FMRI evidence demonstrates distinct states of mind in the human brain
Functional MRI evidence and advanced decoding models consistently demonstrate that different cognitive processes correspond to distinct, identifiable states of brain activity.
The retrieved literature contains multiple studies dedicated to decoding brain activity and mental states from fMRI data (e.g., papers [0], [4], [5]). These works establish that distinct cognitive tasks and mental states produce measurable, classifiable patterns of whole-brain and regional activation, supporting the claim.
T. Rubin, Oluwasanmi Koyejo, Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski, Michael N. Jones, R. Poldrack, T. Yarkoni. Decoding brain activity using a large-scale probabilistic functional-anatomical atlas of human cognition. 2016. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005649
Demonstrates that fMRI data can be decoded to infer discrete cognitive and mental states.
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Yueh-Po Peng, V. Cheung, Li Su. Whole-brain Transferable Representations from Large-Scale fMRI Data Improve Task-Evoked Brain Activity Decoding. 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.22378
Shows that transformer-based models can effectively decode different task-evoked mental states from large-scale fMRI data.
José Diogo Marques dos Santos, L. Reis, José Diogo Marques dos Santos. Decoding Mental States in Social Cognition: Insights from Explainable Artificial Intelligence on HCP fMRI Data. 2025. https://doi.org/10.3390/make7010017
Applies machine learning to fMRI data to successfully classify and explain different cognitive brain states during Theory of Mind tasks.
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