Webinar Reminder: today 11 am PST; CogPO

[anita bandrowski]

For the couple of you not on the announce mailing list, I am including a reminder about the CogPO webinar today.

For those of you that are on the announce list, apologies for the cross-post.

Date and Time: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 • 11:00-12:00 PDT
Topic: Mind Research Network and BrainMap projects
Presenters: Drs. Angie Laird & Jessica Turner
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar

The next NIF Webinar will be held on  Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 11:00 am PDT.   Please join Drs. Angie Laird & Jessica Turner as they discuss the Mind Research Network and BrainMap projects.

The following is a description of the webinar:

Drs. Turner and Laird will discuss a cooperative project between the Mind Research Network and BrainMap projects to consistently gather and annotate fMRI data. Both projects represent cognitive processes using the CogPO ontology, a community standard for representing cognitive paradigms. CogPO is used because while the experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience literature may refer to certain behavioral paradigms by name (eg. the Stroop paradigm or the Sternberg paradigm) or by function (a working memory task, a visual attention task), these paradigms can vary tremendously in the stimuli that are presented to the subject, the response expected from the subject, and the instructions given to the subject. Disentangling the various paradigms into their components may help to disentangle the complex data from fMRI experiments.

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Anita Bandrowski, Ph.D.
NIF Project Lead
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