Understanding Information Need: an fMRI Study
- Submitting institution
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University of Glasgow
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 11-03957
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1145/2911451.2911534
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- SIGIR 2016: 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieva
- First page
- 335
- Volume
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- Issue
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- ISSN
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- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/118374/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Citation count
- 13
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ORIGINALITY: The paper proposes a multidisciplinary methodology that investigates the connection between information need and brain activity, finding the information need via brain signals (fMRI). SIGNIFICANCE: The work was published at the premier, top-ranked conference on information retrieval (SIGIR) and was awarded the ‘Best paper award’. RIGOUR: The paper contains rigorous and comprehensive experiments with the measured brain activity of 24 participants performing Question Answering tasks from the core benchmarks TREC-8 and TREC 2001, revealing a distributed network of brain regions commonly associated with neural bases of information need.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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