TY - JOUR
T1 - Using a Data-Driven Approach to Estimate Second-Language Proficiency From Brain Activation
T2 - A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study
AU - Lei, Miaomei
AU - Miyoshi, Toshinori
AU - Dan, Ippeita
AU - Sato, Hiroki
PY - 2020/7/10
Y1 - 2020/7/10
N2 - While non-invasive brain imaging has made substantial contributions to advance human brain science, estimation of individual state is becoming important to realize its applications in society. Brain activations were used to classify second-language proficiencies. Participants in functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) experiment were 20/20 native Japanese speakers with high/low English abilities and 19/19 native English speakers with high/low Japanese abilities. Their cortical activities were measured by functional near-infrared spectroscopy while they were conducting Japanese/English listening comprehension tests. The data-driven method achieved classification accuracy of 77.5% in the case of Japanese speakers and 81.9% in the case of English speakers. The informative features predominantly originated from regions associated with language function. These results bring an insight of fNIRS neuroscience and its applications in society.
AB - While non-invasive brain imaging has made substantial contributions to advance human brain science, estimation of individual state is becoming important to realize its applications in society. Brain activations were used to classify second-language proficiencies. Participants in functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) experiment were 20/20 native Japanese speakers with high/low English abilities and 19/19 native English speakers with high/low Japanese abilities. Their cortical activities were measured by functional near-infrared spectroscopy while they were conducting Japanese/English listening comprehension tests. The data-driven method achieved classification accuracy of 77.5% in the case of Japanese speakers and 81.9% in the case of English speakers. The informative features predominantly originated from regions associated with language function. These results bring an insight of fNIRS neuroscience and its applications in society.
KW - brain activation
KW - feature selection
KW - language proficiency
KW - machine learning
KW - native English speakers
KW - native Japanese speakers
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U2 - 10.3389/fnins.2020.00694
DO - 10.3389/fnins.2020.00694
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85088571088
VL - 14
JO - Frontiers in Neuroscience
JF - Frontiers in Neuroscience
SN - 1662-4548
M1 - 694
ER -