<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br><br><br></div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Ole Jensen <<a href="mailto:ole.jensen@donders.ru.nl">ole.jensen@donders.ru.nl</a>><br><b>Date:</b> March 21, 2012 7:26:41 AM GMT+01:00<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:connectionists@cs.cmu.edu">connectionists@cs.cmu.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Connectionists: data analysis competition / Biomag2012</b><br><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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Dear colleagues,<br>
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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 corrected.<br>
<br>
With best wishes,<br>
<br>
Ole Jensen and Ali Bahramisharif <br>
<small><br>
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<b>Biomag2012 analysis competition - distributed representations<br>
</b><br>
<a href="http://www.biomag2012.org/content/data-analysis-competition">http://www.biomag2012.org/content/data-analysis-competition</a><br>
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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.<br>
The aim of the competition is to:<br>
<ul>
<li>Promote the development and application of new multivariate
analysis techniques for decoding of brain activity</li>
<li>Make the audience aware of novel approaches</li>
<li>Elucidate the pros and cons of the different techniques</li>
<ul>
<li>Which assumptions are behind a given approach?</li>
<li>What are the limitations?</li>
</ul>
<li>Attract signal-processing experts from outside the MEG field</li>
<li>Encourage a discussion on the cognitive insight the techniques
can bring about</li>
</ul>
The deadline for submitting results is Aug 17, 2012.<br>
<br>
<br>
<small>-- <br>
Ole Jensen
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.neuosc.com">http://www.neuosc.com</a></small><br>
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