Monday Methods Meetings at the CBU

We have regular methods events in our Monday Methods Meetings (MMM) on Mondays at 12:30.

This includes:

Project Presentation Meetings (PPM), mandatory before requesting neuroimaging slots.
Methods-Oriented Talks (MOT) by internal or external speakers.
Data Clinics (Clinic) that are available to all researchers (neuroimaging, behavioural, modelling etc.). The clinics are intended to be informal meetings to discuss issues with experimental design, data collection and analysis, or interpretation.

Additional Methods resources:

CBU’s Slack help channel, where you can ask questions, post relevant news items or suggestions, and search for previous replies on a topic of interest.
Wiki pages. Please note that some of these pages may be out-of-date – this is work in progress and we greatly appreciate your feedback.
CBU GitHub with some open software tools from the CBU.
Recordings of previous conferences and workshops at the CBU.

You can always get in touch with a member of the Methods Group (see below) first to discuss your ideas. We are always happy to receive suggestions for Data Clinics or IIG talks, and you are welcome to contribute to our Wiki and GitHub pages as well as our Slack channels.

Methods group: Rik Henson, Olaf Hauk, Marta Correia, Dace Apšvalka, Peter Watson

Please find the MMM schedule below. Recordings and resources of some of the previous talks are available here.

2023 schedule

Date	Topic	Presenter	Type
Jan 2	Holiday
Jan 9	Introduction to Git	Clément Gaultier	MOT
Jan 16	Brain Dynamics of Verbal and Spatial Processing Does Theta Synchronicity of Sensory Information Enhance Associative Memory?: Replicating the Theta-Induced Memory Effect	Natalia Zdorovtsova Fatih Serin	PPM PPM
Jan 23	Neural systems supporting short-term memory for ambiguous speech MEG decoding of neural representations for predicted and perceived speech	Harriet Smith Máté Aller	PPM PPM
Jan 30	Exploring the neural dynamics of the deprived hand activity in congenital one-handers Fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS) for visual word recognition A comparison of imaging modalities and decoding methodologies for detecting semantic information	Raffaele Tucciarelli Olaf Hauk Saskia Frisby	PPM PPM PPM
Feb 6
Feb 13
Feb 20	Sup sup Proactive and retroactive effects of novel exploration and wakeful rest	Jarrod Lewis-Peacock Maya Raza	PPM(MRI) PPM(web)
Feb 27	The Oscillatory Mechanisms for Domain-General Cognitive Processes Using concurrent TMS-fMRI & e-field modelling to determine TMS dose	Runhao Lu Elizabeth Michael	PPM(MEG) PPM(TMS)
Mar 6	Sparse PCA functional connectivity in stroke	Niklas Wiemers	Clinic
Mar 13	FakeDiamond: MEG investigations into conceptual and compositional semantics How we learn the distributions of new concepts	Ryan Law Rob Mok	PPM(MEG) PPM(MRI)
Mar 20
Mar 27	SEM workshop
Apr 3	Isolating the arterial blood volume change to probe fMRI spatial specificity (https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26227)	Nikos Priovoulos (The Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, NL)	MOT
Apr 10	Holiday
Apr 17	Kymata English Narrative and Attention EMEG Study Digital parenting across family compositions	Andrew Thwaites Lukas Gunschera	PPM(MEG) PPM(web)
Apr 24	Using Contrastive Variational Autoencoders to disentangle ASD-specific neuroanatomical variation (https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abm2461)	Aidas Aglinskas (Boston College, USA)	MOT
May 1	Holiday
May 8	Holiday
May 15	Effects of semaglutide injections on mental health, motivation, and decision-making	Sara Mehrhof, Camilla Nord	PPM(web)
May 22	Using passive smartphone data to identify habitual phone use	Georgia Turner	PPM(web)
May 29	Holiday
Jun 5
Jun 12	Neural Dynamics of Attentional Allocation in the Presence of Visual Competition	Yuena Zheng	PPM(MEG)
Jun 19
Jun 26
Jul 3	Revealing brain networks supporting hidden working memory states using concurrent TMS and precision fMRI	Moataz Assem	PPM(MRI)
Jul 10	TBC	Victoria Poulton	PPM(web)
Jul 17	ISMRM highlights	Marta Correia	MOT
Jul 24
Jul 31
Aug 7
Aug 14
Aug 21
Aug 28	Holiday
Sep 4	Effects of a 3D spatial schema on memory in humans, Experiment 3	Rik Henson	PPM(web)
Sep 11	REDCAP (university data bases for personal data)	Barry Widmer (Cambridge, Psychiatry)	MOT
Sep 18	COGNESTIC
Sep 25	COGNESTIC
Oct 2	Decoupling motor, intention, and semantic components within the motor system	Hristo Dimitrov	PPM(MRI)
Oct 9	Is it *really* difficult to detect interactions?	Rik Henson	MOT
Oct 16	TBC	Hristo Dimitrov	PPM(MEG)
Oct 23
Oct 30
Nov 6
Nov 13
Nov 20
Nov 27
Dec 04	Methods Day
Dec 11
Dec 18
Dec 25	Holiday