperceptual image quality through the
utilization of brain signals. Our results show that Neuroscore has superior
performance to the current evaluation metrics in that: (1) It is more
consistent with human judgment; (2) The evaluation process needs much smaller
numbers of samples; and (3) It is able to rank the quality of images on a per
GAN basis. A convolutional neural network (CNN) based neuro-AI interface is
proposed to predict Neuroscore from GAN-generated images directly without the
need for neural responses. Importantly, we show that including neural responses
during the training phase of the network can significantly improve the
prediction capability of the proposed model. Materials related to this work are
provided at https://github.com/villawang/Neuro-AI-Interface
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Learning and Production of Movement Sequences: Behavioral, Neurophysiological, and Modeling Perspectives
A growing wave of behavioral studies, using a wide variety of paradigms that were introduced or greatly refined in recent years, has generated a new wealth of parametric observations about serial order behavior. What was a mere trickle of neurophysiological studies has grown to a more steady stream of probes of neural sites and mechanisms underlying sequential behavior. Moreover, simulation models of serial behavior generation have begun to open a channel to link cellular dynamics with cognitive and behavioral dynamics. Here we summarize the major results from prominent sequence learning and performance tasks, namely immediate serial recall, typing, 2XN, discrete sequence production, and serial reaction time. These populate a continuum from higher to lower degrees of internal control of sequential organization. The main movement classes covered are speech and keypressing, both involving small amplitude movements that are very amenable to parametric study. A brief synopsis of classes of serial order models, vis-à-vis the detailing of major effects found in the behavioral data, leads to a focus on competitive queuing (CQ) models. Recently, the many behavioral predictive successes of CQ models have been joined by successful prediction of distinctively patterend electrophysiological recordings in prefrontal cortex, wherein parallel activation dynamics of multiple neural ensembles strikingly matches the parallel dynamics predicted by CQ theory. An extended CQ simulation model-the N-STREAMS neural network model-is then examined to highlight issues in ongoing attemptes to accomodate a broader range of behavioral and neurophysiological data within a CQ-consistent theory. Important contemporary issues such as the nature of working memory representations for sequential behavior, and the development and role of chunks in hierarchial control are prominent throughout.Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency/Office of Naval Research (N00014-95-1-0409); National Institute of Mental Health (R01 DC02852
Human scalp potentials reflect a mixture of decision-related signals during perceptual choices
Single-unit animal studies have consistently reported decision-related activity mirroring a process of temporal accumulation of sensory evidence to a fixed internal decision boundary. To date, our understanding of how response patterns seen in single-unit data manifest themselves at the macroscopic level of brain activity obtained from human neuroimaging data remains limited. Here, we use single-trial analysis of human electroencephalography data to show that population responses on the scalp can capture choice-predictive activity that builds up gradually over time with a rate proportional to the amount of sensory evidence, consistent with the properties of a drift-diffusion-like process as characterized by computational modeling. Interestingly, at time of choice, scalp potentials continue to appear parametrically modulated by the amount of sensory evidence rather than converging to a fixed decision boundary as predicted by our model. We show that trial-to-trial fluctuations in these response-locked signals exert independent leverage on behavior compared with the rate of evidence accumulation earlier in the trial. These results suggest that in addition to accumulator signals, population responses on the scalp reflect the influence of other decision-related signals that continue to covary with the amount of evidence at time of choice
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