Can Brain Signals Reveal Inner Alignment with Human Languages?

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Hauptverfasser: Han, William, Qiu, Jielin, Zhu, Jiacheng, Xu, Mengdi, Weber, Douglas, Li, Bo, Zhao, Ding
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author Han, William
Qiu, Jielin
Zhu, Jiacheng
Xu, Mengdi
Weber, Douglas
Li, Bo
Zhao, Ding
author_facet Han, William
Qiu, Jielin
Zhu, Jiacheng
Xu, Mengdi
Weber, Douglas
Li, Bo
Zhao, Ding
contents Brain Signals, such as Electroencephalography (EEG), and human languages have been widely explored independently for many downstream tasks, however, the connection between them has not been well explored. In this study, we explore the relationship and dependency between EEG and language. To study at the representation level, we introduced \textbf{MTAM}, a \textbf{M}ultimodal \textbf{T}ransformer \textbf{A}lignment \textbf{M}odel, to observe coordinated representations between the two modalities. We used various relationship alignment-seeking techniques, such as Canonical Correlation Analysis and Wasserstein Distance, as loss functions to transfigure features. On downstream applications, sentiment analysis and relation detection, we achieved new state-of-the-art results on two datasets, ZuCo and K-EmoCon. Our method achieved an F1-score improvement of 1.7% on K-EmoCon and 9.3% on Zuco datasets for sentiment analysis, and 7.4% on ZuCo for relation detection. In addition, we provide interpretations of the performance improvement: (1) feature distribution shows the effectiveness of the alignment module for discovering and encoding the relationship between EEG and language; (2) alignment weights show the influence of different language semantics as well as EEG frequency features; (3) brain topographical maps provide an intuitive demonstration of the connectivity in the brain regions. Our code is available at \url{https://github.com/Jason-Qiu/EEG_Language_Alignment}.
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spellingShingle Can Brain Signals Reveal Inner Alignment with Human Languages?
Han, William
Qiu, Jielin
Zhu, Jiacheng
Xu, Mengdi
Weber, Douglas
Li, Bo
Zhao, Ding
Neurons and Cognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Brain Signals, such as Electroencephalography (EEG), and human languages have been widely explored independently for many downstream tasks, however, the connection between them has not been well explored. In this study, we explore the relationship and dependency between EEG and language. To study at the representation level, we introduced \textbf{MTAM}, a \textbf{M}ultimodal \textbf{T}ransformer \textbf{A}lignment \textbf{M}odel, to observe coordinated representations between the two modalities. We used various relationship alignment-seeking techniques, such as Canonical Correlation Analysis and Wasserstein Distance, as loss functions to transfigure features. On downstream applications, sentiment analysis and relation detection, we achieved new state-of-the-art results on two datasets, ZuCo and K-EmoCon. Our method achieved an F1-score improvement of 1.7% on K-EmoCon and 9.3% on Zuco datasets for sentiment analysis, and 7.4% on ZuCo for relation detection. In addition, we provide interpretations of the performance improvement: (1) feature distribution shows the effectiveness of the alignment module for discovering and encoding the relationship between EEG and language; (2) alignment weights show the influence of different language semantics as well as EEG frequency features; (3) brain topographical maps provide an intuitive demonstration of the connectivity in the brain regions. Our code is available at \url{https://github.com/Jason-Qiu/EEG_Language_Alignment}.
title Can Brain Signals Reveal Inner Alignment with Human Languages?
topic Neurons and Cognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06348