{"id":2010,"date":"2026-02-25T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.osaka-u.ac.jp\/pub\/bci\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T03:02:21","slug":"january-3-ms-vafaeis-paper-has-been-published-in-communications-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.osaka-u.ac.jp\/pub\/bci\/archives\/2010","title":{"rendered":"January 3, Ms. Vafaei\u2019s paper has been published in Communications Biology."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>We are pleased to announce that a paper by Ms. Shirin Vafaei, a fifth-year PhD student in our lab, was published in Communications Biology on January 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Title of the paper: Brain-aligning of semantic vectors improves neural decoding of visual stimuli<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42003-025-09482-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brain-aligning of semantic vectors improves neural decoding of visual stimuli<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In brain decoding, which aims to predict stimuli from neural activity, conventional image- and text-based feature vectors are misaligned with neural representations, leading to reduced accuracy.<br data-start=\"274\" data-end=\"277\" \/>In this study, we propose \u201cbrain-aligned vectors,\u201d which fine-tune these feature vectors to better match the structure of neural representations.<br data-start=\"422\" data-end=\"425\" \/>Moreover, this method, trained on fMRI data, improved decoding accuracy across fMRI, MEG, and ECoG datasets.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"424\" data-end=\"452\">Congratulations, Ms. <span>Vafaei<\/span>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We are pleased to announce that a paper by Ms. Shirin Vafaei, a fifth-year PhD student in our lab, was publish [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news_en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.osaka-u.ac.jp\/pub\/bci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.osaka-u.ac.jp\/pub\/bci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.osaka-u.ac.jp\/pub\/bci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.osaka-u.ac.jp\/pub\/bci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.osaka-u.ac.jp\/pub\/bci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.osaka-u.ac.jp\/pub\/bci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.osaka-u.ac.jp\/pub\/bci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.osaka-u.ac.jp\/pub\/bci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.osaka-u.ac.jp\/pub\/bci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.osaka-u.ac.jp\/pub\/bci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}