We would like to announce (2nd announcement) the data analysis competition at the Biomag2012 meeting (Paris, Aug 26-30). Please encourage students and postdocs to participate. There were some technical glitches in the data after the 1st announcement. They are now correct.
With best wishes,
Ole Jensen and Ali Bahramisharif
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Biomag2012 analysis competition - distributed representations
http://www.biomag2012.org/content/data-analysis-competition
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 aim 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 the different 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 the techniques can bring about
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Ole Jensen http://www.neuosc.com
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