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2012 McGovern Institute Symposium

April 27, 2012
Photos and video from our annual symposium, "MEG: Applications to Cognitive Neuroscience" are now available!

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Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a technology for measuring human brain activity with millisecond precision, based on detection of tiny magnetic fluctuations caused by electrical currents within the brain. In this symposium, leading international researchers discussed the many ways that MEG is contributing to our understanding of human brain function and disease.

The symposium marked the opening of our new MEG lab at MIT, and it also coincides with the anniversary of the 1972 paper by David Cohen describing his pioneering work – much of it conducted at MIT – on the development of MEG technology. The event was sponsored by Elekta Inc., whose latest MEG scanner forms the centerpiece of the MIT MEG lab; and by Vacuumschmelze, who designed and built the 3-layer magnetically shielded room that houses the scanner.

 

**To view selected talks from the 2012 symposium, click on the "watch video" links below. Symposium photos may be viewed at the bottom of this page.

Symposium Agenda

Friday April 27, 2012

8:30 am
Robert Desimone, McGovern Institute

Welcoming remarks
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Session I (Chair: Dimitrios Pantazis, MIT)

8:45 am
Riitta Hari (Aalto University, Helsinki)
Old dog, new tricks: MEG studies of binaural interaction and motor control

9:30 am
Pascal Fries (Ernst Strüngmann Institute, Frankfurt)
Rhythmic neuronal synchronization studied with MEG and microelectrodes

10:15 am - 10:45 am
Break / poster session

10:45 am
Patricia Kuhl (University of Washington, Seattle)
Using MEG to explore developmental change in speech processing: a focus on sensory-motor connections
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11:30 am
David Poeppel (New York University)
Unpacking the temporal structure of speech and language processing
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12:15 pm
Lunch served in atrium / poster session

1:30 pm
Special presentation by David Cohen (Massachusetts General Hospital)
The origins of the MEG
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Session II (Chair: Matti Hamalainen, MGH)


2:00 pm
Apostolos Georgopoulos (University of Minnesota)
MEG: Basic science and clinical applications

2:45 pm
Richard Coppola (National Institute of Mental Health)
MEG in the search for intermediate phenotypes and biomarkers in neuropsychiatric research
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3:30 pm
Break / poster session

4:00 pm
Sylvain Baillet (Montreal Neurological Institute) 

Dynamic imaging of ongoing brain activity: the healthy and diseased brain at rest
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4:45 pm
Eric Halgren (University of California, San Diego)
Stages of word understanding
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5:30 pm
Reception in atrium / poster session


Symposium Photo Album


Click on the thumbnails below to enlarge the images.

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