NEURAL ARCHITECTURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS SUMMER SCHOOL

Kraków, 22nd to 27th of August, 2022

We cordially invite you to the Neural Architecture of Consciousness Summer School.

The aim of the event is to present to you the dataset we have collected in Kraków alongside an introduction to the key analysis methods used. The first three days of the school focus on the structural imaging of the brain: how the anatomical, histological, volumetric, and connective properties of the brain can inform our understanding of the individual differences. The remaining days offer an opportunity to dive into other pivotal aspects of the dataset, that is the resting state functional connectivity and the DNA phenotyping. As the metacognitive aspect of the Kraków’s dataset is substantial, we also plan for a metacognition session. Last, but not least, we will focus on machine learning methods with a particular focus on how these can help us to better understand relationships between the rich array of imaging results and between-subjects differences in behaviour.

Venue:
Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Ingardena 6, 30-060 Kraków
Registration:
Ongoing - register HERE
Total cost:
600 €
Contact:
michal.wierzchon@uj.edu.pl
Confirmed speakers:
Agoston Mihalik (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge)
Antoine Lutti (Centre for Research in Neuroscience, University of Lausanne)
Borysław Paulewicz (Consciousness Lab, Jagiellonian University)
Chen Song (Brain Research Imaging Centre, Cardiff University)
Christophe Phillips (GIGA Institute, University of Liège)
Claude Bajada (Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta)
Daniel Margulies (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Irene Mikkelsen (Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University)
Kristian Sandberg (Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University)
Michał Wierzchoń (Consciousness Lab, Jagiellonian University)
Paola Galdi (MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh)
Per Qvist (Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University)
Renate Ritiku (Consciousness Lab, Jagiellonian University)
Aleksander Nitka (Consciousness Lab, Jagiellonian University)
PROGRAMME
Monday (22.08)
09:00 - 13:00
Individual meetings
13:15 - 14:00
Kristian Sandberg: "Large-scale, MRI-based neuroarchitectural mapping of consciousness" (online)
14:00 - 15:00
Michał Wierzchoń: "Why we are here - the theories and measures of consciousness"
15:00 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00
Aleksander Nitka & Renate Rutiku: "The Where, What, and How of consortium data and other organizational matters"
Tuesday (23.08)
09:00 - 10:30
Daniel Margulies: "What can brain structure and resting-state activity tell us about human behavior?" followed by Q&A
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30
Journal club (on studies relating rs-fMRI to behavior)
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Paola Galdi: "Practical resting-state fMRI Vol.1"
15:00 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00
Paola Galdi: "Practical resting-state fMRI Vol.2"
Wednesday (24.08)
09:00 - 10:30
Chen Song: "What constitutes an optimal brain architecture?" followed by Q&A
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30
Journal club (on studies relating brain structure to behavior)
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Antoine Lutti: "MPM MRI relaxometry & the hMRI toolbox"
15:00 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00
Christophe Phillips: "Processing quantitative multi-parameter maps, some spatial and statistical concepts"
Thursday (25.08)
09:00 - 10:30
Per Qvist: "Everything you ever wanted to know about genes" followed by Q&A
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30
Irene Klærke Mikkelsen: "Diffusion kurtosis imaging of white matter" followed by Q&A
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Claude Bajada: "Practical diffusion MRI Vol.1"
15:00 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00
Claude Bajada: "Practical diffusion MRI Vol.2"
Friday (26.08)
09:00 - 10:30
Journal club (on studies relating diffusion MRI to behavior)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30
Borysław Paulewicz: "Metacognition and its operationalization" followed by Q&A
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:00
Agoston Mihalik: "CCA and PLS for identifying brain-behaviour associations: an introduction"
15:00 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00
Agoston Mihalik: "CCA and PLS for identifying brain-behaviour associations: a demo"
Saturday (27.08)
09:00 - 10:30
TBC: Individual meetings / Machine Learning
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30
TBC: Individual meetings / Machine Learning
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 17:00
Individual meetings