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Multilingual Brain Decoding Reveals Shared Cortical Semantic Geometry
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Margin-Regularized Structured Semantic Alignment for Brain-Language Correspondence
With the rapid advancement of large language models, brain-language decoding has achieved remarkable progress. However, it remains unclear whether decoded content genuinely reflects neural representat...