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Bridging LSTM Architecture and the Neural Dynamics during Reading

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Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pages 1953-1958.

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Recently, the long short-term memory neural network (LSTM) has attracted wide interest due to its success in many tasks. LSTM architecture consists of a memory cell and three gates, which looks similar to the neuronal networks in the brain. However, there still lacks the evidence of the cognitive plausibility of LSTM architecture as well as its working mechanism.In this paper, we study the cognitive plausibility of LSTM by aligning its internal architecture with the brain activity observed via fMRI when the subjects read a story. Experiment results show that the artificial memory vector in LSTM can accurately predict the observed sequential brain activities, indicating the correlation between LSTM architecture and the cognitive process of story reading.

Peng Qian, Xipeng Qiu, and Xuanjing Huang. 2016. Bridging LSTM Architecture and the Neural Dynamics during Reading. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-16. IJCAI, 1953–1958. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2016/279
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