Neuronal oscillation and attention

 

For our System Neuroscience Journal Club, please see our JC website.

 

 

If you wish to discuss something with the group please send an email to i.vandongen@bham.ac.uk.

 

The next scheduled lab-meeting will be Wednesday December 10th, 11:00, 52 Pritchatts rd., LT1

 

 

Upcoming sessions:

Tuesday 10/12 11:00 - 13:30 am:    Distractor inhibition workshop - 52 PR - Lecture theater 1

11:00 -11:20       Ole Jensen                    “Working memory, distractor suppression & alpha rhythm”

11:20-11:40        Oscar Ferrante             “A quick review on target selection & alpha rhythm”

11:40-11:50                                  Coffee break

11:50-12:20        Tjerk Gutteling              “Load theory & alpha rhythm”

12:20-12:50        Clayton Hickey              “Eye movements, distractor suppression & alpha rhythm”

12:50-13:00                                  Coffee break

13:00-13:30        Ali Mazaheri                  “Target/distractor similarity & alpha rhythm”

Wednesday 18/12 11:00 am     Hyojin Park:

 

Workshop, title t.b.a.

 Previous sessions:

- 2019 -

Wednesday 04/12  11:30 - 09:30 am:     Yulia Bezsudnova:

 

“OPM. Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation of the light.”

Wednesday 27/11 11:00 am     Peter Kok:

 

"Prior expectations modulate early sensory representations" 

Tuesday 12/11 11:00 am     Geoff Brookshire:

 

Today we will be discussing the following two papers, please read before attending the meeting:

Lakatos, P., Gross, J., & Thut, G. (2019). A New Unifying Account of the Roles of Neuronal Entrainment. Current Biology, 29(18), R890–R905. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.07.075

Obleser, J., & Kayser, C. (2019). Neural Entrainment and Attentional Selection in the Listening Brain. Trends in cognitive sciences.

https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1364-6613%2819%2930205-0

Tuesday 12/11 11:00 am     Nicholas Myers:

 

"Neural markers of use-dependent working memory maintenance"

Tuesday 05/11 11:00 am     Sophie Hardy:

 

"Syntactic binding during language comprehension: MEG oscillatory findings"

Tuesday 15/10 10:30 am    ppm Tjerk Gutteling:

"Spatial profile of figure ground segregation"

+ ppm Geoff Brookshire:

"How does the brain coordinate attention during naturalistic eye-movements?"

Tuesday 08/10 11:00 am     Geoff Brookshire:

"How does the brain coordinate attention during naturalistic eye-movements?"

Tuesday 24/09 09:30 - 12:00      Sylvain Baillet workshop:

09:30 - 9:45      coffee and a few words by Ole Jensen

09:45-10:00      Tjerk Gutteling - How brain oscillations reflect the allocation of attention: support for cognitive load theory

10:05-10:20      Tamas Minarik - Optimal parameters of rapid frequency tagging

10:25-10:40      Yali Pan - Spatial attention during reading investigated with MEG

10:45-11:00      Hyojin Park - tba

11:05-11:20      Ling Liu - Neural dynamic underlying global precedence in visual perception

11:25-11:40      Barbara Berger - Dynamic allocation of cognitive resources in working memory through oscillatory coupling in the human cortex

11:45-12:00      general discussion and wrap up

Tuesday 10/09 11:00 am     George Parish:

 

"The Sync/deSync model : how a desynchronised neo-cortex & a synchronised hippocampus code memories" 

Tuesday 17/09 11:00 am     Ling Liu

Tuesday 16/07 11:00 am     Kelly Gartner:

 

"Investigating the sensitivity of the human striatum during the formation of visual priorities" 

Tuesday 09/07 11:00 am     Britta Ulrike Westner:

 

"Next stop source space: Low SNR signals and the interpretability of results in MEG decoding"

Tuesday 02/07 10:30 am     Ali Mazaheri:

 

"Unique Neurophysiological Vulnerability of Visual Attention Networks to Acute Inflammation" 

Tuesday 25/06 11:00 am     Ole Jensen:

"On the role of alpha for  routing and prioritizing information in the working brain: relation to metacognitive awareness and meditations experience" 

Tuesday 18/06

11:00 am     Nicholas Menghi:  

"Visual sampling and error correction in human performance"

13:00 pm     Xiaofang Yang:

"The role of Alpha-band oscillations during anticipatory gating of attention"

Tuesday 28/05 11:00 am     Ole Jensen:

'Introduction to minimum current estimates' 

Tuesday 21/05 11:00 am     Ole Jensen:

 

"Beamforming - theory and application" 

Tuesday 09/04 12:00 - 14:00     various:

CHBH talks MEG UK Cardiff:

Talks:

Hyojin Park: "Multivariate information theory analysis reveals spatiotemporal properties of audiovisual speech integration"

Cecilia Mazzetti: "Methylphenidate normalizes modulation of motor-cortical beta oscillations in ADHD children​"

Poster pitch talk:

Alexander Zhigalov: "Probing cortical excitability using rapid frequency tagging" 

Posters:

Tjerk Gutteling: "Attentional modulation and perceptual load investigated using Rapid Frequency Tagging"

Ana Pesquita: "The two-body problem: Alpha decreases over the right-temporal cortex during the perception of social actions (preliminary observations)"

Tuesday 02/04 11 am     Abraham Panameno:

"Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (AVH), differences in verbal predictions based on AVH susceptibility scores" 

Tuesday 26/03 11 am     

Discussing any MEG related/ project related issues

Tuesday 19/03 11 am     Oscar Ferrante:

"Neurophysiological correlates of history-driven distractor suppression"

Tuesday 12/03 11 am     Howard Bowman:

 

"The Theory and Practice of Breakthrough Percepts, with Application to Deception Detection on the Fringe of Awareness."

Tuesday 26/02 10 am     Ole Jensen:  

 

"How to do quality control for MEG"

Tuesday 12/02 11 am     Ole Jensen:

"Broadband frequency tagging and temporal response functions"

 

Tuesday 08/01 11 am     Petra Fischer:

 

"Cortico-basal ganglia gamma coupling and beta oscillations during movement initiation and inhibition."

 

 

 

- 2018 -

 

 

Tuesday 18/12 11 am:     *Christmas treats and jumper session*     Sang-Hoon Yeo:

 

"Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound on Frontal Eye Field Modulates Human Saccade Behavior."

 

 

Tuesday 04/12 11 am     Oscar Ferrante:

 

"Statistical learning in visual attention: what is the role of brain oscillations?"

 

 

Tuesday 27/11 11 am     Sophie Hardy:

 

"Building language: Investigating the neural processes involved in syntactic binding."

 

 

Tuesday 20/11 13:00     Penny (Penelope) Lewis:

 

"Sleep, semantic memory and creative problem solving."

 

 

Tuesday 13/11 11 am     Linda Drijvers:

 

"Selective routing and integration of speech and gestural information studied by rapid invisible frequency tagging."

 

 

Tuesday 30/10 11 am     Wieske van Zoest:

 

"Neural signatures of visual control, measuring eye movements and EEG/ MEG"

 

 

Tuesday 23/10 11 am     Penny (Penelope) Lewis (postponed):

 

"Sleep, semantic memory, and creative problem solving."

 

 

Tuesday 16/10 11 am     Poppy Sharp:

 

"Modulation of alpha frequency by temporal processing goals and spatial attention."

 

 

Tuesday 02/10 11:30     Benedikt Zoefel:

 

"Oscillatory processes in the auditory system"

 

 

Tuesday 11/09 10 am     Yali Pan:

 

"Oscillatory activity underlying parafoveal reading"

 

 

Tuesday 04/09 10 am     Geoff Brookshire:

 

"Temporal prediction in perception and language comprehension."

 

 

Tuesday 21/08 11 am     Ole Jensen:

 

"FLUX pipeline: TFRs and multitapers." See also our Wiki page on calculating time-frequency representations of power using multitapers. 

 

 

Tuesday 14/08 11 am     Ole Jensen:

 

FLUX pipeline: 'time-frequency analysis; basics + FLUX'

 

 

Tuesday 09/08 11 am     Ole Jensen:

 

FLUX pipeline: 'planar gradiometers and magnetometers & event-related fields'

 

 

Tuesday 07/08 11 am     Ole Jensen:

 

'MEG analysis: How to get rolling with Fieldtrip using our FLUX pipeline'

 

 

Tuesday 31/07 11 am     Alexander Zhigalov:

 

'Phase coding in the visual system: neuronal processing coordinated by brain oscillations'

 

 

Tuesday 24/07 11 am     Kelly Garner:

 

'The role of cortical asynchrony during contextually driven behavioural variability: sensory likelihoods or optimal inference?'

 

 

Tuesday 17/07 11 am     Oscar Ferrante:

 

'Statistical learning of target selection and distractor filtering.'

 

 

Tuesday 10/07, 11 am     Andrew Corcoran:

 

'Savitzky-Golay filtering to improve individual alpha frequency estimation'

 

 

Tuesday 03/07 11 am     Anagh Pathak:

 

'A toy model of Cross Frequency Coupling'

 

 

Tuesday 26/06, 11 am     Ana Pesquita:

 

'People Watching: Brain oscillatory mechanisms of social perception.'

 

 

Tuesday 19/06, 11 am     Katharina Duecker:

 

'Entrainment of neuronal gamma-oscillations using rapid frequency tagging.'

 

 

Tuesday 19/06, 11 am     Tara van Viegen:

 

'Oscillatory power dynamics and behavioural adjustments after commission errors.'

 

 

Wednesday 06/06, 09:30 am     Rachel Upthegrove:

 

'Prediction in Auditory Verbal Hallucinations, a mixed methods study in young people who hear voices. Grant development’.

 

 

Tuesday 29/05, 11 am     Tjerk Gutteling:

 

'Frequency tagging in MEG studies.' 

 

 

Tuesday 22/05, 12 pm     Elisabet Alzueta:

 

'Beyond the self: the role of attention in self-face perception'.

 

 

Tuesday 22/05, 11 am     Robert Seymour:

 

'Dysregulated local oscillatory connectivity of the visual system in autism spectrum disorder'.

 

 

Tuesday 15/05, 11 am     Sean Fallon:

 

'Clearing the mind of irrelevant information: Differential effects of reward, drugs and Parkinson’s disease'.

 

 

Tuesday 01/05, 10 am     Uta Noppeney:

 

'The neural dynamics of Bayesian Causal Inference'.