<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Dear Colleague</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">The Key Laboratory of Neuroinformation of the Ministery of Education of China in Chengdu (NIL), in collaboration with the Cuban Neuroscience Center (CNEURO), and the University of Ghent (UG) are organizing a workshop on</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">“Controversies in EEG source imaging (ESI)” </span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Which will be held in Chengdu, China from the 20th to the 22nd of August.</span><div>
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">All the info on the workshop and related activities are on the website</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.neuro.uestc.edu.cn/ceegsi/">http://www.neuro.uestc.edu.cn/ceegsi/</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div>Confirmed speakers include:<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Anna Custo</div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
Jorge Bosch-Bayard<br></div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Claude Bédard</div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Fabrizio de Vico Fallani</div>
<div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Daqing Guo<br></div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Stefan Haufe<br></div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
Xu Lei<br></div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Daniele Marinazzo<br></div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Cu Peng</div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
Dimitris Pinotsis<br></div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Jorge Riera<br></div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Andreas Spiegler<br></div>
<div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
Pedro Valdes Sosa<div>Dezhong Yao</div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">Rather than having traditional presentations we shall be discussing questions such as:</span><br>
</div><div><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">--Are there monopoles in the brain, and if so what impact to the have on ESI?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">--Is there is a best EEG reference and does it matter for ESI?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">--What is the best way to measure brain connectivity in ESI?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">--What if any, will the impact of Neural Field theory on ESI be?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">
</div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">with short presentations followed by discussions.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">We hope you can come and join us there.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">In any case, the workshop is structured in such a way that interested researchers can contribute even remotely.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">This can happen in several ways:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">-on the website several types of data (scalp and intracranial recordings from human, rat and monkey) have been uploaded. You can play with these data and share results and discussions.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">-you can contribute to the discussion participating to the forum on the website, uploading papers, preliminary results, etc.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">-ultimately, these discussions will result in a special issue of Brain Topography, to which we invite you to contribute. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px">The papers should ideally reflect the discussions during the workshop as well as before and after on the forum, and/or analyze the simulations and at least one experimental data set.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><div>Kind regards<br></div><div>
<br><br>Dezhong Yao, Daqing Gu, Xu Peng, Daniele Marinazzo and Pedro Valdes Sosa</div></div></div></div></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><font color="#888888">Daniele Marinazzo<span></span> --</font><font color="#888888"><br>
Department of Data Analysis<br>Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogical Sciences, Gent University<br></font><font color="#888888">
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