September

4/9/06

Project Proposal:

Attentional switching at different levels of abstraction

Adam Hampshire, Daniel Bor, Adrian Owen

Project Proposal:

Measuring the attentional tuning curve

Adam Hampshire, Russell Thompson, John Duncan, Adrian Owen

11/9/06

Talk:

A guided tour of the new imaging WIKI website

Matthew Brett

18/9/06

Project Feedback:

Recognition memory for same vs different views of faces and scenes

Karen Taylor, Richard Henson & Kim Graham

Project Feedback:

The effects of aging on the brain regions involved in different types of recollection and source memory

Audrey Duarte, Richard Henson & Kim Graham

25/9/06

NO MEETING

October

2/10/06

Scripting and batching SPM

Ian Nimmo-Smith

9/10/06

NO MEETING

16/10/06

NO MEETING

23/10/06

Project Proposal:

Acoustic, Phonological and Lexical Repetition Priming of Spoken Words

Matt Davis & Jack Rogers

Project Proposal:

Selection of rules and actions in Parkinson's Disease: differential effects of l-dopa on cognitive and motor components of voluntary action

James Rowe, Laura Hughes & Adrian Owen

30/10/06

Talk:

MEG Lecture 1. Why do we need neurophysiological brain imaging?

F. Pulvermüller

Project Proposal:

Memory for uni- vs multi-modal associations

Audrey Duarte, Rik Henson and Kim Graham

Project Proposal:

Individual variations in behavioural activation (BAS) predict prefrontal cortex-amygdala coupling during emotional processing

Luca Passamonti, James Rowe, Andrew Lawrence, Michael Ewbank, and Andy Calder

November

6/11/06

Talk:

MEG Lecture 2. EEG/MEG biophysics and overview of source estimation techniques

F. Pulvermüller

Project Proposal:

The influence of behavioural activation (BAS) and attention on the emotional response to angry and afraid faces

Michael Ewbank, Andrew Lawrence, and Andy Calder

Project Feedback:

Medial temporal lobe activity during novel vs. familiar face and object processing

Morgan Barense, Kim Graham, Rik Henson

13/11/06

Talk:

MEG Lecture 3. Introduction to source localisation: ECD, L2 and L1 minimum norm

F. Pulvermüller

Project Proposal:

The influence of behavioural activation and behavioural inhibition systems (BIS/BAS) on emotional response inhibition: new cues in to the neural correlate of aggression

Luca Passamonti, James Rowe, Andrew Lawrence, Michael Ewbank, Andy Calder

Project Proposal:

Memory for emotional images

Andy Calder, Phil Barnard, Michael Ewbank, Cristina Ramponi and Andrew Lawrence

20/11/06

Project Proposal:

Flexible cognitive control within the PFC

Mark Stokes, Rhodri Cusack, and John Duncan

Project Feedback & Proposal:

Morpho-phonological properties of spoken words and fronto-temporal language network

Mirjana Bozic, Lolly Tyler, William Marslen-Wilson

Project Feedback & Proposal:

Investigating the effects of COMT alleles on problem solving in PD patients vs aged matched controls

Adam Hampshire, Adrian Owen, Caroline Williams-Grey & Sean Fallon

27/11/06

Talk:

MEG Lecture 4. Three types of information about the brain revealed by MEG: activation times, spatio-temporal patterns, spectral responses

F. Pulvermüller

Project Proposal:

Perception and relational memory for object and scenes

Morgan Barense, Jane Gore, Kim Graham

Discussion:

Separating events within fast event-related trials

Led by Garry Honey

December

4/12/06

NO MEETING

(Elekta MEG training course all day)

11/12/06

Talk:

MEG Lecture 5. Introduction to EEG/MEG analysis using SPM5

R. Henson

Project Proposal:

Interactions between content and source memory

Audrey Duarte, Rik Henson and Kim Graham

Project Feedback & Proposal:

Does spatial attention modulate mirror neuron activation? II

Karolina Moutsopoulou, Rhodri Cusack, Tom Manly

18/12/06

Project Feedback:

Neural correlates of vowel perception and the continuity illusion

Antje Heinrich, Bob Carlyon, Matt Davis, Ingrid Johnsrude

Project Proposal:

Using hysteresis to investigate speech perception

Antje Heinrich, Ingrid Johnsrude, Dennis Norris

Project Proposal:

Investigating the neural representation of head orientation using fMRI-adaptation

Lauri Nummenmaa, Rik Henson, Andy Calder

January

8/1/07

Talk:

MEG Lecture 6. An introduction to Data acquisition using Elekta-Neuromag software

Y. Shtyrov

Project Feedback:

COMT genotype and fronto-parietal activity associated with a low-level manipulation of task difficulty

Sonia Bishop

Project Proposal:

Detecting changes in facial expression vs identity

Eva Loth, Rik Henson, Andy Calder, Sonia Bishop

15/1/07

Talk:

MEG Lecture 7. From signals to event-related fields and dipoles: an introduction using Elekta-Neuromag software

Y. Shtyrov

Talk:

MEG Special Lecture. TWO PROBABILISTIC ALGORITHMS FOR MEG/EEG SOURCE RECONSTRUCTION

Johanna Zumer (UCSF)

Project Feedback:

Beat versus interval listening: a between-subjects study of different timing modes

Jessica Grahn

Project Proposal:

Roles of response learning vs perceptual facilitation in priming

Aidan Horner & Rik Henson

Project Proposal:

Accessing the meaning of written words and nonwords

Catherine-Marie Longtin, Mike Ford, Olaf Hauk, Matt Davis

22/1/07

Talk:

MEG Lecture 8. Introduction and overview to EEG/MEG distributed source estimation

O. Hauk

Talk:

Comparison of gradient-echo and spin-echo fMRI in monkeys at high magnetic fields

Jozien Goense

29/1/07

Talk:

MEG Lecture 9. Source Localisation of MEG/EEG data using SPM5

R. Henson

5/2/07

Talk:

MEG Lecture 10. Distributed MEG source analysis using L1 Minimum Norm Estimates using Elekta-Neuromag software

F. Pulvermüller