Dear all,
You are invited to attend this week's Cognitive Area Seminar (*Friday February 26th, 3:30 - 5 PM; Stewart Biology Building, 1205 Docteur Penfield Ave., Room S3/4*).
The talk will be given by* Melanie Segado (PhD Candidate, Neuroscience, McGill),* and is titled "fMRI of Performed versus Imagined Sequences: A Multi-Voxel Pattern Analysis Approach." For a full abstract, see below dashed line.
If you are unable to attend this week's talk, there will be more opportunities. Please see our full talk schedule @: http://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/events-colloquia-0/brownbag-series.
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Hope that you are able to attend!
Best, Anna
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fMRI of Performed versus Imagined Sequences: A Multi-Voxel Pattern Analysis Approach
Melanie Segado, PhD Candidate, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal, QC, CA
Characterizing the neural correlates of instrument performance, and their relationship to imagined performance, is essential to understanding how auditory-motor associations are represented in the brain. For this experiment, 14 expert cellists were asked to play, or imagine playing, 4 different 5-note musical sequences on an MRI-Compatible cello interface (Hollinger 2015) while undergoing fMRI. One of the ways to approach the question of performed versus imagined sequences is by using multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA). MVPA will be used to test the hypothesis that the 4 performed sequences can be discriminated in auditory, motor, and pre-motor cortex. Furthermore, it will test the hypothesis that a classifier trained on performed motor sequences can be used to discriminate between imagined sequences.