Tuesday, 9 May 2017

08.45-09.15 Registration

09.15-09.30 CFIN introduction

Leif Østergaard (CFIN, AU): “Neuroimaging in Aarhus – and why BOLD brain-mappers need MEG”

09.30-10.30 Aalto University presentations

Risto Ilmoniemi: “Towards better accuracy and reliability: Hybrid MEG–MRI technology”

Matti Stenroos: “Forward and inverse models for MEG signal interpretation”

Lauri Parkkonen: “High-resolution, real-time and hyperscanning MEG”

Riitta Salmelin: “MEG of language function: beyond univariate analysis of evoked responses”

Hanna Renvall: “MEG signals as probes of genetic functions”

Mia Liljeström: “Large-scale functional networks underlying language and speech”

Linda Henriksson: “Relating MEG signals to behavior and computational models”

10.30-11.00 Cofee break

11.00-12.00 Gothenburg Presentations

Justin Schneiderman: “High-Tc SQUID-based on-scalp and conventional MEG R&D in Gothenburg”

Christoph Pfeifer: “A 7-channel high-Tc SQUID-based MEG system”

Silvia Rufeux: “High-Tc SQUID magnetometers for densely packed on-scalp MEG”

Elena Orekhova: “Modulation of visual gamma oscillation by excitatory drive and the excitation/

inhibition balance in visual cortex”

12.00-13.00 Hamburg presentations

Guido Nolte: “Helium recovery, forward calulation without MRI and bicoherence -

an overview of current topics at University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf”

Thomas Pfefer: “Neuromodulation of temporal and spatial correlations of intrinsic cortical activity”

13.00-14.00 Lunch break (sandwiches provided)

14.00-15.00 Biomag Lab (Helsinki) presentations

Jyrki Mäkelä: “MEG research in BioMag laboratory”

Satu Palva: “Roles of neural oscillations and scale-free dynamics in cognition and behaviour”

Andrey Zhdanov: “Computer vision approach to video-MEG”

Miika Koskinen: “Advances in applying naturalistic stimuli in MEG”

15.00-16.00 Blitz talks

Lene Duez: “Added diagnostic value of magnetoencephalography (MEG) in patients suspected for

epilepsy, where previous, extensive EEG workup was unrevealing”

Kanad Mandke: “Comparing multilayer brain networks between groups”

Leonardo Bonetti: “Working memory performance predicts the neural discrimination of sound deviants as

indexed by frontal mismatch negativity: an MEG study”

Francesca Fardo: “Expectation violation and attention to pain jointly modulate neural gain in

somatosensory cortex”

Ida A. Nissen: “An evaluation of kurtosis beamforming in magnetoencephalography to localise the

epileptogenic zone in drug resistant epilepsy patients”

Maité Crespo-García: “Theta power decreases predict spatial accuracy of subsequent active navigation: a

combined intracranial EEG/MEG study”

Britta Westner: “Faster than the brain’s speed of light: Retinocortical interactions difer in high frequency

activity when processing darks and lights”

Sam van Bijnen: “Spatiotemporal characteristics of auditory activation in children with typical and atypical

(SLI) language development”

Jan Kujala: “Frequency-resolved directed neural interactions support expectation and detection of visual

target stimuli”

Pasi Saari: “Dynamic processing of musical features at diferent MEG frequency bands in continuous

music listening: a correlation study”

Torgeir Moberget: “Combining EEG and non-invasive brain stimulation methods to investigate cerebellar

language function”

Mads Jensen: “Reproducible science and MEG”

Christopher Bailey: “Learning in the Open? Open education resources for MEG/EEG teaching and learning”

16.00-16.30 Cofee break

16.30-18.00 Posters

Wednesday, 10 May 2017

09.00-10.00 Jyväskylä presentations

Tiina Parviainen: “Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research (CIBR)”

Simo Monto: “Neuronal processing of eye contact”

Jarmo Hämäläinen: “Audio-visual association learning studies at the University of Jyväskylä”

Ina Tarkka: “Cortical activation in self-paced and reaction-time movements difer in MEG”

Doris Hernandes Barros: “Efects of Physical Activity on Inhibitory Control in Adolescents”

10.00-10.30 Cofee break

10.30-12.00 Keynote lecture:

Karim Jerbi, Université de Montréal. “Decoding rhythmic and arrhythmic brain dynamics: New adventures in MEG”

12.00-13.00 Lunch break (sandwiches provided)

13.00-14.00 Stockholm presentations

Daniel Lundqvist: “NatMEG - building a national MEG community from scratch”

Mikkel Vinding: “Disturbed cortical processing of proprioceptive signals in Parkinson’s disease”

Cassia Man Ting Low: “Selective Attention In A Musical Cocktail”

Lau Møller Andersen: “Evidence for a tactile omission response:

Distinctive responses to actual and omitted stimulation”

14.00-15.00 Aarhus presentations

Yury Shtyrov: “Neocortical representations for language:

E/MEG studies of memory trace buildup, activation and decay”

Sandor Beniczky: “Clinical MEG projects in Aarhus”

Sarang Dalal: “The Retina as a Window to the Brain”

Kousik Sarathy Sridharan: “Efect-mechanism of deep brain stimulaiton and dopaminergic

medication on sensorimotor function in advanced Parkinson’s disease”

Elvira Brattico: “Stimulus- and person-related factors afecting encoding, discrimination and

transmission of sounds in human brains”

15.00-15.30 Cofee break

15.30-15.45 Funding

Simon Jeppe Bjerg (CFIN) will speak on Nordic and European funding schemes

15.45-17.45 Networks

Networks, training programmes and grant schemes

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