From sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca Sat Feb 1 13:13:15 2025 From: sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca (Sylvain Baillet) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 18:13:15 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] UofT: Post-doctoral fellowship for developmental OPM-MEG studies. Message-ID: We are offering a post-doctoral fellowship for an applicant experienced in neuroimaging/MEG data analyses, particularly with computational modelling skills, for a 2-year position starting this spring, 2025, supporting the establishment of a normative developmental database of OPM-MEG data. These data will scaffold on our already large developmental OPM dataset (with children from 1-5 years of age, plus adults (n>250) acquired with the Cerca OPM-MEG system) and extending this through to 17 years of age. Several different task protocols and resting state are included, as well as ongoing clinical populations (e.g., children with autism), allowing for a range of analysis avenues. The position will be based at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, affiliated with the University of Toronto. This position is funded by a joint UK/Canada grant, and multi-site collaborations with the University of Nottingham and Cardiff University will be important. If interested, please send your CV and a short letter of interest to Dr. Margot J. Taylor (margot.taylor at sickkids.ca ) before March 1st, 2025. please feel free to share with colleagues. thanks very much, margot Dr. M.J. 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Communications Centre, The Neuro Host: Boris Bernhardt [image003.png] Abstract: The event segmentation theory posits that mental models, referred to as event models, are constructed from prior knowledge and incoming perceptual information to interpret and predict ongoing experiences. When these event models generate a significant prediction error, they are replaced by a more appropriate model, resulting in event segmentation?the chunking of continuous experiences into discrete events. Alex Barnett's research explores how shared knowledge affects the segmentation of experiences, cortical representational patterns, and memory. Findings indicate that prior knowledge in a domain is associated with better memory and more synchronized event segmentation in individuals with high domain knowledge compared to those with low domain knowledge. Additionally, the research demonstrates that as individuals accumulate shared knowledge and experiences, brain synchrony during event encoding increases across a broad set of cortical regions, including sensory, attentional, and higher-order networks. Furthermore, people who recall events more similarly tend to exhibit shared multivariate patterns in the posterior medial cortex. These experiments provide insights into how prior knowledge and experience are utilized by the brain, influencing the way events are experienced and recalled. The Feindel Seminar Series at The Neuro Advances the vision of Dr. William Feindel (1918?2014), Former Director of the Neuro (1972?1984), to constantly bridge the clinical and research realms. The talks will highlight the latest advances and discoveries in neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuroimaging. Visit the event web page for more information. 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Communications Centre, The Neuro* > > Host: Boris Bernhardt > > [image: image003.png] > > > *Abstract:* The event segmentation theory posits that mental models, > referred to as event models, are constructed from prior knowledge and > incoming perceptual information to interpret and predict ongoing > experiences. When these event models generate a significant prediction > error, they are replaced by a more appropriate model, resulting in event > segmentation?the chunking of continuous experiences into discrete events. > Alex Barnett's research explores how shared knowledge affects the > segmentation of experiences, cortical representational patterns, and > memory. Findings indicate that prior knowledge in a domain is associated > with better memory and more synchronized event segmentation in individuals > with high domain knowledge compared to those with low domain knowledge. > Additionally, the research demonstrates that as individuals accumulate > shared knowledge and experiences, brain synchrony during event encoding > increases across a broad set of cortical regions, including sensory, > attentional, and higher-order networks. Furthermore, people who recall > events more similarly tend to exhibit shared multivariate patterns in the > posterior medial cortex. These experiments provide insights into how prior > knowledge and experience are utilized by the brain, influencing the way > events are experienced and recalled. > > *The Feindel Seminar Series at The Neuro* > Advances the vision of Dr. William Feindel (1918?2014), Former Director of > the Neuro (1972?1984), to constantly bridge the clinical and research > realms. 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In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear all, Thank you, everyone, for the great responses we received from the NeuroHub Training Workshops 2025 - Survey. We already started to work on tailoring the workshops based on your needs and interests. The survey will close Friday night, and the winner of the draw will be contacted directly. If you did not have a chance yet, please make sure to complete the survey ! Thank you, and have a great day, Xuan Mai PHAM User Support, Training and Documentation Administrator [image: NeuroHub_RGB.png] | CBRAIN | McGill University | Cell: 647-706-9281 | xuanmai.pham at mcin.ca On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 5:34?PM Xuan Mai Pham wrote: > Dear all, > > > The NeuroHub /CBRAIN platform > provides a unified approach to managing, processing and analyzing data > across scientific disciplines (Neuroscience, Genetics, Genomics, > behavioural..), making it easier for researchers to collaborate and share > their work to drive scientific progress forward. > > > With NeuroHub, the scientific community has access to the tools > they need to advance their > research and push the boundaries of what's possible. > > NeuroHub also makes data analysis > easier, faster and reproducible. Using our platform, you can run complex > tools and pipelines on > high-performance computing with a click of a button, saving time and > resources. > > > We are happy to share that NeuroHub/CBRAIN is launching a series of > training workshops that are coming soon. The training workshops will offer > sessions for both beginners and experienced platform users. > > > To tailor the workshops, we invite people to complete the NeuroHub > Workshop Survey . Doing so will > provide us with key information to design the workshops specifically for > the audience's interests, and you'll also be entered into a draw for a* $25 > Amazon gift card, *and we would love to share it with the BIC community. > > It is a great opportunity to learn more about how high-performance > computing helps researchers to perform, collect and analyze faster. If you > have any questions, please let me know. > > Thank you for helping us create the best learning experience for you! > > > Complete the NeuroHub Workshop Survey > > > > Xuan Mai PHAM > User Support, Training and Documentation Administrator > [image: NeuroHub_RGB.png] | CBRAIN | McGill University | > > Cell: 647-706-9281 | xuanmai.pham at mcin.ca > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amir.shmuel at mcgill.ca Wed Feb 5 14:35:50 2025 From: amir.shmuel at mcgill.ca (Amir Shmuel, Dr) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 19:35:50 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] Call for seminar speakers: postdocs and grad students In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello everyone, I am inviting postdocs and grad students to speak in the BIC Postdocs and Students Seminar. You?ll be able to present your research (~20 minutes), manage a brief discussion on your research (~5 minutes), and continue brain storming over lunch in the Jeanne-Timmins Fouyer. Please send an email of interest to me and Sridar, including the title of your talk. I am looking forward to hearing from you, Amir. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amir.shmuel at mcgill.ca Thu Feb 6 17:04:23 2025 From: amir.shmuel at mcgill.ca (Amir Shmuel, Dr) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 22:04:23 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] Monday, February 10, 11:30 AM: The BIC Postdocs and Students' Seminar In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello all, For pizza and light drink, please RSVP by Sunday night here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6NNZMTR The next BIC Postdocs and Students seminar will take place at 11:30 AM on Monday, February 10. Venue: de Grandpr? Communications Centre at the Neuro. We will have 2 speakers and 2 corresponding discussions on: 1. AI-based segmentation of structural MRI, and 2. fMRI-based representation of speech conversations in the human auditory cortex Pizza and soft drinks will be provided after the seminar, at 12:30 PM - courtesy of the BIC director (for attendees of the seminar). Presenter: Gurucharan Marthi Krishna Kumar; Shmuel Lab Title: NestedMorph: Enhancing Deformable Medical Image Registration with Nested Attention Mechanisms Summary: Deformable image registration is crucial for aligning medical images in a non-linear fashion across different modalities, allowing for precise spatial correspondence between varying anatomical structures. This paper presents NestedMorph, a novel network utilizing a Nested Attention Fusion approach to improve intra-subject deformable registration between T1-weighted (T1w) MRI and diffusion MRI (dMRI) data. NestedMorph integrates high-resolution spatial details from an encoder with semantic information from a decoder using a multi-scale framework, enhancing both local and global feature extraction. Our model notably outperforms existing methods, including CNN-based approaches like VoxelMorph, MIDIR, and CycleMorph, as well as Transformer-based models such as TransMorph and ViT-V-Net, and traditional techniques like NiftyReg and SyN. Evaluations on the HCP dataset demonstrate that NestedMorph achieves superior performance across key metrics, including SSIM, HD95, and SDlogJ, with the highest SSIM of 0.89, and the lowest HD95 of 2.5 and SDlogJ of 0.22. These results highlight NestedMorph's ability to capture both local and global image features effectively, leading to superior registration performance. The promising outcomes of this study underscore NestedMorph's potential to significantly advance deformable medical image registration, providing a robust framework for future research and clinical applications. Presenter: Etienne Abassi Zatorre Lab Title: The representation of speech conversations in the human auditory cortex Auditory perception is shaped by human social nature, and we rely heavily on hearing to navigate our social world through conversations, including not just participating in it but also listening to others' conversation. While the neural basis of speech understanding has been studied at word or sentence levels, the influence of social context on processing entire conversations and its interaction with semantics remains underexplored. To explore this, we conducted a 7T fMRI study using AI-generated auditory stimuli to examine how the brain processes conversations from a third-person perspective. Healthy male and female young adults listened to our stimuli while we manipulated social context (two-speaker dialogues vs. one-speaker monologues) and semantic context (intact vs. sentence-scrambled conversations). Whole-brain analyses revealed significant effects of semantic context in the left superior temporal sulcus (STS), with stronger activity for scrambled over intact conversations. While social context alone had no direct effect, it interacted with semantic context: the left STS showed greater differences in activity between scrambled and intact dialogues compared to monologues. ROI analysis in the functionally localized speech-selective auditory cortex supported these findings. A multivariate classifier trained on neural data demonstrated better discrimination of individual sentences when embedded in dialogues rather than monologues, suggesting that social context sharpens the perceptual representation of sentences. Overall, the study highlights the influence of both semantic and social contexts on neural speech processing. It suggests specialized mechanisms in the left STS for processing prototypical conversations, such as intact dialogues, emphasizing the importance of considering social and semantic factors in understanding speech processing at the large-scale level of a whole conversation. These findings raise questions about the predictive or other neural mechanisms active during naturalistic speech perception. See you all, Amir. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amir.shmuel at mcgill.ca Mon Feb 10 10:58:31 2025 From: amir.shmuel at mcgill.ca (Amir Shmuel, Dr) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:58:31 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] Today, 11:30 AM: 2 interesting lectures, pizza, and light drink In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The next BIC Postdocs and Students seminar will take place at 11:30 AM on Monday, February 10. Venue: de Grandpr? Communications Centre at the Neuro. We will have 2 speakers and 2 corresponding discussions on: 1. AI-based segmentation of structural MRI, and 2. fMRI-based representation of speech conversations in the human auditory cortex Pizza and soft drinks will be provided after the seminar, at 12:30 PM - courtesy of the BIC director (for attendees of the seminar). Presenter: Gurucharan Marthi Krishna Kumar; Shmuel Lab Title: NestedMorph: Enhancing Deformable Medical Image Registration with Nested Attention Mechanisms Summary: Deformable image registration is crucial for aligning medical images in a non-linear fashion across different modalities, allowing for precise spatial correspondence between varying anatomical structures. This paper presents NestedMorph, a novel network utilizing a Nested Attention Fusion approach to improve intra-subject deformable registration between T1-weighted (T1w) MRI and diffusion MRI (dMRI) data. NestedMorph integrates high-resolution spatial details from an encoder with semantic information from a decoder using a multi-scale framework, enhancing both local and global feature extraction. Our model notably outperforms existing methods, including CNN-based approaches like VoxelMorph, MIDIR, and CycleMorph, as well as Transformer-based models such as TransMorph and ViT-V-Net, and traditional techniques like NiftyReg and SyN. Evaluations on the HCP dataset demonstrate that NestedMorph achieves superior performance across key metrics, including SSIM, HD95, and SDlogJ, with the highest SSIM of 0.89, and the lowest HD95 of 2.5 and SDlogJ of 0.22. These results highlight NestedMorph's ability to capture both local and global image features effectively, leading to superior registration performance. The promising outcomes of this study underscore NestedMorph's potential to significantly advance deformable medical image registration, providing a robust framework for future research and clinical applications. Presenter: Etienne Abassi Zatorre Lab Title: The representation of speech conversations in the human auditory cortex Auditory perception is shaped by human social nature, and we rely heavily on hearing to navigate our social world through conversations, including not just participating in it but also listening to others' conversation. While the neural basis of speech understanding has been studied at word or sentence levels, the influence of social context on processing entire conversations and its interaction with semantics remains underexplored. To explore this, we conducted a 7T fMRI study using AI-generated auditory stimuli to examine how the brain processes conversations from a third-person perspective. Healthy male and female young adults listened to our stimuli while we manipulated social context (two-speaker dialogues vs. one-speaker monologues) and semantic context (intact vs. sentence-scrambled conversations). Whole-brain analyses revealed significant effects of semantic context in the left superior temporal sulcus (STS), with stronger activity for scrambled over intact conversations. While social context alone had no direct effect, it interacted with semantic context: the left STS showed greater differences in activity between scrambled and intact dialogues compared to monologues. ROI analysis in the functionally localized speech-selective auditory cortex supported these findings. A multivariate classifier trained on neural data demonstrated better discrimination of individual sentences when embedded in dialogues rather than monologues, suggesting that social context sharpens the perceptual representation of sentences. Overall, the study highlights the influence of both semantic and social contexts on neural speech processing. It suggests specialized mechanisms in the left STS for processing prototypical conversations, such as intact dialogues, emphasizing the importance of considering social and semantic factors in understanding speech processing at the large-scale level of a whole conversation. These findings raise questions about the predictive or other neural mechanisms active during naturalistic speech perception. See you all, Amir. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Mendola > Professeure d'ophtalmologie et de sciences visuelles, Universit? McGill > > Lundi 17 f?vrier 2025 > 13 h 00 HNE > LIEN ZOOM > H?te: Justine Cl?ry > > > *La pr?sentation sera en anglais > > Feindel Brain and Mind Seminar Series: > The Neural Networks and Oscillations Producing Dynamic Visual Awareness in Binocular Rivalry > Janine D. Mendola > Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, McGill University > > Monday, February 17, 2025 > 1 p.m. EST > ZOOM LINK > Host Justine Cl?ry > > Abstract: Janine D. Mendola will discuss human fMRI and MEG studies of binocular rivalry, including recent work on individual differences. Alternations between bistable percepts provide a powerful platform for studying visual awareness and suppression. The frequency tagging technique is used to record whole-brain SSVEPs, with analyses of power, coherence, and connectivity. In untagged data, the role of alpha band signals in perceptual stabilization is explored. One theme is the comparison of well-matched binocular states, such as different types of rivalry. Another theme is the non-invasive measurement of interocular inhibition, which may be a partially heritable trait. Additionally, potential relationships to binocular vision disorders, such as amblyopia, may be considered. > > The Feindel Seminar Series at The Neuro > Advances the vision of Dr. William Feindel (1918?2014), Former Director of the Neuro (1972?1984), to constantly bridge the clinical and research realms. The talks will highlight the latest advances and discoveries in neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuroimaging. > > Visit the event web page for more information. > > Contact: Debbie Rashcovsky > ? > ? > ? > ? > ? > ? > ? > ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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