CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-14 14:11:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

For your everyday probability-distribution questions!!!

2013-04-30 12:38:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

#MEG  
 @Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.

A picture of a model of the first MEG system, of the first MEG measurement ever, an ECG, and of the first MEG measurement of brain activity, alpha rhythm.

I find it personally amusing that these "firsts" are actually what often decreases the power of our analyses and gets thrown away through either ICA (ECG) or averaging (ECG - unless you are very unlucky - and stimulus-unrelated alpha).

2013-04-17 15:20:53 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 14 +1s)

Legal consequences for doctoring any kind of data (not just medical research data)? Not a completely bad idea, if you ask me!

2013-04-09 06:48:12 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

#openaccess   #spamming   #pseudoscience  

Interesting piece about the "dark side of open access", i.e., those journals that spam the mailbox of academics with invitations to submit papers and editorial-board opportunities.

2013-04-05 01:29:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

#fmri #dream_decoding

Sounds thrilling: decoding dreams from fMRI data!!!!!

2013-03-22 16:04:07 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

#exercise   #cognitive_control   #fMRI  

Physical activity appears to enhance some aspects of cognitive control in children: I'm not a kid, but I'd better work on that jogging!

2013-03-20 13:02:38 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

The title says it all: functional imaging of the brain at cellular resolution with frames captured every second: WOW!!!

Make sure to check the videos! A nice non-technical summary here: http://www.nature.com/news/flashing-fish-brains-filmed-in-action-1.12621

2013-03-19 02:26:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#control_networks   #fMRI  

Excellent overview of (domain general) task-control networks in the brain. Highly relevant, independently of the particular function you are interested in!

2013-03-15 17:17:00 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

#dualstream   #review  

A very informative and quite recent review of research on what/where(how) systems in vision and audition, and of the study of their interaction.

2013-03-04 00:06:56 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

2013-03-01 13:37:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#openaccess  

Very exciting news for open-access science!

2013-02-27 11:23:51 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-02-10 14:12:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#fmri   #analysismethods  

Analyze your fMRI time-series without knowledge of the experimental paradigm: the analysis method presented in this paper can recover blocks and spikes of activity for you.

2013-01-31 19:36:29 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 3 +1s)

#sensing   #music_interfaces   #paper_sensors

Paper contact sensors for the masses (buttons, force/pressure, position, bending): very affordable sustainable technology distributed in build-your-own kits, developed by a Music Technology student at McGill: +Rodolphe Koehly

2013-01-28 14:01:19 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 4 +1s)

#quantum_mechanics   #biology   #retina   #smell

Very interesting BBC article about the possibility of quantum effects in biology, ranging from photosynthesis to sensory processes

2013-01-26 08:58:22 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

#neuroscience   #impact_factor  

The blobology of academic success, or, how to forecast impact factor based on the cortical anatomy of your brain-imaging effects. Non-speech auditory people like me will be delighted: I should probably open a pizzeria :-)

2013-01-17 12:27:23 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 9 +1s)

2013-01-16 20:17:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

#hearingloss : "Hearing restored with new hair cells"

Looks very promising: "An experimental drug can restore hearing in deaf mice by regenerating sound-sensitive cells in the inner ear."

2013-01-16 14:26:17 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

#retraction  

After reading a retraction notice for two 2009 papers published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, I got to find this nice blog on retraction of scientific papers: well done Retraction Watch!

2013-01-15 15:34:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

#statistics   #robust    #Matlab  

Stats geeks will be interested in this tool, available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/robustcorrtool/

2013-01-15 12:35:33 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

#face   #perception

Some new goodies for face perception (and possibly voice perception) people:

See also http://goo.gl/0gB7K for developmental processes.

2013-01-15 04:53:02 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

This surely deserves some further public attention. What a disgrace for MIT might all of this prove true....

2013-01-13 15:49:58 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Leonard Susskind of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics discusses the indestructability of information and the nature of black holes in a lecture entitled The World As Hologram.

2013-01-13 13:55:22 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Family statement at the end of page.

2012-12-27 18:24:26 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Brilliant empirical demonstrations on 2012!
Not sure which one I prefer: "Driving when drunk is unsafe" or "Keeping guns out of the hands of troubled individuals saves lives"?

2012-12-01 10:15:58 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

#EEG   #music  

"When people coordinate actions with one another, small networks within the brain and, remarkably, between the brains are formed, especially when the activities need to be precisely aligned in time, for example at the joint play onset of a piece"

2012-11-22 15:30:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

  #sonification   #running  

Joggers will love this :-)

2012-10-18 15:50:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#photography  

Let's help these promising photographers buy back their stolen gear!!

2012-07-22 13:56:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

#hearing   #attention

The auditory counterpart of the well known "gorilla blindness" visual effect.

2012-07-16 14:12:45 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

#neuroscience   #hearing   #MVPA  

We are surrounded by largely different sound-producing "objects": a thunder rumbling, a baby crying, a fly buzzing. How do brains represent them? In this study, we show that rather fine-grained spatial variations in cortical activity contain a great deal of information about naturalistic sounds. Spatial activity patterns not only contain information about low-level sound properties (e.g., loudness), but appear to go beyond low-level analyses by representing abstractly whether sound-producing objects are living, or involve the activity of a human agent.

2012-06-27 10:41:57 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

#openaccess #spam  
An interesting (and potentially useful) blog on "predatory" open-access journals and publishers. Critical readers: check your spam mail advertising scientific journals and conferences, and compare with the list on the blog.

2012-05-04 22:03:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

#walking #audition #haptics

What's the use of vibrating shoe soles on blindfolded and temporarily deafened experiment participants? They help us with answering a simple question relevant to our everyday life: How do our senses allow us to identify what we are walking on?

I am proud to share the craziest experiment I have ever conducted!! :-)

2012-05-02 08:07:15 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 1 +1s)

#ExperimentalPsychology #Methods

Interesting paper on order biases in the evaluation of preference.

via +Scoop.it

2012-04-29 16:23:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

#peer_review

Hilarious description of reviewer personalities: which character are you?

2012-04-20 08:32:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

#neuroscience #metabolism #connectivity

On the determinants of brain network organization: it is shaped by a trade-off between cost (metabolism, materials) and adaptive value of connectivity patterns (anatomical, functional). Surely worth a read.

2012-04-16 09:30:34 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

#neuroscience #voice #emotions

Laughter and crying don't go hand in hand! Females laugh with females and males with males, but males feel for crying females, and females for crying males. Rings a bell?

Interesting fMRI study on the effect of the gender of listeners and speakers on the processing of emotional vocalizations.

2012-04-15 07:11:09 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

Mathematical Model of the Brain Developed

Taking complex systems such as the Internet and social networks as examples, a group of experts at the University of Cambridge was able to create a mathematical model of the brain. Though simple, their tool provides a surprisingly complete statistical account of how different regions interact.

2012-04-15 06:50:46 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

#vision #psychophysics #motion

A nice issue of Vision Research focusing on visual motion.

Includes an interesting paper about walking aftereffects, i.e., aftereffects induced by observing moving actors (http://goo.gl/3onNi). Take-home message: walking aftereffects behave like traditional high-level visual aftereffects.

2012-04-11 14:02:10 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

It began with a frustrated blogpost by a distinguished mathematician. Tim Gowers and his colleagues had been grumbling among themselves for several years about the rising costs of academic journals.

They, like many other academics, were upset that the work produced by their peers, and funded largely by taxpayers, sat behind the paywalls of private publishing houses that charged UK universities hundreds of millions of pounds a year for the privilege of access.

There had been talk last year that a major scientific body might come out in public to highlight the problem and rally scientists to speak out against the publishing companies, but nothing was happening fast.

So, in January this year, Gowers wrote an article on his blog declaring that he would henceforth decline to submit to or review papers for any academic journal published by Elsevier, the largest publisher of... more »

2012-04-11 11:16:10 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

#neuroscience #Information

Nice review of information-theoretic approaches to analysis of cell-recording data.

2012-04-10 16:43:02 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

#neuroscience #fMRI

What lies in the future of "blobology"? A nice and short overview of promising trends in fMRI research.

2012-04-08 10:02:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Interactive 3D model of the human brain

The Brain Surface and Tractography Viewer was developed by Dan Ginsburg and +Rudolph Pienaar. The different colours represent the different directions of the neural tracks. Inferior/superior are blue, lateral/medial are red, and anterior/posterior are green.

Take a look: goo.gl/dx6qI - (requires Google Chrome)

The imagery is not as detailed as the static pictures posted by +Owen Phillips earlier this week. But it's nice to be able to interact with it, to rotate and explore the inner connectivity of the brain. Note, this requires a WebGL enabled browser such as Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.

2012-04-15 08:14:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#neuroscience #vision #face

A must read for neuroscientists of vision! Looking forward to the description of between-study differences in methods for identifying fusiform face area :-)

2012-04-05 14:37:52 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 0 +1s)

Want to learn more about this week's episode with Stephen Hawking? Check this link out now! And don't forget to tune in Thursday at 8/7c only #CBS!!

2012-04-04 09:45:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

#neuroscience
Mother Nature does love simplicity: brain wiring appears to have a rather "uncomplicated" structure, according to this study.

2012-04-03 06:32:34 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

#matlab #programming #psychology

A very useful guide to an indispensable tool in the kit of modern-day behavioral scientists.

2012-03-22 09:40:17 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

#neuroscience #fMRI #ICA #noise

Cleaning up your EPI time series using ICA+multi-echo sequences!!

Impressive method for separating BOLD vs. non-BOLD contributions to fMRI data. Surely on my checklist!

2012-03-21 10:27:53 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Too good to be true: Publication bias in two prominent studies from experimental psychology

A nice paper by Bloesch et al.: Publication bias is observed when the rate of null hypothesis rejections in a set of studies exceeds what expected based on a power analysis. Might this be a good metric to measure the scientific soundness of a scientist, or of a scientific journal?

Additional goodies: list of tricks for inflating your publication bias.

2012-03-08 16:15:04 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

#statistics #information

Very interesting paper found while looking for non-linear measures of association. Dying to find out about the reliability and computational demands for this measure!

2012-02-22 09:35:02 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#neuroscience #fMRI #MVPA

Are we approaching the end of the golden era of multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) of fMRI data?