Sebastian Weichwald
PhD Student
Alumni
Note: Sebastian Weichwald has transitioned from the institute (alumni). Explore further information here
I've moved to the CoCaLa (Copenhagen Causality Lab) at the University of Copenhagen.
Feel free to visit my web card for up-to-date information.
I am interested in the foundations of causal inference and its potential to provide novel insights in neuroimaging. We were the first to provide a comprehensive set of causal interpretation rules for encoding and decoding models in neuroimaging studies (see our NeuroImage publication and this explainer video (5 min)).
Causal interpretation rules for encoding and decoding models in neuroimaging
Causal interpretation rules for encoding and decoding models in neuroimaging /// S Weichwald, T Meyer, O Özdenizci, B Schölkopf, T Ball, M Grosse-Wentrup /// NeuroImage, Volume 110, 2015 /// We provide a set of rules which causal statements are warranted and which ones are not supported by empirical evidence. Especially, only encoding models in the stimulus-based setting support unambiguous causal interpretations. By combining encoding and decoding models, however, we obtain insights into causal relations beyond those that are implied by each individual model type.