From ed.vessel at nyu.edu Wed May 2 12:02:57 2012 From: ed.vessel at nyu.edu (Ed Vessel) Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 12:02:57 -0400 Subject: [CBIAnnounce] Jay Van Bavel @ CBI User Meeting, Friday 3pm Message-ID: CBI User Meeting Friday May 4, 3pm Meyer 815 Jay Van Bavel Assistant Professor of Social Psychology The flexibility of social evaluation: Dissociating moral, hedonic and pragmatic modes of evaluation Dual process models are the dominant paradigm for understanding a wide range of psychological phenomenon, from attitudes to morality. Many of these models characterize the human mind as possessing discrete processes in which an automatic evaluation guides behavior unless controlled processes intervene. In contrast, much of the work in our lab assumes that the subset of widely distributed and interactive processes recruited during evaluation differs as a function of ones goals and context. In the current research, we present evidence showing how these evaluative goals shape the process and consequences of evaluation?independent of stimuli. I will present a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging data showing that moral evaluations are faster, more extreme and more universally prescriptive than hedonic or pragmatic evaluations of the same actions and that different modes of evaluation recruit distinct neural substrates. These results suggest that people can switch back-and-forth between different modes of evaluations in a relatively flexible fashion and that evaluating the same actions in moral, hedonic or pragmatic terms elicits different evaluative processes and leads to different behavior. -- Ed Vessel Center for Brain Imaging New York University ed.vessel at nyu.edu 4 Washington Place, Rm. 156 New York, NY 10003 http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~vessel (212) 998-8217 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ed.vessel at nyu.edu Fri May 4 11:27:27 2012 From: ed.vessel at nyu.edu (Ed Vessel) Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 11:27:27 -0400 Subject: [CBIAnnounce] REMINDER: CBI User Meeting today, 3pm Message-ID: CBI User Meeting Friday May 4, 3pm Meyer 815 Jay Van Bavel Assistant Professor of Social Psychology The flexibility of social evaluation: Dissociating moral, hedonic and pragmatic modes of evaluation Dual process models are the dominant paradigm for understanding a wide range of psychological phenomenon, from attitudes to morality. Many of these models characterize the human mind as possessing discrete processes in which an automatic evaluation guides behavior unless controlled processes intervene. In contrast, much of the work in our lab assumes that the subset of widely distributed and interactive processes recruited during evaluation differs as a function of ones goals and context. In the current research, we present evidence showing how these evaluative goals shape the process and consequences of evaluation?independent of stimuli. I will present a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging data showing that moral evaluations are faster, more extreme and more universally prescriptive than hedonic or pragmatic evaluations of the same actions and that different modes of evaluation recruit distinct neural substrates. These results suggest that people can switch back-and-forth between different modes of evaluations in a relatively flexible fashion and that evaluating the same actions in moral, hedonic or pragmatic terms elicits different evaluative processes and leads to different behavior. -- Ed Vessel Center for Brain Imaging New York University ed.vessel at nyu.edu 4 Washington Place, Rm. 156 New York, NY 10003 http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~vessel (212) 998-8217 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ed.vessel at nyu.edu Fri May 11 13:42:00 2012 From: ed.vessel at nyu.edu (Ed Vessel) Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 13:42:00 -0400 Subject: [CBIAnnounce] Information from CBI Workshops uploaded to CBI Library Message-ID: <3EF82507-ED5E-4D68-B4A9-2E8DF1978318@nyu.edu> The slides from our recent Diffusion MRI Analysis Workshop have been posted on our CBI internal website. To access them: 1) go to cbi.nyu.edu 2) click on 'CBI Intranet' and enter your CBI username/password 3) Click on 'Library' and then 'Workshops.' In addition, you will find slides and information from our previous workshops: Multi-voxel pattern analysis, introductory fMRI analysis, and functional connectivity. I hope you find these useful. If you have any questions, so not hesitate to contact us. Ed -- Ed Vessel Center for Brain Imaging New York University ed.vessel at nyu.edu 4 Washington Place, Rm. 156 New York, NY 10003 http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~vessel (212) 998-8217 From ed.vessel at nyu.edu Thu May 17 13:23:01 2012 From: ed.vessel at nyu.edu (Ed Vessel) Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 13:23:01 -0400 Subject: [CBIAnnounce] How-To: Retrospective Image Correction at CBI Message-ID: <4C254D94-B627-4DCF-82AE-4936E09DC173@nyu.edu> I'd like to announce the availability of several resources for researchers interested in using Retrospective Image Correction (RETROICOR) for BOLD distortions induced by physiological signals (heart beat & respiration). 1) CBI's Matlab implementation of RETROICOR and a "How-To" document, as well as a sample dataset of BOLD and physiological data for testing analysis. These resources are available to the general public on our Software page, http://cbi.nyu.edu/software. 2) A detailed report on the development and testing of RETROICOR, comparing the results for head- and surface- coils at both 3mm and 2mm isotropic resolutions. This report is available to CBI account holders from our Library page on the CBI Intranet (requires login), https://cbi.nyu.edu/internal/library/cbi_lib.php (or navigate to CBI Intranet -> Library -> CBI TechReports & Documents). Please let us know if you have any questions, problems, or kudos! Cheers, Ed -- Ed Vessel Center for Brain Imaging New York University ed.vessel at nyu.edu 4 Washington Place, Rm. 156 New York, NY 10003 http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~vessel (212) 998-8217 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: