<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 56.0px; text-indent: -56.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Hosting Journal: Frontiers in Perception Science</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Topic Title: Single-trial analyses of behavioural and neuroimaging data in perception and decision-making.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">Host Editors: Guillaume A. Rousselet, Cyril R. Pernet, Paul Sajda</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Description:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">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.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Topics of particular interest include:</span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">1. description of the richness of information in single-trials and how it can be successfully extracted;</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">2. statistical issues related to measures of central tendency, control for multiple comparisons, multivariate approaches, hierarchical modelling and characterization of individual differences;</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">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;</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">4. how results from different brain imaging techniques can be integrated at the single-trial level.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></div><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Abstract Submission Deadline: September 01, 2010</span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></div><p align=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Article Submission Deadline: January 03, 2011</span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Link to Special Topic: <a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/psychology/perceptionscience/specialtopics/98/">http://www.frontiersin.org/psychology/perceptionscience/specialtopics/98/</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The publishing fee for contributors amounts to €900, and a further reduction to €720 for Frontiers Associate Editors.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Like all research published with Frontiers, the articles will be freely available to all of our readers on our website, and all Special Topic articles receive a DOI and are indexed in the National Institute of Health’s electronic depository of full text articles, PubMed Central, and many other international archives (Google Scholar, Directory of Open Access Journal, Psych INFO). Frontiers is also in the process of being archived in Thompson Scientific (ISI), and Web of Science.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Frontiers has also announced that in the very near future, all published Special Topics will be available to view and download in an eBook format!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">For more information, you may refer to the Frontiers’ Special Topic page, where you can get further guidance and browse past Special Topics. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><< <a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/specialtopicspage/">http://www.frontiersin.org/specialtopicspage/</a> >></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">With best regards,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Guillaume Rousselet</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Associate Editor, Frontiers in Perception Science</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.frontiersin.org">www.frontiersin.org</a></span></div></b></span></p></body></html>