[CTN] CTN seminar: Dr. Tal Yarkoni, UC Boulder, Jan 15, 3.30pm in PAS 2464

[Matthijs van der Meer]

Dear all,

Please join us for next Tuesday's CTN seminar (Jan 15) by Dr. Tal 
Yarkoni, from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Title and abstract 
follow below.

Time and place are the usual, 3.30pm on Tuesday in PAS 2464.

If you would like to meet with Dr. Yarkoni, and/or come to dinner
afterwards, please let me know.

Hope to see you there,

- Matt


Dr. Tal Yarkoni
Research Associate
Institute of Cognitive Science
University of Colorado at Boulder
http://talyarkoni.org/

Title: Large-scale automated synthesis of functional MRI data using the 
Neurosynth framework

Abstract: The explosive growth of the human neuroimaging literature has 
led to major advances in understanding of human brain function, but has 
also made aggregation and synthesis of neuroimaging findings 
increasingly difficult. In this talk, I discuss some of the major 
challenges neuroimaging researchers face, and describe a novel brain 
mapping framework (Neurosynth) that uses text mining, meta-analysis and 
machine learning techniques to help address some of these challenges. 
The Neurosynth framework can be used to automatically conduct 
large-scale, high-quality neuroimaging meta-analyses, address 
long-standing inferential problems in the neuroimaging literature (e.g., 
how to infer cognitive states from distributed activity patterns), and 
support 'decoding' of broad cognitive states from brain activity in both 
entire studies and individual human subjects. I illustrate these 
applications with concrete examples from several domains, and introduce 
a web interface that provides access to the data and tools 
(http://neurosynth.org), before concluding with a discussion of future 
directions and potential avenues for integration with other tools.