[BIC-announce] Decoding Mental States Using EEG workshop, March 7-8, 2018

[Zografos Caramanos, Mr]

Subject: Decoding Mental States Using EEG workshop, March 7-8, 2018

Students, Faculty & Researchers interested in cognitive neuroscience, functional MRI, and EEG,
You are invited to a workshop on Decoding Mental States Using EEG<http://ludmercentre.ca/events/decoding-mental-states-using-eeg/>.
Date: Wednesday, March 7th, 12:30-17:00 & Thursday, March 8th, 09:00-17:30, 2018
Places are limited; to register and access the programme details, visit the 'Event section' of the Ludmer Centre web site<http://www.LudmerCentre.ca/events> (www.LudmerCentre.ca/events<http://www.LudmerCentre.ca/events>) or register here<http://neuroevents.mcgill.ca/decoding/>.
Goal: To promote interaction and future global collaborations based on CFREF-funded initiatives at Western and McGill, as well as the newly launched Canada-Cuba-China research collaboration<http://ludmercentre.ca/canada-cuba-china-partnership-gets-1m-study-alzheimers/> and a Ludmer Centre EEG Platform initiative.
Dr Alan Evans<http://ludmercentre.ca/about-us/our-researchers/dr-alan-evans/>, Dr Robert Zatorre<http://www.zlab.mcgill.ca/> and Dr Adrien Owen are hosting the workshop. The workshop brings together investigators and trainees with complementary expertise in cognitive neuroscience, functional MRI, and EEG to discuss new ways in which EEG data could be used to extract signals of relevance to the study of mental states, both from a basic-science perspective and a clinical perspective.
Programme & Speakers: the Ludmer website<http://ludmercentre.ca/events/decoding-mental-states-using-eeg/>.
Renowned and international speakers include:

  *   Dr. Adrian Owen<http://www.owenlab.uwo.ca/>, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging, Western University, Toronto: Dr Owen has pioneered new techniques that combine neuroimaging with neuropsychological studies to reveal the secrets of the human brain. He is also a Scientific Director of Western University's BrainsCAN initiative, which received a substantial $66 million investment from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) - a significant boost to ongoing research in cognitive neuroscience and imaging at Western.
  *   Dr Srivas Chennu<https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sc785/>, eHealth Lecturer, University of Kent and Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge, UK: Dr Chennu's research focuses on how the brain mechanisms underlying consciousness are altered in sleep, sedation, meditation, and the vegetative and minimally conscious states. He has shown that electroencephalography can be used to characterise brain networks, measure cognition and even detect hidden awareness in non-responsive patients. This work has been published in The Lancet, Neurology, PLOS and Brain.
  *   Dr Pedro Valdés-Sosa, Director, Joint China-Cuba Lab for Frontiers Research in Translational Neurotechnology<https://www.neuroinformatics-collaboratory.org/> in Chengdu, China and Vice Director of Research, Cuban Neuroscience Center in Habana<http://www.cneuro.cu/nosotros/directivos/52-dra-vivian-elena-reigosa-crespo>, Cuba: Dr Valdes-Sosa leads theory and methodology research in EEG and fMRI. His extensive contributions, such as the inverse solutions of LORETA and VARETA, have been recognized worldwide and are advancing the field of multi-modal date integration with EEG, MEG, MRI and fMRI. His publications have appeared in all of the major electrophysiological and neuroimaging journals. He is a senior professor of the Higher Institute for Medical Sciences, full member of both the Cuban Academy of Sciences and the Latin American Academy of Sciences, an ex officio Program Chair of the Organization for European Union's Human Brain Mapping initiative and a member of the newly launched Canada-Cuba-China research collaboration.
  *   Dr Edmund Lalor<https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/people/30415577-edmund-c-lalor>, Associate Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience, University of Rochester, New York: Dr Lalor's research explores quantitative modelling approaches to the analysis of sensory electrophysiology in humans and to tackle cognitive and clinical neuroscience questions. Such a framework has two important advantages over more traditional approaches to this type of research: (1) it enables the examination of the neural processing of natural stimuli such as speech, music and video, and (2) it allows for improved spatiotemporal resolution and (accordingly) improved interpretability of non-invasively recorded neuro-electric responses to such naturalistic stimuli.
Location: Amphitheatre: de Grandpré Communications Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, 3801 University Street

Joanne Clark | Administrative Director/Directrice administratif
Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health
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