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ArticleImaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)2026

From surface to depth: Using deep learning to predict striatal fMRI reward signaling from EEG.

Nadine Herzog, Luka Vähäsarja, Pia Reinfeld, Nico Scherf, Simon M Hofmann, Christina Andreou, Arno Villringer, Christoph Mulert

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Nadine HerzogDepartment of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8346-7153
Luka VähäsarjaDepartment of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
Pia ReinfeldDepartment of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8644-2229
Nico ScherfNeural Data Science and Statistical Computing Group, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4003-9121
Simon M HofmannDepartment of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0958-501X
Christina AndreouTranslational Psychiatry Unit, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6656-9043
Arno VillringerDepartment of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2604-2404
Christoph MulertCenter for Psychiatry, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8214-5868

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Abstract

Reward processing is critical for motivation, learning, and decision making. It involves a network centered on the fronto-striatal circuit, with the ventral striatum (VS) playing a pivotal role. While functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been instrumental in mapping subcortical VS reward signals, its cost and limited accessibility hinder broader clinical applications. In this study, we adapted a convolutional autoencoder deep learning (DL) model to reconstruct VS blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) activity from task-based electroencephalography (EEG) data, both recorded during a two-choice gambling task known to elicit reward-related activation in the VS. The model was trained on consecutive EEG-fMRI data from 19 healthy participants, allowing it to identify patterns that generalize across individuals. Results show that the DL model significantly outperforms linear baseline models in predicting VS activity: across leave-one-out folds, the mean correlation between the DL-derived and the ground truth VS BOLD signal was

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deep learningEEG–fMRIneurofeedbackreward processingventral striatum

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