{"id":26,"date":"2017-06-05T09:24:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T09:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/titoschmi.de\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2018-08-16T13:28:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T13:28:33","slug":"neuroscience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/titoschmi.de\/?page_id=26","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Current research<\/h4>\n<p>Here is a selection of current research projects from my two main fields of research interest:<\/p>\n<h6>(1) How does our brain represent mental content in consciousness<\/h6>\n<p>I use multivariate decoding techniques (MVPA) for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to identify brain regions that code the content of consciousness during working memory delay phases. Togehter with colleagues and Prof. Dr. Felix Blankenburg from the Neuroimaging and Neurocomputation Unit (NNU) at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, I published several recent studies on tactile and cross-modal working memory<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the data I have collected over the last years, I am currently working on a &#8220;predicitve coding&#8221;-model of working memory.<\/p>\n<h6>(2) What are the brain mechanisms underlying altered states of consciousness (ASC)<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>The Altered States Database &#8211; www.asdb.info &#8211; Meta-analyses of different induction methods of altered states experiences, e.g.\u00a0dose-response relationships<\/li>\n<li>Developing a Taxonomy for induction methods of altered states of consciousness<\/li>\n<li>Investigating the neuronal bases of non-pharmacologically induced altered states of consciousness with functinal magnetic resonance imaging\u00a0(fMRI)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>ACTIVITIES\/Talks\/Workshops<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wikimedia.de\/2018\/07\/12\/die-altered-states-database-ein-projekt-aus-dem-fellow-programm-freies-wissen\/\">Blog-Post [GERMAN]<\/a> by the Wikimedia Foundation about the ASDB project<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alteredstatesdb.org\/blog\/\">News-Blog<\/a> by me on research related to the ASDB<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/idalab.de\/blog\/interview\/altered-states-consciousness-timo-torsten-schmidt\">Interview <\/a>with me about the construction and the vision of the ASDB, by Leonard Ruedin (idelab.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zCIEf7daajo&amp;t=2s\">Videorecording<\/a> of a presentation given at the ICPR2016 conference, Amsterdam<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pAOr7zVrvgE&amp;t=9s\">Videorecording <\/a>of a presentation given at the Breaking Convention, London<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TAjAOgeKb-0&amp;t=5s\">Pitch<\/a> [GERMAN] for a book chapter<\/p>\n<p>Co-Organizer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drugscience.de\">#DrugScience2017<\/a> conference @ Charit\u00e9 Berlin<\/p>\n<h4>Professional organizationS\/Associations<\/h4>\n<p>I am currently member of the following professional scientific organizations\/communities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nwg.glia.mdc-berlin.de\/de\/\">Neurowissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (NWG)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfn.org\/\">Society for Neuroscience (SfN)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theassc.org\">Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanbrainmapping.org\">Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current research Here is a selection of current research projects from my two main fields of research interest: (1) How does our brain represent mental content in consciousness I use multivariate decoding techniques (MVPA) for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data to identify brain regions that code the content of consciousness during working memory delay &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/titoschmi.de\/?page_id=26\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/titoschmi.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/titoschmi.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/titoschmi.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/titoschmi.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/titoschmi.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/titoschmi.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"http:\/\/titoschmi.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/titoschmi.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}