‘Alpha revisited: is there evidence for anticipatory inhibition and sensory gain control?’

10:00 – 10:15   Ole Jensen – University of Birmingham (Centre for Human Brain Health): Introduction

10:15 – 10:45   Daniel Schneider – Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund: 

‘Working memory updating makes use of inhibition: Evidence by posterior alpha power lateralization’

10:45 – 11:15   Søren Andersen – University of Aberdeen:

“Too little, too late, and in the wrong place: Alpha band activity does not reflect an active mechanism of selective attention”

11:15 – 11:30   — Break —

11:30 – 12:00  Tjerk Gutteling – University of Birmingham (Centre for Human Brain Health):

“Perceptual load: Target gain and distractor suppression”

12:00 – 12:30  Matthias Müller – University of Leipzich:

“Alpha as neural signature of top-down active stimulus/distractor suppression: A myth!?”