Archive for October, 2013
By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 10 October 2013
Ray Dolan has received the Zulch prize with Wolfram Schultz. For more information, please click here .
By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 8 October 2013
Three post-doc vacancies in Eleanor Maguire’s Memory Lab at UCL. Please follow this link for further details.
By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013
- Freund P, Weiskopf N, Ashburner J, Wolf K, Sutter R, Altmann DR, Friston K, Thompson A, Curt A. (2013) MRI investigation of the sensorimotor cortex and the corticospinal tract after acute spinal cord injury: a prospective longitudinal study. Lancet Neurol. pii: S1474-4422(13)70146-7.
- Weiskopf N, Suckling J, Williams G, Correia MM, Inkster B, Tait R, Ooi C, Bullmore ET, Lutti A. (2013) Quantitative multiparameter mapping of R1, PD(*), MT, and R2(*) at 3T: a multi-center validation. Front Neurosci.
- Crockett, M.J. (2013). Models of morality. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 17(8):363-366.
- Smittenaar P, FitzGerald THB, Romei V, Wright ND, Dolan RJ (2013) Disruption of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex decreases model-based in favor of model-free control in humans. Neuron, in press
- Zoe VJ Woodhead, William Penny, Gareth R Barnes, Hilary Crewes, Richard JS Wise, Cathy J Price, Alexander P Leff(2013). Reading therapy strengthens top-down connectivity in patients with pure alexia. Brain 136: 2579-2591.
By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013
Molly Crockett: New psychology blog at the Guardian, please click here .
By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013
MRC Research Grant (3 years): ‘Brain mechanisms underlying reading improvement in post-stroke central alexia’. PI: Alex Leff. Collaborators: Zoe Woodhead and Jenny Crinion
By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013
Laurence Hunt will be giving some talks:
- ‘A within-attribute comparison strategy in multi-attribute choice’ at Society for Neuroeconomics
- ‘Where do neural correlates of value come from?’ at the Autumn School in Cognitive Neuroscience, Oxford
Tobias Nolte is presenting the following:
- Keynote, International Balint Congress, Heidelberg: “The Neurobiology of Close Relationships”
- Symposium, 13th ISSPD conference, Copenhagen: ” A Computational Neuroscience Approach to understand Borderline and Anti-Social Personality Disorder and Attachment-Related Trauma”
By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013
- A. Oswal, P. Brown and V. Litvak. Synchronised neural oscillations and the pathophysiology of Parkinsons disease, Current Opinion in Neurology (in press)
- J.D. Lopez, V. Litvak, J.J. Espinosa, K. Friston, G.R. Barnes. Algorithmic procedures for Bayesian MEG/EEG source reconstruction in SPM. (Neuroimage, in press)
- Ashwini Oswal, Vladimir Litvak, Christof Brücke, Julius Huebl, Gerd-Helge Schneider, Andrea A. Kuhn, Peter Brown. Cognitive factors modulate activity within the human subthalamic nucleus during voluntary movement in Parkinsons Disease (to appear in the Journal of Neuroscience)
- MJ Allman, S Teki, TD Griffiths, WH Meck. Properties of the Internal Clock: First-and Second-Order Principles of Subjective Time. Annu. Rev. Psychol, 2014
- Barron HC, Dolan RJ, Behrens TE. Online evaluation of novel choices by simultaneous representation of multiple memories. Nat Neurosci. 2013 Sep 8. doi: 10.1038/nn.3515.
- Laurence T. Hunt, Mark W. Woolrich, Matthew F. S. Rushworth, Timothy E. J. Behrens. (2013) Trial-Type Dependent Frames of Reference for Value Comparison. PLOS CB. 9(9): e1003225. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003225
By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013
- 18 June 2013: Professor Cathy Price gave a keynote lecture entitled ‘Connecting fMRI to Lesion Studies’ at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Conference, Seattle.
- 27 June 2013: Professor Cathy Price presented ‘Towards a Clinical Application of PLORAS’ and Louise Lim presented a summary of the PLORAS focus groups (see here ) at the Neurology Staff Round, Newcastle University Medical School.
- 15 August 2013: Zula Haigh from the Language Group presented on the PLORAS project to stroke survivors at Maldon and Dengie Stroke Support Group.
- 13 September 2013: Zula Haigh from the Language Group presented on the PLORAS project to stroke survivors at the Stroke Association Lewisham group.
- 17 September 2012: Members of Speakeasy (an aphasia charity) took part in a focus group to give feedback on the PLORAS website, to help make it as accessible as possible for stroke survivors with aphasia.
- Rachel Browne held an exhibition stand at the British Aphasiology Society Biennial International Conference in Manchester (9-11 September 2013) – giving information on the PLORAS project listening to feedback, and advising clinicians how to get involved via the Stroke Research Network. See pictures below and a video here .
The PLORAS project (Language Group) also featured in the Different Strokes Summer Newsletter in an article where research participant Penny, who has aphasia, explains why she chose to take part in PLORAS. Different Strokes is a charity for younger stroke survivors. You can read it here. The newsletter goes out to 12,000+ people and is then also downloadable from the Different Strokes website and they put a link on their Facebook group and Twitter.
By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013
Helen Barron’s new paper was covered by the New Scientist. A quote: “Tea jelly was
popular,” says Barron. “Beetroot custard not so much.” Read more here .
By Dimitrios Pinotsis, on 2 October 2013
Peter Smittenaar received a “Best Contributed Paper Award” for the Reinforcement Learning
and Decision Making conference.