Dear All

I will attempt to chair a discussion this Wednesday (11th) at 4pm on virtual electrode analysis in MEG. The meeting is the first of the proposed YNiC Analysis Support Colloquia looking at current and future needs for data analysis (MRI as well as MEG). The meeting will take place in the Psychology lecture theatre (B020), NOT in YNiC.

Virtual electrode analyses probe individual points in the brain. They potentially allow you to chart the response at that location over time, taking full advantage of the capacity of MEG to record changes over time with millisecond accuracy. Some of us feel, possibly naively, that the ability to do virtual electrode analyses at a group as well as an individual level is all that stands between us and world domination.

Piers will begin by demonstrating some group level analyses that he and colleagues have done as part of an MEG study that included written words, consonant strings and faces as stimuli. The aim of the session, however, is not to discuss the meaning of different studies, but what what forms of virtual electrode analysis are possible, and what we could hope to learn from them.

If you have attempted any virtual electrode analyses, or think that you may want to do some in future, please bring them along. Anyone who has any results to share is welcome to bring along some slides.

So that's Wednesday at 4pm in Psychology B020.

Andy