CHAIRS
Katrin Amunts and Simon Eickhoff

ABSTRACT
The last two decades have seen an unprecedented development of human brain mapping approaches at various spatial and temporal scales. Together, these have provided a large fundus of information on many different aspects of the human brain including the micro- and macrostructural segregation, regional specialization of function, connectivity, and temporal dynamics. It is noteworthy, that this development has also led to differentiations of the brain mapping field along several major lines such as structure vs. function, postmortem vs. in vivo, individual features of the brain vs. population-based aspects, or slow vs. fast dynamics. In order to understand human brain organization, it seems inevitable that these different aspects need to be integrated and combined into a multimodal human brain model. In this context, constraints of such model have to be elaborated in order to enable (i) an integration of different spatial and temporal scales and data modalities into a common reference system, and (ii) efficient data exchange and analysis.

The aim of the workshop is therefore to bring together scientists from different fields to answer the following questions:

• How do you envision a comprehensive, multimodal model of the human brain?
• Which data to be included and which not?
• Which data standards are necessary?
• How to handle ontology?

Which reference space(s) has to be supported?

TOPICS COVERED AND INVITED SPEAKERS

HIGH FIELD MR IMAGING

• Noam Harel, University of Minnesota Medical School
• Federico De Martino, Maastricht University

MACROSCOPICAL AND HIGH THROUGHPUT MR DATA

• JB Poline, Neurospin-I2BM-CEA
• Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, INSERM/CEA
• David Van Essen, Washington University

TIME DOMAIN

• Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Cuban Neuroscience Center
• Peter Tass, Jülich Research Centre
• Giuseppe Luppino, University of Parma

MICROSTRUCTURE

• Karl Zilles, Jülich Research Centre
• Katrin Amunts, Jülich Research Centre
• Mike Hawrylycz, Allen Institute for Brain Science

FUNCTIONAL BRAIN ATLASES

• Bertrand Thirion, Neurospin
• Simon Eickhoff, Heinerich-Heine University Düsseldorf
• Jack Van Horn, University of California Los Angeles

NEUROINFORMATICS

• Sean Hill, INCF Secretariat
• Jan Bjaalie, University of Oslo
• Alan Evans, McGill University

For more information, please contact: mathew.abrams@incf.org