Tuesday, January 10, 2012

[Comp-neuro] Data Analysis Competition at Biomag2012

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce the 'Biomag2012 analysis competition'. Please consider participating or encourage students, postdocs and colleagues to take part.  See below for details.

Best regards,

Ole Jensen and Ali Bahramisharif

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Biomag2012 analysis competition - distributed representations
The decoding of mental states and neuronal representations from brain imaging data is a research field in rapid development (Spiers HJ, Maguire EA. Decoding human brain activity during real-world experiences. Trends Cogn Sci. 2007 ; Haynes JD, Rees G. Decoding mental states from brain activity in humans. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2006). These decoding approaches have a great potential in MEG research where data are 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
  • 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

--  Ole Jensen http://www.neuosc.com

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