Conference/Symposium/Event
Luck lab
2014 ERP Boot Camp at UC-Davis
Center for Mind & Brain
University of California, Davis
The UC-Davis ERP Boot Camp, a 10-day NIH-funded summer workshop on the ERP technique, will be held at UC-Davis July 14-23, 2014. It is intended for beginning and intermediate ERP researchers, and for both basic scientists and clinical researchers.
The topics will include:
1) Where do ERPs come from? What do they mean?
2) ERP components
3) The design and interpretation of ERP experiments
4) EEG data acquisition
5) Filtering, artifact rejection, and artifact correction
6) Measuring and analyzing ERP components
7) ERP localization
8) Setting up and running an ERP lab
The Boot Camp consists of lectures on these topics, accompanied by guided discussions of ERP papers, activities, and individual consultations. It is led by Steve Luck, and the faculty includes many distinguished ERP researchers from UC Davis and other universities.
Participants at previous Boot Camps have come from around the world and have ranged from beginning graduate students to full professors. They have included psychologists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, neurologists, speech pathologists, and more. Typically, we expect that graduate students and postdocs will have had at least 1 year of significant ERP experience before attending the Boot Camp.
We strongly encourage the participation of individuals from underrepresented groups.
Funding is available from NIMH to defray most or all of the costs of attending the Boot Camp but is limited to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. International participants are encouraged to apply, but they must obtain their own funding (mainly travel and lodging costs). We typically accept 30 U.S. citizens and permanent residents, along with 5 international participants.
For more information about the Boot Camp and the application procedures, see www.ERPinfo.org
Applications for the 2014 session are now being accepted at erpinfo.org/the-erp-bootcamp.
Applications are due on March 1, 2014.
Questions should be directed to [email protected]
Contact Name: Emily Kappenman
Contact Email: [email protected]
Contact Website: www.erpinfo.org
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Conference/Symposium/Event
BOLD variability in aging
Cognitive Aging Conference- Pre-conference workshop
Psychology
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Cognitive Aging Conference (April, 2014, Atlanta) is pleased to
sponsor a pre-conference workshop prior to the start of the conference
on April 3, 2014. The workshop will be held at the conference hotel
from 9:00am - 12:00noon. The conference begins at 1:00pm on Thursday,
April 3.
Doug Garrett at the Center for Lifespan Psychology (Max Planck
Institute for Human Development in Berlin) will conduct the workshop
that is titled
Moment-to-moment brain signal variability and
dynamics: Leveraging noise as signal in the study of human aging and cognition
Workshop description: Neuroscientists have long observed that brain
activity is naturally variable from moment-to-moment, yet neuroimaging
research has rarely considered signal variability as a within-person
measure of interest. Our fMRI work on younger and older adults
suggests that within-person BOLD signal variability offers highly
predictive, complementary, and even orthogonal views of brain function
compared to traditional mean-based measures. In particular, we
continue to find that older, poorer performing adult brains often
exhibit less signal variability, within and across brain regions and
tasks. Accordingly, I will discuss the idea that contrary to
traditional theoretical expectations of adult-developmental increases
in "neural noise," brain aging could instead be re-conceived of as a
generalized process of increasing system rigidity and loss of dynamic
range. I will also cover various practical aspects of computing and
analyzing brain signal variability so that attendees can easily
incorporate various signal variability measures into their own
research programs.
The workshop costs $50 per person and you can register here:
http://www.cac.gatech.edu/pre-conference-workshop-registration.
You do not have to attend the conference to attend the workshop.
Contact Name: Audrey Duarte
Contact Email: [email protected]
Contact Website: http://www.cac.gatech.edu/pre-conference-workshop-registration
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Conference/Symposium/Event
Brain Connectivity in Health and Disease
Eighth Annual Symposium: Reprogramming the Brain to Health
The Center for BrainHealth
The University of Texas at Dallas
The Center for BrainHealth, in partnership with the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley, presents the eighth annual Reprogramming the Brain to Health Symposium for 2014. The Symposium brings together the most distinguished brain scientists to share and learn up-to-the-minute breakthroughs in brain research.
Floyd Bloom, M.D. will deliver the keynote address and will receive the 2014 Charles L. Branch BrainHealth award. The focus of this year's Symposium will be on brain connectivity in health and disease.
Other 2014 Symposium presenters are:
Bharat Biswal, Ph.D. (NJIT)
Vince Calhoun (UNM)
Mark D'Esposito, M.D. (UC Berkeley)
Jay Giedd, M.D. (NIMH)
Michael Greicius, M.D. (Stanford)
Hanzhang Lu, Ph.D. (UT Southwestern).
Steven Petersen, Ph.D. (Wash U)
Bart Rypma, Ph.D. (UT Dallas)
When: April 10, 2014 8am-5pm
Where: The Center for BrainHealth at UT Dallas
Early Registration (before March 1, 2014): $30 Students/Post-Docs | $120 Professionals
Regular Registration (after March 1, 2014): $45 Students/Post-Docs | $160 Professionals
The Symposium is designed for cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, physicians, psychologists, rehabilitation specialists, researchers, educators, and students.
For more information please visit brainhealth.utdallas.edu/events/research_symposium/
Contact Name: Bruce Jones
Contact Email: [email protected]
Contact Website: http://www.brainhealth.utdallas.edu/events/research_symposium/
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ESCOP Summerschool 2014
BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
The Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language is pleased to announce the ESCOP summerschool on language.
The overarching goal of the summerschool is to bring together scientists with different perspectives and methodological approaches to the study of language to give an overview of the debates and advances in the field.
The summerschool will be held between July 14th and 19th, 2014 in Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain.
This summerschool has been created to highlight recent advances and new challenges in language research on a wide range of topics including speech perception and production, language acquisition, bilingualism, reading, sign language, etc. and familiarize attendees with cutting edge techniques such as fMRI, MEG, EEG, eyetracking, etc.
TEACHERS:
Blair Armstrong - BCBL, Spain.
Jeffrey R. Binder - Medical College of Wisconsin, USA.
Cesar Caballero - BCBL, Spain.
Gary S. Dell - University of Illinois, USA.
Jon Andoni Du�abeitia - BCBL, Spain.
Karen Emmorey - San Diego State University, USA.
Gregory S. Hickok - University of California, USA.
Emmanuel Keuleers - Ghent University, Belgium.
Judith Kroll - Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Clara Martin - BCBL, Spain.
Nicola Molinaro - BCBL, Spain.
Monika Molnar - BCBL, Spain.
Pedro (Kepa) Paz-Alonso - BCBL, Spain.
David C. Plaut - Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Kim Plunkett - Oxford University, UK.
Brenda Rapp - Johns Hopkins University, USA.
Arthur Samuel - BCBL, Spain & Stony Brook University, USA.
Nuria Sebastian - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain.
Guillaume Thierry - Bangor University College, UK.
Lorraine K. Tyler - University of Cambridge, UK.
For more information, please visit our website: http://www.bcbl.eu/events/ESCOP-summerschool/en/
We look forward to seeing you in 2014!
ESCOP Summerschool Organizing Committee
Contact Name: Manuel Carreiras
Contact Email: [email protected]
Contact Website: http://www.bcbl.eu/events/ESCOP-summerschool/en/
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Functional MRI
fMRI Visiting Fellowship Programs 2014Mar31, 2014Sep29
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Massachusetts General Hospital
The 5-day Visiting Fellowship Program in Functional MRI has been held more than 50 times since its inception in October of 1994. It is a world-renown introduction to the basics of Functional MRI, presented in an intense workshop that emphasizes experimental design in the context of a thorough grounding in image acquisition, task design, data analysis and a collection of cautionary tales to give the participant a good feel for the pitfalls of fMRI-based research, as well as its power. It is held at the home of the first human functional MRI experiments: The Athinoula A. Martinos Center For Biomedical Imaging of the Massachusetts General Hospital, near Boston, Massachusetts.
The purpose of the workshop is to provide a serious introduction to this field. It is primarily intended for people new to the field, and for those who have had some experience but seek a more thorough and principled introduction.
CURRICULUM
Students will receive a firm grounding in the fundamentals of fMRI. This will include the basic physics of MR imaging, the biology and biophysics of the hemodynamic responses to neural activity, the principles of fMRI data analysis (including both exploratory and statistical analysis), stimulus presentation and response recording in the context of high magnetic fields and electromagnetic pulses, and the design of perceptual and cognitive experiments. Additional topics will include resting-state fMRI and DTI/DSI/Tractography to address issues of structural and functional connectivity in the human brain, but the core curriculum remains task-activation studies using fMRI.
A special emphasis of the course will be the design, implementation, and execution of perceptual and/or cognitive experiments by the participants. Participants will break into small groups to design their own fMRI experiments. Barring unforeseen problems, some of these experiments will be executed, and the resulting data analyzed, on the final day of the course.
The core faculty is drawn from the staff of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center (of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and affiliated faculty from Harvard University, Boston University, McLean Hospital and other institutions.
NOTE: While a large fraction of the workshop is spent addressing the many issues associated with the analysis of fMRI data, this is NOT a course to teach a specific software package. Other workshops, devoted to specific packages, are available at Martinos and at other institutions.
Send e-mail questions to [email protected].
Please include course code (i.e., 2014Mar31 or 2014Sep29) in SUBJECT line.
Contact Name: Robert Savoy
Contact Email: [email protected]
Contact Website: http://www.martinos.org/fMRIVFP
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Conference/Symposium/Event
Resting State Functional Connectivity and DTI/DSI/Tractography
Brain Connectivity As Revealed by Structural and Functional MRI Sep 3-7, 2014
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Massachusetts General Hospital
Background: The issue of measuring and modeling brain connectivity---both structural and functional---is currently the dominant issue in functional brain imaging. The Martinos Center has held three workshops on this topic during 2012-2013. The next workshop will be held Sep 3-7, 2014, which is in the period preceding the Fourth Biennial Conference on Resting State / Brain Connectivity that will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Content: Issues associated with connectivity in the human brain are of increasing importance, as reflected in the large number of abstracts, research articles, and even entire journals devoted to this area, as well as the increased emphasis on lesions within the white matter as being a source of many neuro-psychiatric disorders. MRI has proven to be a valuable tool for examining connectivity both in terms of the coordinated activities of neural networks (using BOLD-based fMRI data collected during rest and during tasks) and also in terms of the structural anatomy of white matter pathways of the brain (using Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), Diffusion Spectrum Imaging (DSI), and tractography programs to analyze and visualize the resulting data). Participants will learn about the technical challenges in acquisition, data processing and visualization of brain networks via the data from fMRI during the so-called resting state, but also available during experimenter-initiated cognitive tasks. Participants will also receive a firm grounding in the power and limitations associated with using diffusion-sensitive MRI to detect and organize the anatomical structure of white matter tracts in the living human brain. There will be a section on the Connectome MRI Machine that uses exceptionally strong gradients to enhance data acquisition of strutural and functional images.
Goals: The primary goal of this program is to give researchers and clinicians a good start for their investigations using these tools. In that sense, it serves a purpose analogous to that of the Functional MRI Visiting Fellowship Program (fMRIVFP) also offered at the Martinos Center, except that the domain will be structural and functional connectivity of myelinated fiber tracts within the living human brain. The active components of the program will include discussions with leaders in this field, and also the demonstration (and optional use) of a variety of software tools associated with this work. Some of the tools are designed to promote quality assurance in the data (such as detecting movement outliers); some are concerned with flexibly visualizing correlational data analysis; some are concerned with ICA and dual regression in modelling the data; and others with graph-theoretical considerations. Note, however, that the fundamental aim of the program is to give students the opportunity to interact with leaders in the field, rather than being a program primarily oriented around teaching software packages. Nonetheless, participants will be encouraged (though not required) to bring a suitable laptop computer for engaging in the hands-on exercises of the program.
Facuty: The core faculty is drawn from the staff of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center (of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and affiliated faculty from Harvard University, McLean Hospital and other local institutions. Guest lecturers in past programs have included faculty from the Child Mind Institute of New York, NIH, Stanford University, The Donders Institute, the University of Cambridge and others.
For questions, e-mail: [email protected]
Contact Name: Robert Savoy
Contact Email: [email protected]
Contact Website: http://martinos.org/ConnectivityCourse
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Psychonomic Society Early-Career Awards
Call for Nominations