Archive for the ‘CogNeuro’ Category
Brain Dissection: Insula Anatomy
We just wrapped up the 2009 Summer Institute on Cognitive Neuroscience here at UCSB. There are a million stories to tell from the two weeks of the Summer Institute, but for this post I just wanted to upload a few pictures from the brain dissection lab that went on during the first week. Mark D’Esposito […]
Human Brain Mapping 2009 – Presentations
I want to thank everyone at the Human Brain Mapping conference for their excellent comments and insight on my research. I had an unbroken string of amazing conversations with researchers from around the world – it was a real treat. Below you will find copies of both posters that I presented at HBM along with […]
My first NIH grant proposal
My postdoc adviser Mike Miller and I spent several weeks last April writing a grant proposal requesting ARRA economic stimulus money to do some aging research. Mike has written several grants before, so he is a bit of a pro. In contrast I have never needed to submit a NIH grant proposal. I had steady […]
Voodoo Perspectives on Psychological Science
I received my May 2009 issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science in the mail last week. This is the issue containing the original Voodoo Correlations paper along with responses from, well, just about everybody. Man, is it chock-full of debate. I don’t know if I have ever seen a journal volume published with more commentary […]
The Dangers of Double Dipping (Voodoo IV)
A new article discussing non-independence errors has arrived on the scene, and it is quite good. Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Kyle Simmons, Patrick Bellgowan, and Chris Baker have authored a Nature Neuroscience paper called ‘Circular analysis in systems neuroscience: the dangers of double dipping‘. It is the same fundamental argument as the original Voodoo Correlations paper (now […]
Matlab finite() function warnings
The latest version of Matlab deprecated the finite() function in favor of isfinite(). This is all fine and dandy in terms of improving the scripting language, but this change currently causes a crapalanche of warnings to be thrown as you use SPM. Usually along the lines of: Warning: FINITE is obsolete and will be removed […]
Pacific Rim Neuroimaging 2009 Review
I just recently returned from the “New Horizons in Human Brain Imaging: A Focus on the Pacific Rim” conference in Waikoloa, Hawaii. Here are some of the highlights: – Kang Cheng showed some amazing results from high-resolution fMRI of visual cortex. He described some of the technical difficulties that he and his team have encountered […]
The OHBM has been good to me
Just got word that I was given a travel award for the Human Brain Mapping conference in June: http://ric.uthscsa.edu:9000/TravelAwards/awardees.html This year’s HBM conference is shaping up to be rather epic. I have two abstracts accepted for poster presentations, one of which was chosen for an oral presentation later that weekend. Now they are even giving […]
Using Caret for fMRI Visualization
Caret is an incredibly useful program for the calculation and visualization of brain data. Like most incredibly useful programs it is also quite complex and a bit daunting to approach. While looking at three-views is a staple of fMRI research, sometimes it is easier to get the ‘big picture’ from a cortical surface rendering. I […]
Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2009 Review
I had a great time at the 2009 meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) last weekend. This is a conference that I try to attend every year, and I have been successful in that goal for six years now. Below is a list of highlights from the conference. I want to take just a […]