Short Course on:
Statistical Parametric Mapping for fMRI 2010
(Presented by the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging)
May 13 (Thurs) - 15 (Sat) 2010
The course will present instruction on the analysis andcharacterisation of functional imagingdata.This includes Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), functional MRI (fMRI), and Positron Emission Tomography (PET).The three-day course will be divided into theoreticalsessions covering experimental design and statistical inference and practicalsessions in which SPM will be usedto analyse exemplar data sets. The course is suitable for both beginners and more advanced users. We advise students to gain at least some minimal familiarity with the methodology, for example, from reading introductory articles available from the SPM web page (
Thursday 13th May Theoreticalsessions
9.30 - 9.45Introduction and Overview
Karl Friston
9.45 - 10.45Spatial preprocessing
Ged Ridgeway
Coffee
11.00 - 11.45The General Linear Model
Christophe Phillips
11.45 - 12.30Contrasts and Classical Inference
Guillaume Flandin
Lunch
13.30 - 14.00 Group Analysis
Will Penny
14.00 - 14.45 Random Field Theory
Tom Nichols
Tea
Practical sessions
15.15 - 16.15Introduction tospatial processing
Ged Ridgeway
16.15 - 17.00Introduction to fMRI analysis
Maria Joao and Christophe Phillips
17.00 - 18.00 Clinic
Karl Friston
Friday14th May Theoretical and practical sessions
09.30 – 10.30Experimental design
Sara Bengtsson
Coffee
10.45 - 11.45Event-related fMRI
Christian Ruff
11.45 - 12.30 Practical session:Event-related fMRI analysis
Tom Nichols and Guillaume Flandin
Lunch
13.30 - 14.15Bayesian Inference
Lee Harrison
14.15 - 15.15Voxel Based Morphometry
Ged Ridgeway
Tea
15.45 – 16.45Dynamic Causal Modelling for fMRI
Hanneke den Ouden
16.45 - 17.15Practical session:Dynamic Causal Modelling for fMRI
Andre Marreiros and Hanneke den Ouden
17.15 - 18.00 Clinic
Karl Friston
20-00 – 23.00Social event at `Bloomsbury Bowling’
Saturday 15th May Practical sessions
10.00 - 10.30Introduction to practical sessions
Will Penny
10.30 – 3.30Parallel practical sessions
These sessions will cover the following topics:
PET data analysis
Christophe Phillips
Voxel-based Morphometry
John Ashburner
Voxel-based Morphometry
Ged Ridgeway
Basic analysis of fMRI
Guillaume Flandin and Sara Bengtsson
Basic analysis of fMRI (+batch)
Volkmar Glauche and Karine Gazarian
Basic/Advanced analysis of fMRI
Christian Ruff and Klaus Wunderlich
Advanced analysis of fMRI
Will Penny and Baojuan
Advanced analysis of fMRI (+PPMs)
Lee Harrison and Maria Joao
Group analysis and SnPM
Tom Nichols
Dynamic Causal Modelling for fMRI
Andre Marreiros and Jean Daunizeau
15.30 – 16.00Coffee
16.00 – 17.00 Summary session
(Group representatives to give mini-presentations on what they’ve learnt)