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...kudos to the various slices of technology & software that made such a rich new edu program possible to put together @NeuroTechX #eegnotebooks @ChooseMuse @neurosity @OpenBCI @gtec_BCI #brainflow @psychopy @mne_python @ProjectJupyter 👍👍👍

This was a lot fun to do! Also I believe a 'world first' in cognitive neuroscience/tech education: - 15 ppl (in grps of 3) - Repeating same 5minute ERP experiment - 5 times - w/ 5 different EEG systems(!) - Seeing their ERPs on the fly - All in one 2hr sess Wild, right? 😎🧠🎓

Queen's University (@queensu) & NeuroTechX are proud to present an exciting new opportunity for #neurotechnology enthusiasts! Our NeuroTech Micro-credentials program is a great way to learn more about the #neurotech field & get hands-on training in using neurotech devices...(1/4)

Och aye the noo #OHBM2022 ers - check out star @UofTIMS #grifflab grad student, & heart&soul of @CAMH_KCNI, @ShreyasHarita's work examining variability & precision of #tms #efield #fmri #connectivity mapping 👇👍👅💪!!

What a superb team❤️! I am exhausted just doing a keyword list of these awesome projects. You can imagine what the final few days of prep before the conf was like 🤪 . Happy Neurosciencing @CAN_ACN and the rest of you Twits reading this 😎🧠💪 8/N, fin

5. Andrew Clappison - UOttawa/UToronto/CAMH, admirably surviving triple MSc supervision w/ @Jeremie_Neuro & Maia Fraser Poster P3-G-165 (Sun) EEG-fMRI; whole-brain modelling; multimodal; alpha-BOLD anti-corellation; PyTorch; ML; parameter estimation; tinyurl.com/3r5syf5v 7/N

4. @taha_morshed - Persian #NeuroTech King Poster P2-G-170 (Sat) #Sleep, #EEG, power spectra, computational models, corticothalamic loop, mobile EEG, @ChooseMuse Poster: tinyurl.com/2p9cvajf 6/N

3. Sorenza Bastiaens - (also known internally as the brainy one) - high quality scientific Belgian Waffle [sic] Poster P1-G-171 (Fri) mathematical theories & models of #EEG #alpha rhythms; #oscillations; cortical & corticothalamic circuits Poster: tinyurl.com/2p8vm2u5 5/N

@ShreyasHarita 2. Parsa Oveisi - star undergrad - soon-to-be MSc Poster P1-G-168 (Fri) #fNIRS #HDDOT (high-density diffuse optical tomography) with @KernelCo #KernelFlow; functional connectivity, brain networks, test-retest reproducibility, fingerprinting Poster: tinyurl.com/2ny6fcr8 4/N

1. @ShreyasHarita - "Lab Veteran", "Sort-Of-Funny-Guy", all-round ledge: Poster P1-G-163 (Fri) fMRI functional connectivity, brain networks, TMS, E-field modelling, depression Poster: tinyurl.com/26396zje And also preprint 😎 biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 3/N

Here is a briefly roll call and summary thread. Seeing as the first few are up RIGHT NOW, I will keep it to a few keywords: 2/N

@CAN_ACN #CAN2022 in full swing now, and we have a whopping 5 excellent @CAMHResearch #KCNI #GriffLab posters from a SUPERB set of trainees. If you’re at the conf and are interested in #ComputationalNeuroscience + #Neuroimaging + #MentalHealth, go pay them a visit! 1/N

@OpenBCI @NeuroTechX @CAMHResearch @taha_morshed @ErikBjare @OgundipeOre @NeuroKlean @ChooseMuse @neurosity @gtec_BCI @krigolsonlab 14/N B/C there are now tens of thousands of these low-cost mobile EEG systems out there amongst the general public, in dozens of countries, this kind of research has now become possible. So we’re giving it a stab.Join us on this journey and let’s see what we can do together! 😎🧠

@OpenBCI @NeuroTechX @CAMHResearch @taha_morshed @ErikBjare @OgundipeOre @NeuroKlean @ChooseMuse @neurosity @gtec_BCI 13/N ...There has been great research using these systems from folks like @krigolsonlab, some of which have outside-the-lab. But the combo of outside-the-lab AND de-centralized is (we think) a new and v exciting way to do cognitive neuroscience and BCI research.

@OpenBCI @NeuroTechX @CAMHResearch @taha_morshed @ErikBjare @OgundipeOre @NeuroKlean 12/N B. This new type of research is made possible by the increasingly widespread availability of low cost, mobile EEG systems like @OpenBCI, @ChooseMuse, @neurosity, @gtec_BCI, #FreeEEG32, and others....

@OpenBCI @NeuroTechX @CAMHResearch @taha_morshed @ErikBjare @OgundipeOre @NeuroKlean 11/N A. NTCSP1 has a ‘de-centralized’ data collection model. That is, we (researchers) aren't present during data collection. This approach has been used in psych expts for a while with platforms like #MTurk and #Pavlovia for *behav* data, but never yet with *neuro* data like EEG

@OpenBCI @NeuroTechX @CAMHResearch @taha_morshed @ErikBjare @OgundipeOre @NeuroKlean 10/N Final comments - two things I want to highlight here:

@OpenBCI @NeuroTechX @CAMHResearch @taha_morshed @ErikBjare @OgundipeOre @NeuroKlean 9/N …For YOU - three things. 1 - contributing to the progress of science 💪🤓. 2 - as part of the process you will learn how to run your own at-home cog neuro experiments🧠💻. 3 - everyone taking part will be entered into a prize draw for some awesome @OpenBCI #Neurotech gear⚙️

@OpenBCI @NeuroTechX @CAMHResearch @taha_morshed @ErikBjare @OgundipeOre @NeuroKlean 8/N So - why do this? Well, for US, we are interested in developing new ways to do neuroscience research outside of the traditional institutional lab, leveraging new low-cost technologies and the power of enthusiast communities ( i.e. you good people). More on this below.

@OpenBCI @NeuroTechX @CAMHResearch @taha_morshed @ErikBjare @OgundipeOre @NeuroKlean 7/N ( For more on eeg-notebooks, a not too-outdated lecture from me from brainhack a little while back ) youtube.com/watch?v=C834sF…