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ArticleNeuroinformatics2022

A Computational Neural Model for Mapping Degenerate Neural Architectures.

Zulqarnain Khan, Yiyu Wang, Eli Sennesh, Jennifer Dy, Sarah Ostadabbas, Jan-Willem van de Meent, J Benjamin Hutchinson, Ajay B Satpute

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Article in Neuroinformatics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  1. Neural Predictors of Fear Depend on the Situation.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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Zulqarnain Khan *Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, 02115, MA, USA. khanzu@ece.neu.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6945-5052
Yiyu Wang *Department of Psychology, College of Science, Northeastern University, Boston, 02115, MA, USA. wang.yiyu@northeastern.edu.
Eli SenneshKhoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, 02115, MA, USA.
Jennifer DyDepartment of Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, 02115, MA, USA.
Sarah OstadabbasDepartment of Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, 02115, MA, USA.
Jan-Willem van de MeentKhoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, 02115, MA, USA.
J Benjamin HutchinsonDepartment of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, 97403, OR, USA.
Ajay B SatputeDepartment of Psychology, College of Science, Northeastern University, Boston, 02115, MA, USA.

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Abstract

Degeneracy in biological systems refers to a many-to-one mapping between physical structures and their functional (including psychological) outcomes. Despite the ubiquity of the phenomenon, traditional analytical tools for modeling degeneracy in neuroscience are extremely limited. In this study, we generated synthetic datasets to describe three situations of degeneracy in fMRI data to demonstrate the limitations of the current univariate approach. We describe a novel computational approach for the analysis referred to as neural topographic factor analysis (NTFA). NTFA is designed to capture variations in neural activity across task conditions and participants. The advantage of this discovery-oriented approach is to reveal whether and how experimental trials and participants cluster into task conditions and participant groups. We applied NTFA on simulated data, revealing the appropriate degeneracy assumption in all three situations and demonstrating NTFA's utility in uncovering degeneracy. Lastly, we discussed the importance of testing degeneracy in fMRI data and the implications of applying NTFA to do so.

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