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  • Title: “Neuroimaging: from image to inference”.
  • Instructor: Chris Rorden :: Office 227 Discovery I
  • Course Code: PSYC 888Y, 3 credits. In addition, scientists are free to audit this course. Suitable for faculty, post-docs, PhD students and advanced undergraduate students.
  • When: Fall Semester 2012 – Tuesday/Thursday mornings from 8:00-9:15.
  • Where: Sloan 103.
  • Syllabus
  • Course slides: PPT Powerpoint Format.
  • Textbook: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Huettel, Song, and McCarthy
  • . Also suggested Handbook of Functional MRI Data Analysis by Poldrack, Mumford and Nichols.

  • Description: Functional magnetic resonance imaging is a recent and powerful tool for inferring brain function. This technique identifies brain regions that are activated by different tasks – for example we can find the brain regions that activate when someone sees a familiar face. This course is designed to give students an understanding of the potential and limitations of this technique, and the ability to critically evaluate the inferences that can be drawn from fMRI. The course describes all stages of an fMRI study – from the design of the behavioral task (e.g. asking the participant to view faces), to the image processing (e.g. correcting images for head movements that occurred during scanning), through to statistical analysis (identifying brain regions that are activated by a task).

Lectures

Class Schedule Fall 2012

  1. Th 8/23
  2. Tu 8/28
  3. Th 8/30
  4. Tu 9/4
  5. Th 9/6
  6. Tu 9/11
  7. Th 9/13
  8. Tu 9/18
  9. Th 9/20
  10. Tu 9/25
  11. Th 9/27
  12. Tu 10/2
  13. Th 10/4
  14. Tu 10/9
  15. Th 10/11
  16. Tu 10/16
  17. Th 10/18 Fall Break – no classes
  18. Tu 10/23
  19. Th 10/25 guest lecture: Jessica Green: ERPs and fMRI
  20. Tu 10/30
  21. Th 11/1
  22. Tu 11/6 General Election Day – no classes
  23. Th 11/8 guest lecture: Roger Newman-Norlund: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
  24. Tu 11/13
  25. Th 11/15
  26. Tu 11/20 guest lecture: Rutvik Desai: Meta-analyses in cognitive neuroscience (target article)
  27. Th 11/22 Thanksgiving recess – no classes
  28. Tu 11/27
  29. Th 11/29
  30. Tu 12/4
  31. Th 12/6 Student Presentations

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