Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Decoding individual identity from brain activity elicited in imagining common experiences

  • Andrew James Anderson,
  • Kelsey McDermott,
  • Brian Rooks,
  • Kathi L. Heffner,
  • David Dodell-Feder,
  • Feng V. Lin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19630-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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When asked to imagine an event such as a party, individuals will vary in their mental imagery based on their specific experience of parties. Here, the authors show that such signatures of personal experience can be read from brain activity elicited as events are imagined.