Archive for the ‘CogNeuro’ Category
Holiday Presents for a Neurogeek
I know this post might be a bit late in the season to make much of an impact on your shopping plans, but if your loved ones can’t get enough neuroscience then here are some thoughts for great gifts. Some are specific to neuroscience, while others are more general and appropriate for any academic. Enjoy! […]
Quote of the Week – Logothetis
“fMRI is a measure of mass action. You almost have to be a professional moron to think you’re saying something profound about the neural mechanisms. You’re nowhere close to explaining what’s happening, but you have a nice framework, an excellent starting point.” ~ Nikos Logothetis (As seen in Science News)
Live Sectioning of HM’s Brain
The Brain Observatory at UCSD is doing a live feed of the histological sectioning of patient HM’s brain today. The feed will continue for the next two days while they slice through HM’s brain by fractions of a millimeter at a time. You can view the feed yourself at the following link: http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hm_live.php. The studies […]
The War on Fish: False Positive Horror Stories
Citizens of the Interwebs – we are in need of your assistance! My advisor Mike Miller and I have been asked to write a commentary in a major neuroimaging journal that discusses the importance of protecting against false positives (Type I error) in fMRI. This is essentially an extension of the arguments that we made […]
The Internet Found the Atlantic Salmon
The last 72 hours have seen an incredible increase in traffic here at prefrontal.org. To sum it up in a single sentence: the site has received as many hits in the last three days as it has during the past two years. Yeah, really. My activity graph on the WordPress Dashboard looks like this: It […]
The Story Behind the Atlantic Salmon
The Atlantic Salmon fMRI poster has garnered a fair amount of attention since its presentation at the Human Brain Mapping conference last June in San Francisco. So far the reaction from other researchers has been almost unanimously positive. A sizable number of people stopped by the poster while it was displayed and Rainer Goebel (of […]
Upcoming Talk: Bay Area Memory Meeting
I’ll be giving a short presentation on individual differences and fMRI experimental design at the upcoming Bay Area Memory Meeting (BAMM) on Monday, August 24th. If you are around Genentech Hall at the UCSF Mission Bay campus and have some time available in the late afternoon then you should definitely swing by!
The Middle Ground in Multiple Comparisons Correction
I got a note last week from a longtime colleague seeking advice on some reviewer comments of their latest paper. In their remarks the reviewer requested that the authors revert the corrected statistical threshold back to an uncorrected level of p < 0.001. The authors were left scratching their heads, wondering how they were going […]
Neuroimaging Statistics Workshop Videos
The Columbia University Department of Statistics hosted a workshop last month titled “Estimating Effects and Correlations in Neuroimaging Data”. Some great folks stopped by to give talks, including Ed Vul, Nikolas Kriegeskorte, Tor Wager, and Andrew Gelman. They recorded everything into Quicktime movies for those of us who couldn’t stop by – click the link […]
Atlantic Salmon – MRI Data
There have been some requests for the T1-weighted high-resolution anatomical MRI data of the Atlantic Salmon. Click on the link below and you can download the files in the ANALYZE file format. SalmonMRI.zip Load it up in SPM, take a screenshot, and presto, you have a fancy new desktop picture. If you want to have […]