Towards a latent space cartography of subjective experience in mental health.

Journal: Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
PMID:

Abstract

AIMS: The way that individuals subjectively experience the world greatly influences their own mental well-being. However, it remains a considerable challenge to precisely characterize the breadth and depth of such experiences. One persistent problem is the lack of objective tools for directly quantifying and comparing narrative reports of subjective experiences. Here, we develop a new approach to map and compare reports of experience using the latent space of artificial neural networks.

Authors

  • Shawn Manuel
    Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
  • Jean Gagnon
    Department of Psychology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  • Frédéric Gosselin
    INRAE, UR EFNO, Nogent-sur-Vernisson, France.
  • Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel
    Department of Decoded Neurofeedback, ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories, Kyoto, 619-0288, Japan. vincenttd@ucla.edu.