I am pleased to invite you to attend the MiNDS Colloquium TOMORROW Thursday March 15th at 3:00 in HSC 4E20. Bring your coffee cup for coffee and cookies before the talk at 2:45.

Dr. McIntosh is the Director of the Rotman Research Institute and the Vice President of Research at Baycrest Centre.  He is internationally recognized for his work in the development of Partial Least Squares (PLS) methods of neuroimaging analysis that allow for: i) analysis of the relation between brain activity and behavioural data (e.g., the relation between patterns of prefrontal cortical activation and memory performance) and ii) patterns of neural connectivity between regions.  An organizing principle of Dr. McIntosh's work is the tenet that cognitive and affective processes emerge from interactions between brain areas rather than from the activity of a single neural region.  He has published extensively in the areas of aging, neuroimaging analysis, and sensory processes.

 

Dr McIntosh's talk will present an overview of a recent line of work that examines how brain noise changes across the lifespan.  He will show how this noise follows the ubiquitous inverted-U function and how such changes can be understood in the framework of information processing capacity in nonlinear systems.  The relation of brain noise to clinical conditions and potential impact in recovery will conclude the presentation.

 

We look forward to seeing you all at the talk tomorrow.

 

Regards

 

Kathy

 

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Kathryn M Murphy PhD

Professor and Director MiNDS Graduate Program

Dept of Psychology Neuroscience & Behaviour

McMaster University

1280 Main St W 

Hamilton ON L8S 4K1