PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Thomas P. O’Connell
AU  - Marvin M. Chun
AU  - Gabriel Kreiman
TI  - Zero-shot neural decoding of visual categories without prior exemplars
AID  - 10.1101/700344
DP  - 2019 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 700344
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/07/16/700344.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/07/16/700344.full
AB  - Decoding information from neural responses in visual cortex demonstrates interpolation across repetitions or exemplars. Is it possible to decode novel categories from neural activity without any prior training on activity from those categories? We built zero-shot neural decoders by mapping responses from macaque inferior temporal cortex onto a deep neural network. The resulting models correctly interpreted responses to novel categories, even extrapolating from a single category.