ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2021
What to Believe? Impact of Knowledge and Message Length on Neural Activity in Message Credibility Evaluation.
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- Recurrent and convolutional neural networks in classification of EEG signal for guided imagery and mental workload detection.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Message development for a communication campaign to support health warning labels on cigars: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Investigating brain cortical activity in patients with post-COVID-19 brain fog.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Modeling and Comparing Brain Processes in Message and Earned Source Credibility Evaluation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Understanding how humans evaluate credibility is an important scientific question in the era of fake news. Message credibility is among crucial aspects of credibility evaluations. One of the most direct ways to understand message credibility is to use measurements of brain activity of humans performing credibility evaluations. Nevertheless, message credibility has never been investigated using such a method before. This article reports the results of an experiment during which we have measured brain activity during message credibility evaluation, using EEG. The experiment allowed for identification of brain areas that were active when participant made positive or negative message credibility evaluations. Based on experimental data, we modeled and predicted human message credibility evaluations using EEG brain activity measurements with F1 score exceeding 0.7.
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