Book: ‘ The Elements of Statistical Learning ’
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction. Download the book PDF (corrected 5th printing) here: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/ (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - March 9, 2012 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Documentation Dimensionality Reduction Machine Learning Statistical Analysis Source Type: blogs
Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex
Intracranial recordings (ECoG) from nonprimary auditory cortex in the human superior temporal gyrus were reconstructed in to speech sounds. You may read the article here: Pasley BN , David SV , Mesgarani N , Flinker A , Shamma SA , et al. 2012 Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex. PLoS Biol 10(1): e1001251, or listen [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - February 2, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Stories Brain Interfaces Brain Research Source Type: blogs
Monkey brains ‘ feel ’ virtual objects
In a first-ever demonstration of a two-way interaction between a primate brain and a virtual body, two monkeys trained at the Duke University Center for Neuroengineering learned to employ brain activity alone to move an avatar hand and identify the texture of virtual objects. You may read the news report at Duke University here or [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - January 10, 2012 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Stories Brain Interfaces Brain Research Spike Sorting Source Type: blogs
Online wiki release of “ Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience ” textbook
The 2nd Edition of “Computational Explorations in Cognitive Neuroscience” (O’Reilly & Munakata, 2000) is available as a free wiki textbook. The book is available here: http://grey.colorado.edu/CompCogNeuro/index.php/CCNBook/Main From the same page, it can also be ordered as a hard-copy book, printed by PediaPress (see link at top of above page). A major component of the book [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - January 9, 2012 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Book Reviews Documentation External announcements Brain Research Modelling Neurophysiology Source Type: blogs
Nev2lkit enhanced demo
An example of a spike sorting task using ‘nev2lkit enhanced‘ tool. Nev2lkit acts as a preprocessor for the extracellularly recorded data, extracting neural waveforms (i.e. spikes) from the continuous time series. Nev2lkit enhanced features user-customized optimization of the time-window used during the spike extraction procedure. Consequently, Nev2lkit employs Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in the spike [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - May 19, 2011 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Software Clustering Dimensionality Reduction Spike Sorting Source Type: blogs
Brains for Brains 2011 | Young Researchers Computational Neuroscience Award
The call is open for students from relevant disciplines who plan to pursue a research career in Computational Neuroscience and who have at least one peer reviewed publication or peer reviewed conference abstract that resulted from research accomplished before the start of doctoral studies, is written in English and was accepted or published in 2010 [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - April 28, 2011 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: External announcements Source Type: blogs
BCCN Doctoral Program on “ Sensory Computation in Neural Systems ”
Starting from March 2010 the BCCN PhD program will be conducted in the framework of the Research Training Group “Sensory Computation in Neural Systems” (GRK 1598/1). Application deadline: March 15, 2011 Interviews with selected candidates: mid-June 2011 Beginning of courses: October 2011 Candidates admitted to the PhD program are expected to hold a Masters degree [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - February 22, 2011 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Jobs Source Type: blogs
Paris School of Neuroscience – Spring School 2011
Paris School of Neuroscience – Spring School 2011 Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience Application deadline: 31 January 2011 Dates: Tuesday April 12th – Friday April 20th 2011 Université Paris Descartes, 45 Rue des Saints Pères, 75006 Paris TOPICS Photophysics and photochemistry of fluorophores. Data analysis and image analysis. Conventional and confocal microscopy. CCD [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - January 22, 2011 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: External announcements Source Type: blogs
Postdoc Position in Retinal Neurophysiology – Computational Neuroscience
A postdoctoral research position is available in the research group of Prof. Tim Gollisch at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany. The position is funded through the Collaborative Research Center (“Sonderforschungsbereich”) 889, which has recently been established in Göttingen and will provide a lively and integrative platform for investigating neuronal processing in sensory systems. The research group of Prof. Gollisch studies [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - December 26, 2010 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Jobs Source Type: blogs
Neurodebian – the Debian Neuroscience Repository
NeuroDebian aims to provide a turnkey software platform for nearly all aspects of the neuroscientific research process. The Neurodebian repository provides mostly neuroscience-related packages to be used on Debian systems (or Debian-derivatives like Ubuntu). It contains both unofficial or prospective packages which are not (yet) available from the main Debian archive, as well as backported [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - September 29, 2010 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Software Stories Source Type: blogs
PhD position at BCCN T übingen
The dpt of Computer Engineering of the Wilhelm-Schickard-Institute of the University of Tübingen offers a position starting October 1st, 2010. Type: Research assistant (PhD student, E13 50%) The position is available in the subproject C5 „Population Dynamics in Multi-Stable Perception“ of the Bernstein Center Tübingen „Neural Mechanisms of Perceptual Inference“ which is a part of [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - August 4, 2010 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: Jobs Source Type: blogs
Autumn School “ Advanced Scientific Programming in Python ”
An Autumn School by the G-Node, the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences and the Fondazione Bruno Kessler October 4th—8th, 2010. Trento, Italy. Preliminary Program =================== Day 0 (Mon Oct 4) — Software Carpentry & Advanced Python • Documenting code and using version control • Object-oriented programming, design patterns, and agile programming • Exception handling, lambdas, decorators, [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - July 29, 2010 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: External announcements Source Type: blogs
5th International Summerschool in Biomedical Engineering on “ Multimodal integration of functional brain measurements ”
The objective of the International Summer School is to provide in depth education on techniques of recording and analysing multi-modal data from non-invasive brain measurements, covering both theoretical foundations and practical applications. It aims at a thorough understanding of the underlying mechanisms and thus will develop a critical view on current applications and possible future [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - June 1, 2010 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: External announcements Source Type: blogs
Young Researchers ’ Computational Neuroscience Award
The call is open for researchers of any nationality who have contributed to a scientific paper or reviewed conference abstract that was accepted for publication or published in the years 2009 or 2010. The award comprises a 500 € cash award, plus a travel fellowship of up to 1.500 € to cover a one-week trip [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - May 11, 2010 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: External announcements Source Type: blogs
Computational & Cognitive Neurobiology sumer school at CSHL-Asia
July 11 – 24, 2010, CSHL-Asia, Suzhou, China Computational and Cognitive Neurobiology are playing an increasing important role in advancing our understanding of the neural basis of behavior. To foster this field in China and other Asian countries, and to help attract young talented students and postdocs to the field, we have developed a new [...] (Source: Neurobot)
Source: Neurobot - March 7, 2010 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dimitrios A. Adamos Tags: External announcements Source Type: blogs
