Hosting Journal: Frontiers in Perception Science

Topic Title: Single-trial analyses of behavioural and neuroimaging
data in perception and decision-making.

Host Editors: Guillaume A. Rousselet, Cyril R. Pernet, Paul Sajda

Description:

The cognitive psychology of perception and decision-making is at a 
cross-road. Most studies still employ categorical designs, a priori 
classified stimuli and perform statistical evaluations across subjects. 
However, a shift has been observed in recent years towards
parametric designs in which the information content of stimuli is 
systematically manipulated to study the single-trial dynamics of 
behaviour (reaction times, eye movements) and brain activity (EEG, MEG, 
fMRI). By using the information contained in the variance of individual 
trials, the single-trial approach goes beyond the activity
of the average brain: it reveals the specificity of information 
processing in individual subjects, across tasks and stimulus space, 
revealing both inter-individual commonalties and differences. This 
special issue provides theoretical and empirical support for the study
of single-trial data.

Topics of particular interest include:

1. description of the richness of information in single-trials and how 
it can be successfully extracted;
2. statistical issues related to measures of central tendency, control 
for multiple comparisons, multivariate approaches, hierarchical 
modelling and characterization of individual differences;
3. how manipulation of the stimulus space can allow for a direct mapping 
of stimulus properties onto brain activity to infer dynamics of 
information processing and information content of brain states;
4. how results from different brain imaging techniques can be integrated 
at the single-trial level.

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 01, 2010

Article Submission Deadline: January 03, 2011

Link to Special Topic:

http://www.frontiersin.org/perception_science/specialtopics/single_trial_analyses_of_behav/98

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With best regards,

Guillaume Rousselet
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Perception Science

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