The Brain Dynamics Laboratory, in collaboration with the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience and the Research Computing Center, has developed a revolutionary method to segment evoked brain dynamics: CENA

WHAT IS CENA?

• The Chicago Electrical Neuroimaging Analytics (CENA) is a new dynamic spatiotemporal brain analysis suite of tools that allows the automatic detection of event-related changes in the global pattern and global field power of electrical brain activity. 
• CENA differentiates transition states from stable evoked brain microstates.
• CENA is an analytic toolbox for brain microstate analyses, running under Matlab environment as a freely available plugin in Brainstorm (Tadel et al., 2011).

CENA FAQs

HOW DO I OBTAIN CENA?

CENA is made freely available to non-profit researchers in electrical neuroimaging at degree-granting academic institutions.

If you would like access to CENA, you can download it from the Brainstorm link above or send us an email requesting access at braindynamics@uchicago.edu.

HOW DO I CITE CENA ?

Cacioppo, S., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2015). Dynamic spatiotemporal brain analyses using high-performance electrical neuroimaging, Part II: A step-by-step tutorial. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 256, 184-197. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2015.09.004 PDF

Cacioppo, S., Weiss, R. M. Runesha, H. B., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2014). Dynamic Spatiotemporal Brain Analyses using High-Performance Electrical NeuroImaging: Theoretical Framework and Validation. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 238, 11-34. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.09.009. PDF

OTHER SELECTED CENA-RELATED PUBLICATIONS

2017

Caioppo, S. Bolmont, M., & Monteleone, G. (2017). Spatio-temporal dynamics of the mirror neuron system during social intentions. Social Neuroscience. 

Cacioppo, S. (2017) High-performance electrophysiological microsegmentation and brain source localization. In J. T. Cacioppo, L. Tassinary, & G. Berntson (Eds.), Handbook of psychophysiology (4th ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2016

Cacioppo,, S., Weiss, RM, Cacioppo, JT. (2016). Dynamic spatiotemporal brain analyses of the visual checkerboard task: Similarities and differences between passive and active viewing conditions. Psychophysiology. 53 (10), 1496-1506

2015

Cacioppo, S., Bangee, M., Balogh, S., Cardenas-Iniguez, C., Qualter, P., & Cacioppo, J.T. (2015). Loneliness and implicit attention to social threat: A high performance electrical neuroimaging study. Cognitive Neuroscience, Aug 14, 1-22. PDF

Cacioppo, S., Balogh, S., & Cacioppo, J.T. (2015). Implicit attention to negative social, in contrast to nonsocial, words in the Stroop task differs between individuals high and low in loneliness: Evidence from event-related brain microstates. Cortex. pii. S0010-9452(15)00222-1. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.05.032. PDF