Dear All,
I am pleased to announce that the next official SPM course covering fMRI/MRI/VBM will take place in London: *Thursday 14^th May to Saturday 16^th May 2015.*
The course is organised by the Methods Group at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging ("the FIL"), where SPM is developed. The three-day course will be divided into theoretical sessions covering experimental design and statistical inference and practical sessions in which SPM12 will be used to analyse exemplar data sets. This course is suitable for both beginners and more advanced users, with topics including image pre-processing, the general linear model (GLM), voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and Dynamic Causal Modelling (DCM). The course is held directly after the SPM for MEG/EEG course, which will be 11^th -13^th May at the same venue.
*Registration opens 9^th March*and places are strictly limited. If you would like an email reminder when registration opens, please add your email address here - https://spmcourses.typeform.com/to/W3VGTK .
The programme for the course is below.
Best,
Peter.
Peter Zeidman, PhD
Methods Group
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
12 Queen Square
London WC1N 3BG
peter.zeidman@ucl.ac.uk mailto:peter.zeidman@ucl.ac.uk
*Programme (provisional):*
*Thursday 14^th May*
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08:45 -- 09:15
Registration and Coffee
09:15 -- 09:30
Introduction to the Course
09:30 -- 10:00
Overview of SPM
10:00 -- 10:30
Pre-processing for fMRI -- Theory
10:30 -- 11:00
Pre-processing for fMRI -- Demo
/Coffee/
11:30 -- 12:00
The General Linear Model
12:00 -- 12:45
Contrasts and Classical Inference
/Lunch/
13:45 -- 14:15
Group Analysis
14:15 -- 15:00
Random Field Theory & Alternatives
/Tea/
15:30 -- 16:15
Segmentation and VBM -- Theory
16:15 -- 17:00
Segmentation and VBM -- Demo
17:00 -- 18:00
"Questions and Answers" Clinic
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*Friday 15^th May*
**
09:30 -- 10:15
Experimental Design
10:15 -- 11:00
Event-related fMRI -- Theory
/Coffee/
11:30 -- 12:15
Event-related fMRI -- Demo
12:15 -- 13:00
Bayesian Inference
/Lunch/
14:00 -- 15:00
Dynamic Causal Modelling for fMRI
/Tea/
15:30 -- 16:30
DCM for fMRI -- Advanced Topics
16:30 -- 17:15
DCM for fMRI -- Demo
17:15 -- 18:00
"Questions and Answers" Clinic
/18:30 --/
/Social Event/
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*Saturday 16^th May*
*PRACTICAL WORKSHOPS*
9:30 -- 10:00
Introduction; Allocation of Groups
10:00 -- 15:30
Parallel session in small groups covering: fMRI analyses (several groups depending on attendees' level of knowledge), Voxel-Based Morphometry (VBM) and Dynamic causal modelling (DCM).
/Coffee /
16:00 -- 17:00
Workshop feedback presentations
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Gary Green