<html><head><base href="x-msg://84/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear MEG researchers,<div><br></div><div>Please see the announcement below that I am forwarding on behalf of the HCP.</div><div><br><div><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><u><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(55, 96, 146); ">News from the Human Connectome Project (HCP)</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><i>March 4, 2014</i></b><o:p></o:p></div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 12.75pt; "><img width="442" height="109" align="right" hspace="12" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_1" id="ab0cffe1-dba1-45fa-b85f-8d80911832c4" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image003.png@01CF37CF.A5FC5850"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The Human Connectome Project (HCP) WU-Minn consortium is pleased to announce our initial release of magnetoencephalography (MEG) data.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><a name="_Toc381701599"><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">What’s in the HCP MEG Initial (MEG1) data release?</span></i></b></a><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The MEG1 data include 10 complete, high quality datasets from 14 healthy adults collected at rest (rMEG) and during 3 tasks (tMEG) that measure sensory, motor, and cognitive task performance. For 3 subjects in this MEG release, data has already been released for the other modalities in the HCP protocol (T1w and T2w MRI, rfMRI, tfMRI, dMRI, and behavioral measures). MRI and behavioral measures for the remaining 11 subjects will be released as part of the upcoming HCP 500 Subjects Release scheduled for late spring 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 6pt; "><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">The MEG1 release includes:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">raw, unprocessed MEG data in 4D Neuroimaging format<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">co-registration information (in the form of transformation matrices) that allow coordinate transformations between individual subject MEG coordinate systems and the MNI coordinate system<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">volume conduction model of the head (in MATLAB format)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">regular 3-D source models (in MATLAB format)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">E-Prime log files (tab-delimited and as Excel spreadsheets)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">lists of bad channels and bad segments<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">sets of independent components (each comprising the time course and the sensor map) together with the related classification output<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">cleaned channel-level processed data aligned to stimulus and response onsets (for the task data) or segmented in short pieces (2 sec epochs for the resting state data)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">averaged event-related fields and time-frequency estimates of power (for the task data)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: 18px; "><span style="font-family: Symbol; color: black; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">averaged power spectra (for the resting state data)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Download MEG analysis software.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Also available for download and use are pipeline scripts specifically written for analyzing HCP MEG data, collectively called “<b>megconnectome software version 1.0</b>”, and the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://fieldtriptoolbox.org/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">FieldTrip</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>MATLAB toolbox for MEG and EEG analysis. See<a href="http://humanconnectome.org/documentation/MEG1/meg-pipeline.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://humanconnectome.org/documentation/MEG1/meg-pipeline.html</a><span style="color: black; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for more information and to download the software.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 12.75pt; "><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Access MEG1 data on the HCP website.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> <a href="http://humanconnectome.org/data/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: purple; ">Learn about and download the HCP MEG1 dataset</span></a> (~300GB of data!) via the ConnectomeDB database. Most HCP image and behavioral data is openly accessible<span style="color: red; "> </span>to investigators worldwide who register and accept a limited set of <a href="http://humanconnectome.org/data/data-use-terms/open-access.html" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: purple; ">Open Access Data Use Terms</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 12.75pt; "><b><i><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Want more information? </span></i></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> Check out the <a href="http://humanconnectome.org/documentation/MEG1/MEG1_Release_Reference_Manual.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: purple; ">HCP MEG1 Data Release Reference Manual</span></a> for a comprehensive guide that includes details on scanning protocols, processing pipelines, and information that will help users obtain and analyze the Q3 data.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">If you are actively using HCP data and tools, we encourage you to join and be active in the <b><i>hcp-users discussion group</i></b> (<a href="http://www.humanconnectome.org/contact/#subscribe" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: purple; ">http://www.humanconnectome.org/contact/#subscribe</span></a>), so that you can tune in to technical discussions on issues that may be of interest. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Thanks again for your interest in the HCP. Please send us your questions and comments anytime to <a href="mailto:info@humanconnectome.org" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: purple; ">info@humanconnectome.org</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">The WU-Minn HCP Consortium<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Jennifer Elam, Ph.D.<br>Outreach Coordinator, Human Connectome Project<br>Washington University School of Medicine<br>Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Box 8108<br>660 South Euclid Avenue<br>St. Louis, MO 63110<br><a href="tel:314-362-9387" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: blue; ">314-362-9387</span></a><br><a href="mailto:elamj@pcg.wustl.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: blue; ">elamj@pcg.wustl.edu</span></a><br><a href="http://www.humanconnectome.org" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: blue; ">www.humanconnectome.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> <br></o:p></div></div></div></span></div></div><br></div></body></html>