We tested our approach on neurologically healthy participants, and found that silent movies are nearly as effective as narrative stories for transferring semantic decoders. Scientifically, this adds to the growing evidence that semantic representations are shared between language and vision

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Our new approach can decode language from a participant without language data! First we train decoders on reference participants with language data. Then we use *silent movies* to align brain responses across participants. Finally we decode new participant responses using the reference decoders

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