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Biomag2012: Call for abstracts

   The 18th International Conference on Biomagnetism will be held in the beautiful 18th century Hotel de la Rochefoucauld d'Estissac, now a state-of-the-art meeting center located a few hundred meters away from the Eiffel tower, the Musée d'Orsay and the Saint Germain des Prés area ,Paris, France from Sunday, August 26th through Thursday, August 30th, 2012. 
   
  The scientific program includes, but is not limited to, technological, methodological, clinical and fundamental research in biomagnetism. This year, the conference will highlight the quickly growing field of human brain dynamics, taking the MEG perspective but also taking advantage of the multiple methods (EEG, fMRI) and recording levels (intracranial EEG, LFP, unit activity) now available. Those issues will be developped in five keynote lectures, twenty symposia and poster sessions.
   
  Please submit your abstract by March 15th, 2012 through the BioMag website:
  Registration is now open on the website: 

Biomag2012 analysis competition - distributed representations

  The decoding of mental states and neuronal representations from brain imaging data is a research field in rapid development. These decoding approaches have a great potential in MEG research where dataare recorded from hundreds of sensors with a millisecond time resolution. In particular cognitive neuroscience could benefit from further development of decoding approaches in order to identify representational specific brain activity.

  The aims of the competition is to:

  • Promote the development and application of new multivariate analysis techniques for decoding of brain activity
  • Make the audience aware of novel approaches
  • Elucidate the pros and cons of different the techniques
    • Which assumptions are behind a given approach?
    • What are the limitations?
  • Attract signal-processing experts from outside the MEG field and encourage a discussion on the cognitive insight which the techniques can bring about

  The deadline for submitting results is Aug 17, 2012. Link for details, data etc: http://www.biomag2012.org/content/data-analysis-competition 

SPM EEG/MEG courses 2012: April in Lyon, May in London

  Two courses in the first half of 2012 will present instruction on the analysis of MEG (and EEG) data using Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM). One in Lyon in April, the other in London in May. The three-day course in Lyon is the first one to be held in France and will - as the 'original one' in London does - offer a comprehensive coverage of all EEG/MEG related aspects of SPM.

- Parametric statistical analysis using the General Linear Model for inference at the scalp and source level

- Bayesian methodology for parameter estimation and model comparison 

- Source reconstruction and Dynamic Causal Modeling

 Registration is open now for both. For more information, please check

Lyon: https://sites.google.com/site/lyonspmcourse/ 

London: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/articles/events/SPM


 

 

-where the group works,
> > -what the topics are they work on,
> > -their "line of thought" about these topics/ the big thing they work
> towards
> Yep - but just a short paragraph.
> > -a short description of their recent&  important findings
> > -links to their 2 or 3 most important papers
> Probably best to combine these two.
> > -link to their website