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<span class="m_-7757549887335654487m_2737735116088858360m_-5714975685644355291m_4571409796857939746gmail-m_-8997750358874764526gmail-m_-1786312585432277194gmail-m_5456828879160120644gmail-il"><font size="4"><b><font color="#c8102e">The BRAIN Center and IEEE
EMBS Distinguished Lecture</font><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(200,16,46)"><font size="4"><span class="m_-7757549887335654487m_2737735116088858360m_-5714975685644355291m_4571409796857939746gmail-m_-8997750358874764526gmail-m_-1786312585432277194gmail-m_5456828879160120644gmail-il">Paul</span> <span class="m_-7757549887335654487m_2737735116088858360m_-5714975685644355291m_4571409796857939746gmail-m_-8997750358874764526gmail-m_-1786312585432277194gmail-m_5456828879160120644gmail-il"><span class="m_-7757549887335654487m_2737735116088858360m_-5714975685644355291m_4571409796857939746gmail-m_-8997750358874764526gmail-il">Sajda</span></span></font></span><br>
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Member, Data Science Institute</p>
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Columbia University</p>
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<font size="4"><font color="#1155cc">4796 Cullen Blvd, </font><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Houston, TX 77004 (<a href="https://goo.gl/maps/UVrNmjNutHs" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">map</a>)</span></font></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-align:center">Reception (light refreshments) 10<span class="m_-7757549887335654487m_2737735116088858360m_-5714975685644355291m_4571409796857939746gmail-m_-8997750358874764526gmail-m_-1786312585432277194gmail-m_5456828879160120644gmail-m_-1945911974129654308gmail-m_5412580377269971556x_m8284485199931212548m-6619979413376263006gmail-aqj" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="m_-7757549887335654487m_2737735116088858360m_-5714975685644355291m_4571409796857939746gmail-m_-8997750358874764526gmail-m_-1786312585432277194gmail-m_5456828879160120644gmail-m_-1945911974129654308gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="m_-7757549887335654487m_2737735116088858360m_-5714975685644355291m_4571409796857939746gmail-m_-8997750358874764526gmail-m_-1786312585432277194gmail-m_5456828879160120644gmail-m_-1945911974129654308gmail-aQJ">:30
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<p align="center" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;text-align:center">Lecture 11<span class="m_-7757549887335654487m_2737735116088858360m_-5714975685644355291m_4571409796857939746gmail-m_-8997750358874764526gmail-m_-1786312585432277194gmail-m_5456828879160120644gmail-m_-1945911974129654308gmail-m_5412580377269971556x_m8284485199931212548m-6619979413376263006gmail-aqj" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="m_-7757549887335654487m_2737735116088858360m_-5714975685644355291m_4571409796857939746gmail-m_-8997750358874764526gmail-m_-1786312585432277194gmail-m_5456828879160120644gmail-m_-1945911974129654308gmail-aBn" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="m_-7757549887335654487m_2737735116088858360m_-5714975685644355291m_4571409796857939746gmail-m_-8997750358874764526gmail-m_-1786312585432277194gmail-m_5456828879160120644gmail-m_-1945911974129654308gmail-aQJ">:00
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<p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><strong></strong><b>Seminar title:</b> “Fusing Simultaneously Acquired EEG and fMRI to Infer Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Cognition in the Human Brain”</p>
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<b>Abstract:<span> </span></b>Advances in neural signal and image acquisition as well as in multivariate signal processing and machine learning are enabling a richer and more rigorous understanding of the neural basis of human decision-making. Decision-making
is essentially characterized behaviorally by the variability of the decision across individual trials—e.g., error and response time distributions. To infer the neural processes that govern decision-making requires identifying neural correlates of such trial-to-trial
behavioral variability. In this talk I will discuss how were are using simultaneously acquired electroencephalograpy (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to infer the spatiotemporal dynamics that underlie the formation and execution of rapid
perceptual decisions. Focus will be on the different approaches we have developed to couple the trial-to-trial variability in the EEG and hemodynamic signals, and how to relate the resulting measures to elements of the perceptual decision-making process.</p>
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<b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Bio:</b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span>Paul<span> </span><span class="m_-7757549887335654487m_2737735116088858360m_-5714975685644355291m_4571409796857939746gmail-m_-8997750358874764526gmail-il">Sajda</span><span> </span>(IEEE
Fellow, AMBIE Fellow, AAAS Fellow) is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Radiology (Physics) and a Member of Columbia’s Data Science Institute at Columbia University. He is interested in what happens in our brains when we make
a rapid decision and in real-time brain-computer interfaces that are aimed at improving interactions between humans and machines. He is also applying his methodology to understand how deficits in rapid decision-making may underlie and be diagnostic of many
types of psychiatric diseases and mental illnesses. Professor<span> </span><span class="m_-7757549887335654487m_2737735116088858360m_-5714975685644355291m_4571409796857939746gmail-m_-8997750358874764526gmail-il">Sajda</span><span> </span>is a co-founder of
several neurotechnology companies and the Chair of the IEEE Brain Initiative.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">The BRAIN Center: <span> </span><a href="http://brain.egr.uh.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://brain.egr.uh.e<wbr>du/</a> </p>
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