Welcome to the website for the Johns Hopkins University, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, fMRI Journal Club for the Fall, 2006 semester.
The Journal Club meets on the Homewood Campus in Ames 217 from Noon-1pm.
We intend to keep this site up to date with links to pdf's of all articles designated as either background reading or empirical articles for the journal club.
Journal Club e-mail distribution -> fmriclub[at]psy.jhu.edu
Course Organizers:
Adam Greenberg-> agreenb[at]jhu.edu
Leon Gmeindl-> gmeindl[at]jhu.edu
Mike Yassa-> jhumike[at]jhu.edu
Faculty Supervisor:
Craig Stark-> cstark[at]jhu.edu
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Topic #1 – Analysis of Sustained and Transient fMRI components in mixed (blocked & event-related) designs.
Dates: 9/21/06 & 9/28/06
Background reading:
-Birn, et al. (2002). Detection versus estimation in event-related fMRI: choosing the optimal stimulus timing. Neuroimage, 15(1):252-64. pdf
- Visscher, et al. (2003). Mixed blocked/event-related designs separate transient and sustained activity in fMRI. Neuroimage, 19, 1694 –1708. pdf
Suggested empirical papers:
-Donaldson, et al. (2001). Dissociating State and Item Components of Recognition Memory Using fMRI. Neuroimage, 13, 129 –142. pdf
-Burgund, et al. (2003). Sustained and transient activity during an object-naming task: a mixed blocked and event-related fMRI study. Neuroimage, 19, 29-41. pdf
Topic #2 – Functional connectivity/correlation analysis in fMRI.
Dates: 10/19/06 & 10/26/06
Background reading:
-Methods for connectivity mapping in fMRI in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Huettel, et al. (2004), 368-371. pdf
-Horwitz, et al. (1999). Neural modeling, functional brain imaging, and cognition. TICS, 3(3), 91-98. pdf
Suggested empirical papers:
-McIntosh, et al. (2003). Functional Connectivity of the Medial Temporal Lobe Relates to Learning and Awareness. J. Neuroscience, 23(16), 6520–6528. pdf
-Greicius, et al. (2003). Functional connectivity in the resting brain: A network analysis of the default mode hypothesis. PNAS, 100(1), 253–258. pdf
Topic #3 (Part I) – Simultaneous collection of Electrophysiology and fMRI data.
Dates: 11/16/06
Background reading:
-Logothetis, et al. (2001). Neurophysiological investigation of the basis of the fMRI signal. Nature, 412(6843), 150-157. pdf
-Khubchandani & Jagannathan (2004). Simultaneous Electrophysiology and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Studies in Conscious Rats, Methods in Enzymology, 385, 63-84. pdf
Suggested empirical paper:
-Devor, et al. (2003). Coupling of Total Hemoglobin Concentration, Oxygenation, and Neural Activity in Rat Somatosensory Cortex. Neuron, 39, 353–359. pdf
Topic #3 (Part II) – What does the BOLD response mean (where does it come from)?
Dates: 11/30/06 & 12/7/06
Background reading:
-Bold fMRI (chapter 7) in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Huettel, et al. (2004). pdf
Suggested empirical papers:
- Shmuel, et al. (2006). Negative functional MRI response correlates with decreases in neuronal activity in monkey visual area V1. Nature Neuroscience, 9(4), 569-577. pdf
- Devor, et al. (2005). Coupling of the cortical hemodynamic response to cortical and thalamic neuronal activity. PNAS, 102(10), 3822–3827. pdf