[Neurobureau-hubs] Fwd: Connectionists: data analysis competition / Biomag2012

[Daniel Margulies]

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> From: Ole Jensen <ole.jensen at donders.ru.nl>
> Date: March 21, 2012 7:26:41 AM GMT+01:00
> To: connectionists at cs.cmu.edu
> Subject: Connectionists: data analysis competition / Biomag2012
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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
> The deadline for submitting results is Aug 17, 2012.
> 
> 
> -- 
>   Ole Jensen http://www.neuosc.com
> 
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