Hi All,

I'd like to gather expressions of interest for those those who would be interested in attending a 'MrVista - Population Receptive Field Mapping' workshop at YNiC.

For those of you not familiar with mrVista, it is a MATLAB interface for analysing functional and anatomical MRI data, based on the Vistasoft toolbox developed by Stanford University, whilst population receptive field (pRF) mapping is a form of retinotopic mapping, where we compute a model of pRFs and visual field maps within the visual cortex (Dumoulin, S. O., & Wandell, B. A. (2008). Population receptive field estimates in human visual cortex. NeuroImage, 39(2), 647–660. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3073038/).

The aim of the workshop is to familiarise yourself with fMRI analysis using mrVista and learn how to conduct visual field mapping using the pRF method - including data collection/running stimuli, structural processing and segmentation, pre-processing, running the model, localising visual field maps, and plotting data.

The workshop will run over 3 days at YNiC open plan and each session will cover both theory and practical. All required data and software will be supplied.

Dates scheduled are:

Monday 31st July 9:30am - 5pm

Tuesday 1st August 9:30am - 5pm

Monday 7th August 9:30am - 5pm

Please let me know if you are interested in attending or have any questions. Thanks.

Best,

Marc

Marc Himmelberg
PhD Student | ESR within NextGenVis ITN
PS/C018, Department of Psychology
University of York
York, YO10 5DD
UK