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Dear colleagues,<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Ole Jensen and Ali Bahramisharif<br>
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<b>Biomag2012 analysis competition - distributed representations<br>
</b>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.<u><br>
<br>
</u>The aims 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 different the 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 which the
techniques can bring about</li>
</ul>
<p>The deadline for submitting results is Aug 17, 2012<br>
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Link for details, data etc: <a
href="http://www.biomag2012.org/content/data-analysis-competition">http://www.biomag2012.org/content/data-analysis-competition</a>
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