Cognitive Brain Mapping Group

Meeting Particulars:

  • The group meets from noon to 1 PM on Wednesdays

  • Evanston Campus: Tech L251

  • Chicago Campus: Wieboldt room 421
    unless otherwise noted

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Presentation Guidelines:

  • Presentations should last about 20-30 minutes to allow for questions and discussion

  • A variety of presentation types are encouraged, including: completed research; data analysis; project proposals; journal club on relevant technical or topical issues; invited speakers

  • Todd Parrish organizes regular sessions covering a variety of methodological issues. For Spring 2012, these Methods Journal Clubs will focus on diffusion and DTI methods. Contact him if you have suggestions for future topics.

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    Schedule for Spring 2012

    28-Mar-12 - Xue Wang presents Methods JC
    Understanding Diffusion MR Imaging Techniques
    Please download and read this paper for the discussion:
    Understanding Diffusion MR Imaging Techniques

    29-Mar-12 - SPECIAL EVENT: Roberto Cabeza Talk
    Compensatory Brain Activity and Connectivity in the Aging Brain
    The talk will be on Thursday at 12:15 to 1:30 PM in the Hughes Auditorium (Chicago Campus).

    4-Apr-12 - Kia Nobre, Oxford University
    How Memory Shapes Perception

    11-Apr-12 - Todd Parrish presents Methods JC
    Voxelwise analysis of multi-subject diffusion data and Geometric structure of brain fiber pathways
    Please download and read these two papers for the discussion:
    Voxelwise analysis of multi-subject diffusion data
    Geometric structure of brain fiber pathways

    18-Apr-12 - Todd Parrish presents Methods JC
    25 pitfalls in the analysis of diffusion MRI data
    Please download and read this paper for the discussion:
    Diffusion Pitfalls.

    2-May-12 - Todd Parrish presents Methods JC
    DTS and DTI of the Arcuate Fasciculus; Changes in Gray and White Matter Due to Learning
    Please download and read these papers for the discussion:
    DTI and DTS in Arcuate
    Plasticity in Gray and White Matter.

    SPECIAL EVENT
    Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 4 PM
    Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar / CogSci Seminar, Swift 107
    Clifford Saron, UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain
    Intensive meditation practice: Longitudinal effects on perception, attention, emotion, and physiology

    18-May-12 - SPECIAL EVENT: 2012 Data blitz
    DATA BLITZ! DATA BLITZ!
    The data blitz will be on the Chicago campus this year and will be held on Friday, May 18, in Ward 5-230. The Data Blitz is the highlight of the year for the Training Program in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition and The Cognitive Brain Mapping Group. It will include a set of 5-min talks from selected students, postdocs, and faculty. The Data Blitz will start at 1:30 PM with lunch. Talks will begin at 2 PM. There will again be a special award for one speaker, though only speakers ending on time will be eligible (First place=free burrito card; Second place=free scanning session).

    23-May-12 - Wen Li, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    Encoding Threat in the Sensory Brain


    30-May-12 - Todd Parrish presents Methods JC
    Title TBD

    Archive of Past Schedules

    Winter 2012

    18-Jan-12 - Todd Parrish presents Methods JC
    Combining field strengths on auditory fMRI group analyses and Effects of static magnetic fields on cognition, vital signs and sensory perception
    Please download and read these two papers for the discussion:
    Combining Field Strengths
    Effects of Static Fields

    1-Feb-12 - Todd Parrish presents Methods JC
    Neurovascular coupling; Ultrahigh field systems
    Please download and read these two papers for the discussion:
    Ultra-high field systems
    Neurovascular coupling

    8-Feb-12 - CANCELLED
    Satirical article to download: Superego, Ego, and Id

    15-Feb-12 - Todd Parrish presents Methods JC
    Test-Retest Varibility in fMRI and Text from fMRI
    Please download and read these two papers for the discussion:
    Test-Retest Variability Underlying fMRI Measurements
    Generating Text from Functional Brain Images

    22-Feb-12 - Aya Tova Meltzer-Asscher and Jennifer Mack
    Neural correlates of recovery of sentence processing impairments: Design and preliminary control data

    29-Feb-12 - Lei Wang and Kate Alpert
    Demonstration of the NU neuroimaging data archive

    7-Mar-12 - Kati Gigler
    Investigating the cognitive and neural bases of working memory training

    14-Mar-12 - Sean Deeny
    Designing an EEG study of Cognitive Workload During Prosthetic Use

    21-Mar-12 - No CBMG; Spring Break

    Fall 2011

    28-Sept-11 - Todd Parrish
    Methodological Discussion: The Resting State
    Please download and read this paper for the discussion: Intrinsic Functional Connectivity As a Tool For Human Connectomics: Theory, Properties, and Optimization. Van Dijk et al. 2010.

    5-Oct-11 - Pei Ching-Chang
    Resting-state functional connectivity and receptor expression of NAc in the animal model of neuropathic pain
    For background reading, please download this paper: Anticorrelated resting-state functional connectivity in awake rate brain. Liang et al. 2011.

    12-Oct-11 - Todd Parrish
    Methodological Discussion: On the Relationship Between Seed-Based and ICA-Based Measures of Functional Connectivity
    Please download and read this paper for the discussion: Joel et al, 2011.

    19-Oct-11 - Chris McNorgan
    Unimodal Auditory Cortex Becomes Less Unimodal With Reading Experience

    26-Oct-11 - Todd Parrish
    Methods Journal Club: Three papers on default mode network (resting state)
    Please download and read these three papers for the discussion:
    Classification of Alzheimer Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Normal Cognitive Status with Large-Scale Network Analysis Based on Resting-State fMRI
    MRI Magnetic Field Stimulates Rotational Sensors of the Brain
    The influence of head motion on intrinsic functional connectivity MRI

    2-Nov-11 - Daniel Sanchez (15 min.) and Robin Nusslock (20-30 min.)
    Sanchez: How I learned to stop worrying and love implicit motor learning
    Nusslock: Abnormalities in reward-related brain function across mood disorders

    9-Nov-11 - Daniele Procissi
    Methods Journal Club: Small animal brain neuroimaging resources at NU Chicago Campus
    Quantitative pharmacologic MRI: Mapping the cerebral blood volume response to cocaine in dopamine transporter knockout mice

    16-Nov-11 - Cancelled due to annual SFN meeting

    23-Nov-11 - Todd Parrish
    Methods Journal Club: Multiplexed Echo Planar Imaging for Sub-Second Whole Brain FMRI and Fast Diffusion Imaging
    Multiplexed EPI

    30-Nov-11 - Julia Schuchard
    Implicit and Explicit Learning in Aphasia: An Artificial Grammar Learning Study

    7-Dec-11 - Julia Mossbridge
    Methods Journal Club: Random-forest classification with Matlab
    Optional very useful paper: Classification and Regression by randomForest

    14-Dec-11 - Jane Wang
    Task performance-related reorganization of functional connectivity reveals processing on multiple network scales

    Winter/Spring 2011

    *Please note new Evanston room starting this quarter -- Tech L251

    19-Jan-11 - Daniel J. Sanchez, Reber Lab
    Motor Sequence Learning Rate Examined with the SISL Task

    23-Feb-11 - Melanie Wilke and Igor Kagan, Anderson Lab, CalTech
    Intra- and interhemispheric interactions during spatial decision-making: behaving monkey fMRI, inactivation and physiology studies

    2-Mar-11 - Aya Meltzer-Asscher, Thompson Lab
    Neural correlates of ambiguous and unambiguous verb processing

    9-Mar-11 - Heather D. Lucas, Paller Lab
    Many processes lead to recognition: Electrophysiological correlates of familiarity derived from short-term masked repetition

    23-Mar-11 - Alex Baria, Apkarian Lab
    The spectral structure and function of BOLD in the brain

    6-Apr-11 - no meeting due to annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting

    4-May-11 - Konrad Kording, Deparment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Physiology, and Applied Mathematics
    Uncertainty in sensorimotor integration and its neural representation

    13-May-11 - Annual Data Blitz, Room 107 Swift Hall, Evanston campus

    18-May-11 Javeria Ali Hashmi, Apkarian Lab
    Brain mechanisms of placebo effects in a clinical drug trial for chronic back pain

    25-May-11 Bogdan Petre, Apkarian Lab
    Morphological and functional reorganization of the limbic system predicts transition from acute to chronic back pain in humans

    Fall 2010

    22-Sept-10 - Robert Hurley, PhD, Mesulam Lab
    NUIN Post-Defense Dissertation Presentation
    Mechanisms of Anomia in Primary Progressive Aphasia

    29-Sept-10 - Todd Parrish
    Is the old Trio still old? How different is it from the new one?

    3-Nov-10 - Marco Tullio Liuzza, University of Rome La Sapienza
    Gaze following. The importance of society and culture in modulating a reflexive-like behaviour

    10-Nov-10 - Yangqing (Lucie) Xu, Franconeri lab
    Spatial attention shifts in the perception of ambiguous object structure

    1-Dec-10 - Ali Khan, Simon Fraser University
    Improving brain registration and segmentation using anatomical guidance and intelligent atlas selection

    8-Dec-10 - Christine Wu Nordahl, University of California at Davis MIND Institute
    Brain Development in the First 5 Years of Life: Tackling the Heterogeneity of Autism Spectrum Disorders
    (NOTE change of room in Chicago to Ward 5-230)

    Winter/Spring 2010

    13-Jan-10 - Matthew Schroeder, MSc, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
    Working Memory Tasks Alter Functional Networks in Schizophrenia

    20-Jan-10 - Vania Apkarian, Department of Physiology
    A longitudinal study of back pain, or, who is hogging the scanner?

    27-Jan-10 - Jerome Prado, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
    Distinct representations of subtraction and multiplication in the neural systems for numerosity and language

    3-Feb-10 - Mona Lisa Chanda, Department of Physiology
    Pain characteristic differences between subacute and chronic back pain patients

    10-Feb-10 - Micheal Greicius, M.D., Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford Scool of Medicine
    The Default-Mode Network: How Is This Intrinsic Connectivity Network Different from All Others?

    17-Feb-10 - Guillermo Cecchi, Reseach Staff Member, Biometaphorical Computing, IBM
    Predictive Modeling of Chronic pain

    24-Feb-10 - David Borsook, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
    Imaging drugs and disease

    17-Mar-10 - Marwan Baliki, Department of Physiology, Northwestern University
    Unique cortical morphological prints for different chronic pain conditions in humans

    7-Apr-10 - Brian R. Levinthal, Franconeri Lab, Department of Psychology
    Dividing attention across the visual hemifields

    21-Apr-10 - Steven Franconeri, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University
    Spatial relationship judgments as a sequence of attentional shifts

    5-May-10 - Bharath Chandrasekaran, Northwestern University
    Subcortical and cortical contributions to auditory learning

    19-May-10 - Alex Baria, Northwestern University
    Frequency distribution of the BOLD signal in the brain

    26-May-10 - Marc Ettlinger, Wong Lab, Northwestern University
    The interaction of memory and language learning

    30-Jun-10 - Dana Strait, Music Cognition, Northwestern University
    Auditory expertise affects cortical variability during selective attention


    Fall 2009

    11-Nov-09 - Alex Baria, Department of Physiology
    Autonomic Signals and Pain

    18-Nov-09 - Matthew Smith, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
    Neural Correlates of Empathic Perspective-Taking in Schizophrenia (NCEPTS)

    25-Nov-09 - Todd Parrish, Center for Advanced MRI
    New Features at CAMRI

    2-Dec-09 - Derin Cobia, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
    Relationships between neuroanatomical abnormalities and cognitive functioning in schizophrenia

    Winter/Spring 2009

    January 7, 2009 - Adam Safron (Bailey Lab)
    Neural Correlates of Sexual Orientation

    January 21, 2009 - Psychiatry Grand Rounds, 11:30 AM to 1 PM
    Deanna Barch, Washington University, St. Louis
    Pritzker Auditorium, Feinberg Pavilion, Chicago campus
    Schizophrenia: Losing Control Over Thoughts, Memories and Emotions

    January 28, 2009 - Psychiatry Grand Rounds, 11:30 AM to 1 PM
    Steven Small, University of Chicago
    Pritzker Auditorium, Feinberg Pavilion, Chicago campus
    The Chicago Cubs

    February 4, 2009 - Rob Hurley (Mesulam Lab)
    Electrophysiology of Object Naming In Primary Progressive Aphasia

    February 11, 2009 - Joan Chiao - to lead discussion on these papers:
    Vul paper   Lieberman paper   Jabbi paper
    Voodoo correlations: Separating the wheat from the chaff

    February 18, 2009- Donna Bridge (Chiao Lab)
    Conceptual social power and neurocognitive mechanisms of math performance

    February 25, 2009 - Marwan Baliki (Apkarian Lab)
    PhD Dissertation Defense

    March 4, 2009 - Charlene Lee (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
    Top-down executive & automatic processes during lexical ambiguity resolution for noun/verb homographs

    March 18, 2009 - Fan Cao (Booth Lab)
    title

    April 1, 2009 - Todd Parrish
    Discussion about the 32 channel head coil and future plans for imaging

    April 15, 2009 - Li Liu (Booth Lab)
    Children with reading disability show modality-specific deficits in semantic processing: A model comparison approach using effective connectivity

    May 1, 2009 - Annual DATA BLITZ for the T32 training program and the CBMG
    Evanston Campus, FSB 3-417
    List of Presentations

    May 6, 2009 - Hide Komeda (guest of Chiao Lab)
    Neural substrates of representing a protagonist's mental and physical states in narrative comprehension

    2008

    January 30, 2008 - Joel Voss (Paller Lab)
    Conceptual priming and explicit recognition with squiggles

    February 13, 2008 - Tobias Egner (Egner Lab)
    Are repetition suppression effects a consequence of predictive coding?

    February 20, 2008 - Aprajita Mohanty (Mesulam Lab)

    February 27, 2008 - Paul Geha (Apkarian Lab)
    Do CRPS patients age faster than healthy subjects?

    March 7, 2008 - Friday Afternoon, lunch at noon, talks start at 1 PM
    Annual DATA BLITZ (for the T32 training program and the CBMG)
    Ward 5-230, Med school, Chicago Campus

    April 2, 2008 - Nadia Cone and Fan Cao (Booth Lab)

    April 30, 2008 - Marwan Baliki (Apkarian Lab)

    May 7, 2008 - Eric Gobel (Reber Lab)

    May 21, 2008 - Bharath Chandrasekaran (Incoming Post-Doc with Patrick Wong)

    May 28, 2008 - Robert Hurley (Mesulam Lab and Paller Lab)

    December 10, 2008 - Lei Wang (Dept of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)

    December 17, 2008 - Holiday Break

    2007

    January 10, 2007: Apkarian Lab: Marwan Baliki

    January 24, 2007: Gitelman Lab: Siri Sonty
    Primary Progressive Aphasia: fMRI investigations of the language network

    February 7, 2007: Thompson Lab: Dirk den Ouden
    Naming verbs from movies and pictures

    February 21, 2007: Jung-Beeman Lab: Nira Mashal

    March 7, 2007:
    ANNUAL CBMG DATA BLITZ IN EVANSTON

    March 14, 2007: Recover from the data blitz; no meeting

    March 21, 2007: Spring Break

    April 4, 2007: Gottfried Lab: Wen Li
    Shock to the senses: Olfactory aversive learning and neural plasticity in piriform and orbitofrontal cortices

    April 18, 2007: TBA Journal CLub

    April 25, 2007 at 4PM: Mark D'Esposito, UC Berkeley
    From cognitive to neural models of working memory
    Pancoe Auditorium, videoconferenced to Gray Room, Lurie Building

    May 9, 2007: Mesulam Lab: Rob Hurley

    May 16, 2007: Apkarian Lab: Marwan Baliki

    May 30, 2007: Theresa Pape, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

    June 6, 2007: Mesulam Lab: Appu Mohanty
    NOTE: Chicago location is Hughes Auditorium, Lurie Building

    June 7, 2007, 11 AM: Reber Lab: Eric Gobel
    Dissociating response planning components of perceptual-motor sequence learning

    October 17, 2007 - Joan Chiao
    Neural representations of social status hierarchy in human inferior parietal cortex

    October 31, 2007 - Dirk den Ouden (Thompson Lab)

    November 14, 2007 - Patrick Wong's Lab

    November 21, 2007 - Special Visitor: Brian Gonsalves, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Brian's Homepage
    Medial temporal lobe contributions to recognition memory
    Special Rooms: Library Forum Room (Evanston) & Wieboldt Videoconference room (Chicago)

    December 5, 2007 - Special Visitor: Nikos Logothetis, MPI Tuebingen - Nikos' Homepage
    From Single Neuron Activity to Visual Cognition: A Bridge Too Far?
    Special Rooms: Swift Hall room 107 (Evanston) & Wieboldt Videoconference room (Chicago)
    Special Time: 4:15 PM

    December 12, 2007 - DJ Bolger (Booth Lab)
    Tracking reading skill through plasticity and integration

    2006

    January 18, 2006: Apkarian Lab
          Title Interactions between aging, pain duration, and brain activity - what does it imply about mechanisms of chronic pain?
          Presenter: Paul Geha

    February 1, 2006: Gitelman Lab
          Title Neuroimaging, Incidental findings, and Human subjects
          Presenter: Darren Gitelman

    February 8, 2006: Reber Lab
          Title Development of snowflake category knowledge
          Presenter: Antonio Gisbert

    February 15, 2006: Wong Lab
          Title Effects of linguistic proficiency on talker identification
          Presenter: Patrick Wong and Tyler Perrachione

    March 15, 2006: Paller Lab
          Title Different brain mechanisms support implicit versus explicit learning in a visual search task
          Presenter: Brennan Miller

    March 22, 2006: Gottfried Lab
          Title Learning to smell the roses: olfactory perceptual learning in human piriform and orbitofrontal cortex
          Presenter: Wen Li

    April 19, 2006: Thompson Lab
          Title Neural correlates of verb and verb argument structure processing in normal and aphasic individuals
          Presenter: Steve Fix
          Title The hemodynamic response function (HRF) in vascular lesions: implications for analysis of fMRI data in patients
          Presenter: Borna Bonakdarpour

    May 3, 2006: Jung-Beeman Lab
          Title Mood effects on problem solving with insight
          Presenter: Karuna Subramaniam

    May 10, 2006: Journal Club
          Title Declarative memory consolidation in humans - Takashima et al. - PNAS 2006
          Presenter: John Rudoy - Paller Lab

    May 17, 2006: Mesulam Lab
          Title Effects of emotion on attention and executive function
          Presenter: Appu Mohanty

    May 24, 2006: Gitelman Lab
          Title T BA
          Presenter: TB A

    June 7, 2006: Journal Club
          Title Anterior temporal laterality in PPA shifts to the right - Peeters et al. - Annals of Neurology 2005
          Presenter: Dirk den Ouden - Thompson Lab

    June 14, 2006: Parrish Lab
          Title Bilateral activation in individuals post-stroke
          Presenter: Gwyn Lewis

    June 21, 2006: Journal Club
          Title Direct evidence for a parietal-frontal pathway subserving spatial awareness in humans
          Presenter: Metehan Cicek - Mesulam Lab

    October 4, 2006: DJ Bolger, Booth Lab
    The Development of Orthographic Knowledge: A Cognitive Neuroscience Investigation of Reading Skill

    October 18, 2006: Tobias Egner, Mesulam Lab
    Do spatial and feature-based visual attention reflect independent neural mechanisms?

    November 1, 2006: Doug Burman, Booth Lab
    Sex Differences in Neural Processing of Language

    November 13, 2006: Randy McIntosh, University of Toronto
    Special lecture at noon and PLS workshop at 4 PM
    Context and catalysts in brain network function

    November 15, 2006: Joan Chiao, Chiao Lab
    Visualizing cultural influences on neural systems of emotion

    November 29, 2006: Wong Lab
    The reverse hierarchy theory of auditory and speech learning

    December 6, 2006: Paller Lab
    Visiting Speaker, Reza Habib, Southern Illinois University
    The Neural Signature of Temporarily Inaccessible Memories
    Note: Chicago campus location is Lurie Building, Hughes Auditorium

    December 13, 2006: Camelia M. Kuhnen, Kellogg
    The Neural Basis of Financial Risk Taking
    Note: Chicago campus location is Lurie Building, Hughes Auditorium

    2005

    February 2, 2005: Apkarian Lab
          Title
          Presenter:Paul Geha

    February 16, 2005: Gitelman Lab
          Title Dynamic Causal Modelling
          Presenter:Siri Sonty

    March 2, 2005: Paller Lab
          Title Fluent does not equal familiar: Distinct neural markers for conceptual priming and episodic familiarity
          Presenter:Joel Voss

    March 9, 2005: Paller Lab
          Title Unseen Emotion Taints What We See -- An Investigation on Unconscious Emotional Processing
          Presenter: Wen Li

    April 13, 2005: Mesulam Lab
          Title
          Presenter: Mojtaba Zarei (Visiting Professor from     Oxford)

    April 20, 2005: Jung-Beeman Lab
          Title Mood effects on insight problem solving
          Presenter: Karuna Subramaniam

    May 4, 2005: Booth Lab
          TitleOrthographic and Phonological Representations in Children: An fMRI Study
          Presenter:Tali Bitan

    May 18, 2005: Reber Lab
          Title Wrestling with the problem of threshold setting in fMRI data analysis: Development of a     Monte Carlo method based on "matched noise"
          Presenter: Kate Murray

    June 8, 2005: Parrish Lab
          Title Arterial Spin Labeling
          Presenter: Jennie

    October 5, 2005: Booth Lab
          Title Development of lexical specificity in occipito-temporal cortex
          Presenter: Douglas D. Burman

    October 19: Reber Lab
          Title Visuomotor coordination with predictable and unpredictable targets
          Presenter: Lucia Simo

    November 2, 2005: Wong Lab
          Title Behavioral and Neural Characteristics of Successful and Less Successful Language Learning in Adults
          Presenter: Patrick Wong

    November 16, 2005: Gottfried Lab
          Title Odor quality and odorant structure
          Presenter: Jay Gottfried

    2004

    August 18, 2004: Apkarian Lab
          Title New strategies for pain drug development: Human brain imaging studies leading to a new class of analgesics?
          Presenter:Vania Apkarian

    August 25, 2004: Gitelman Lab
          Title Analysis and Aquisition of Strucutural MRI images
          Presenter:Darren Gitelman

    September 8, 2004: Parrish Lab
          Title MRI facilities and new protocol update
          Presenter:Todd Parrish

    September 22, 2004: Paller Lab (Invited Speaker)
          Title Studies of Perceptual Learning
          Presenter:Stephen Engel

    October 13, 2004: Reber Lab
          Title Studying Perceptual Expertise with fMRI
          Presenter:Joan Fisher

    November 17, 2004: Booth Lab
          Title Effective Connectivity in Spelling and Rhyming Tasks
          Presenter:Tali Bitan