[visionlist] Fwd: Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience Research Topic: Eye movement-related brain activity during perceptual and cognitive processing" - abstract submission deadline 01 October 2012

[Sebastian Pannasch]

CALL FOR PAPERS / ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE 01 OCTOBER 2012

*_Frontiers Research Topic: "Eye movement-related brain activity during 
perceptual and cognitive processing"_*

We are pleased to announce an upcoming Research Topic on eye-movement 
related brain activity in "Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience"

Submitted manuscripts can range from original research and technical 
papers to review articles.

Hosting Journal: Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Topic Editor(s): Andrey R. Nikolaev, Sebastian Pannasch, Junji Ito and 
Artem Belopolsky

Description: The recording and analysis of electrical brain activity 
associated with eye movements has a history of several decades. While 
the early attempts were primarily focused on uncovering the brain 
mechanisms of eye movements, more recent approaches use eye movements as 
markers of the ongoing brain activity to investigate perceptual and 
cognitive processes.

This recent approach of segmenting brain activity based on eye movement 
behavior has several important advantages. First, the eye movement 
system is closely related to cognitive functions such as perception, 
attention and memory. This is not surprising since eye movements provide 
the easiest and the most accurate way to extract information from our 
visual environment and the eye movement system largely determines what 
information is selected for further processing. The eye movement-based 
segmentation offers a great way to study brain activity in relation to 
these processes. Second, on the methodological level, eye movements 
constitute a natural marker to segment the ongoing brain activity. This 
overcomes the problem of introducing artificial markers such as ones for 
stimulus presentation or response execution that are typical for a 
lab-based research. This opens possibilities to study brain activity 
during self-paced perceptual and cognitive behavior under naturalistic 
conditions such as free exploration of scenes. Third, by relating eye 
movement behavior to the ongoing brain activity it is possible to see 
how perceptual and cognitive processes unfold in time, being able to 
predict how brain activity eventually leads to behavior.

This research topic welcomes contributions using electroencephalography, 
magnetoencephalography, electrocorticography, local field potentials and 
neuronal unit recording associated with eye movements in humans and 
animals. Other methods, such as fMRI, PET and NIRS, employing eye 
movements as markers to model brain activation are also within the scope 
of this topic. We invite researchers from different fields to submit 
reviews, empirical and technical papers demonstrating the benefits of 
the combined investigation of brain activity and eye movements.


Our Research Topic is hosted on the Frontiers website, where you can get 
further information about this topic:
http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/SpecialTopicDetail.aspx?name=Systems%20Neuroscience&st=882&sname=Eye_movement-related_brain_act&x=y 
<http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/SpecialTopicDetail.aspx?name=Systems%20Neuroscience&st=882&sname=Eye_movement-related_brain_act&x=y>

All authors are required to submit an abstract via the special topic 
homepage before October 1st, 2012.

Article Submission Deadline is December 1st, 2012

With best regards,

Andrey R. Nikolaev
Sebastian Pannasch
Junji Ito
Artem Belopolsky

Topic Editors, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
http://www.frontiersin.org



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