Research seminars of the Brain Research Unit

Organised by Martin Schürmann

Riitta Hari, Ethical issues, 21.1.

Takashi Ninjouji, NTT-DoCoMo, Kanagawa/Japan User interface research at NTT DoCoMo, 27.1.

Veikko Jousmäki, MEG questions: stimulator systems, 3.2.

Lauri Parkkonen, MEG questions, part 3/3, 17.2.

Jan Kujala  Meeting report Mathematical Biosciences Institute Workshop: System Level Modeling, 24.2.

Mika Seppä, Software for scientific illustrations 1/2: Questions to software wizards, 3.3.

Antti Tarkiainen, preparing for dissertation Cortical dynamics of visual feature and object-level processing in the human occipitotemporal cortex: MEG source analysis and evaluation of conductivity models, 10.3.

Mika Seppä, Software for scientific illustrations 2/2: Questions to software wizards, 17.3.

Anna C. Nobre, Brain and Cognition Laboratory, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK: Orienting attention to contents of mental representations, 24.3.

Reinhard König,  and Leibniz-Institute of Neurobiology, Magdeburg/Germany: Category-specific representation of objects in the human brain: an MEG study of picture naming, 31.3.

Jussi Numminen, LTL/BRU and HUS, Cortical activation during a spatiotemporal tactile decision task, Töölö functional MRI study with Martin Schürmann, Janna Hiltunen, Raimo Joensuu, Veikko Jousmäki, Seppo Koskinen, Riitta Salmelin, and Riitta Hari, 7.4.

Gina Caetano, Literature review Desmond and Glover, estimating sample size in functional MRI (fMRI) neuroimaging studies: statistical power analysis, J Neurosci Meth 2002, 118: 115, 14.4.

Jean Michel Hupé, CERCO, CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse/France: Motion perception : from electrophysiology to psychophysics, defense of the phenomenological approach, 28.4.

Ken-Ichi Kaneko, Meeting report Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Midwinter Meeting in Florida, 12.5.

Jan Kujala, DICS, 19.5.

Robert Turner, Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, University College London, From curiosity to tool: fMRI and imaging neuroscience, 22.5.

Ken-Ichi Kaneko, Binaural interaction in the human auditory cortex revealed by neuromagnetic frequency-tagging, 9.6.

Yevhen Hlushchuk, Literature review Warnking et al., fMRI retinotopic mapping - step by step, Neuroimage 2002, 17: 1665, 16.6.

Felipe Quesney, McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institute and Centro de Magnetoencefalografia, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, MEG in neurology: current trends, new indications and future perspectives, 20.8.

Gabriel Curio, Department of Neurology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany: The Berlin Brain-Computer Interface (BBCI), 25.8.

Summer students' reports:
Linda Henriksson: Visual stimulus optimization for multifocal fMRI
Kaisa Hytönen: Stimulus systems manual
Antti Jalava: Calculation of cross spectra and preprocessing of MEG data in Mathworks Matlab environment, 1.9.

Hiroyuki Manabe, NTT/DoCoMo, Yokosuka, Japan, Voiceless speech recognition using facial EMG, 8.9.

Summer students' reports:
Taru Suortti: Diffusion tensor imaging and tractography
Sanna Silanen: Correlating fMRI data with subjective pain rating
Johanna Uusvuori: Semantic priming, 22.9.

Simo Vanni, Meeting report, Vision Sciences Society 03 (VSS 03), Sarasota, Florida
Mia Liljeström, Meeting report, NorFa meeting, Stockholm (focus event-related fMRI)
Jan Kujala, Meeting report, NorFa meeting, Stockholm (focus residual movement correction for fMRI), 6.10.

Teija Silén, preparation for dissertation Somatosensory and motor cortical activity in patients and carriers of Unverricht-Lundborg type progressive myoclonus epilepsy (dissertation on 31 October 2003), 20.10.

Simo Vanni and Antti Tarkiainen, and AMI, New features in SPM2 (ad-hoc teaching)
Nina Forss, Meeting report Prague 2003
Hanna Renvall, Meeting report Prague 2003, 27.10.

Sari Avikainen, preparation for dissertation Cortical mechanisms of action observation, imitation and social perception in healthy and autistic subjects (dissertation on 08 November 2003), 5.11.

Miiamaria Saarela, Neural foundation of the body image
Gina Caetano, Meeting report Prague 2003, 10.11.

Hanna Renvall, preparation for dissertation Temporal processing of sensory information in developmental dyslexia: neuromagnetic and psychophysical studies (dissertation on 12 December 2003), 19.11.

Linda Stenbacka, Luminance-sensitive area at the parieto-occipital junction
Tiina Parviainen, Meeting report RIKEN/Japan, 24.11.

Vincent Gracco, McGill University, Montreal, The neural control of speech: Some issues and data, 1.12.

Cristina Simoes, Meeting report - Society for Neuroscience 2003, 8.12.