[BIC-announce] MEG Study Competition: preselected projects & Speed-Voting Thursday 1-3pm

[Sylvain Baillet, Dr]

Dear All:

We have received 29 projects to enter this year's MEG at McGill competition.
We are very grateful that investigators new to MEG have taken the time and showed interest in trying the technique for their research.

We are glad to offer everyone who participated so far full assistance in experimental design, data collection and analysis for a handful of pilots, free of charge, which will help investigators learn rapidly about MEG imaging and populate subsequent grant applications.

The next step is the Study Speed-Voting session, which will take place on Thursday Dec 13, 1-3pm, (Jeanne-Timmins Auditorium, MNI, 3801 University). We had to preselect 20 projects to make sure the session can be wrapped up in 2hrs max. Most preselection criteria had to be designed after the fact, due to the overwhelming number of entries:
- investigator or his/her supervisor has no ongoing or past MEG experience
- one entry per investigator/supervisor
- favor projects where student/post-doc was identified
- favor projects from the Montreal region

The title of the 20 preselected projects are at he bottom of this message.

Preselected projects will be presented in 4 mins by their investigators. The audience will vote, so please bring colleagues, friends and family and participate in the decision! The score obtained by the presentations will count for 50% of the final decision to award the Grand Prize of a full n=20 MEG study with complete technical assistance (from paradigm implementation to data analysis). The other 50% will be from the evaluation by the MEG Research Committee and the MEG at McGill core personnel.

Hoping to see everyone Thursday!

Cheers - Sylvain.

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Sylvain Baillet, PhD

MNI Killam Scholar & Director, MEG Research
Associate Professor, Neurology & Neurosurgery
Associate Member, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

neuroSPEED lab<http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsNeuroSPEED/>
MEG @ McGill<http://www.facebook.com/MEGatMcGill>
Brainstorm project<http://neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm>

McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
Montreal Neurological Institute
McGill University


Phil Dickinson  Grad Student    Jens Pruessner  McGill  The neural mechanisms of memory consolidation and its blockade with propranolol during sleep: A MEG Study
Samir Sangani   Post-doc        Joyce Fung & Anouk Lamontagne   McGill  Cortical representation of spatial navigation in a complex virtual environment
Kalyna Franko   Undergrad Student       Yosef Grodzinsky        McGill, Linguistics     Investigating the internal linguistic structure and numerical processing of degree quantifiers using brain imaging methods
Petra Schweinhardt      Faculty
        McGill, AECRP   Seeing what you feel behind: neural correlates of analgesia induced by observing painful stimulation.
Maryse Thomas   Grad Student    Shari Baum & Vince Gracco       McGill  Activation of the Insular Cortex during Second Language Production in Bilinguals
John Lewis      Post-doc        Alan Evans      McGill, MNI     Connection lengths and aberrant connectivity in developmental disorders
Nedialko Krouchev       Grad Student    John Kalaska    UdeM, GRSNC     Libet actively revisited: Subjective and objective timing, delay and synchrony in well-adapted motor behaviour
Benjamin Elgie  Grad Student    Vincent Gracco & Thomas Gisiger McGill, CRBLM   The relationship between endogenous cortical rhythmic fluctuations at rest and active speech and language processing
Audrey Doualot  Grad Student    Dave Saint-Amour        UQAM    Perceptual and neural adaptation of the visual competition during binocular rivalry.
Irina Pivneva   Grad Student    Debra Titone    McGill, Psychology      The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Bilingual Language Processing
Alexandre Reynaud       Post-doc        Robert Hess     McGill, Vision Research Luminance-dependent temporal asynchrony generated by ND filters in the visual system assessed with MEG
Reza Farivar    Faculty
        McGill, MNI     Cortical information propagation
Elodie Boudes   Grad Student    Pia Wintermark  McGill, Children's Hospital     Impact of Neonatal Asphyxia on Vision: a MEG/MRI/ERG/VEP Combined Study.
Etienne de Villers-Sidani       Faculty
        McGill, MNI     Shaping A1-frontal interconnectivity with auditory perceptual training
Thierry Gal-Bailly      Grad Student    Lucie Godard    UQAM    Neurolinguistic study of a new Second Language Teaching Approach
Sathy Rajasekharan      Staff
        McGill, Centre for Biomedical Innovation        This is your brain on a viral video
Sathy Rajasekharan      Staff
        McGill, Centre for Biomedical Innovation        Use your iMEGination
Avinash R. Vaidya       Grad Student    Lesley Fellows  McGill, MNI     Role of the orbitofrontal cortex in reward-driven attentional capture
Janine Mendola  Faculty
        McGill, Royal Vic       Is MEG gamma peak frequency an index of inhibition in primary visual cortex during binocular rivalry?
Marie Pourquié  Post-doc        Phaedra Royle, Manuel Carreiras UdeM, Ecole d’Orthophonie et d’Audiologie       Neuropsychological foundations of expressive and receptive verb lexical and inflectional processing in French: a MEG study.
Alexandra Marquis       Post-doc        Phaedra Royle, Karsten Steinhauer       UdeM, Ecole d’Orthophonie et d’Audiologie       A MEG study of auditory noun phrase processing in French-speaking children with and without Specific Language Impairment

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