Confounds in the Data - Comments on "Decoding Brain Representations by Multimodal Learning of Neural Activity and Visual Features"

Hamad Ahmed, Ronnie B. Wilbur, Hari M. Bharadwaj, Jeffrey Mark Siskind

Abstract: Neuroimaging experiments in general, and EEG experiments in particular, must take care to avoid confounds. A recent TPAMI paper uses data that suffers from a serious previously reported confound. We demonstrate that their new model and analysis methods do not remedy this confound, and therefore that their claims of high accuracy and neuroscience relevance are invalid.