Applying MEG in cognitive neuroscience

In this talk, I will illustrate important factors in experimental design that pertain to MEG studies on cognitive neuroscience (Salmelin and Parkkonen, 2010). I will show examples on the use of evoked responses (Nishitani and Hari, 2002), spontaneous brain oscillations (Caetano et al., 2007) and temporally structured, or tagged, stimuli (Parkkonen et al., 2008). Recently, real-time analysis of MEG data and on-line feedback to the subject have become feasible and they can be used to investigate cognitive processes in a novel and interesting manner (Sudre et al., 2011).

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