Welcome
to Methods for Dummies!
Methods for
Dummies (MfD) is a course taught by its participants, and aims to
give a basic introduction to human brain imaging analysis methods,
focusing on fMRI and M/EEG. The course is open to anyone who is
willing to commit to giving at least one of the lectures of the
course. Don't worry if you don't know much yet, you'll get help
preparing your lecture!
Slides from previous years are all online for you to use, you will present in pairs of two, and there will be a resident expert assigned to you to help you figure out how best to explain and demonstrate your analysis method. You will be given the opportunity to ask them questions and rehearse your presentation with them and on the day of your lecture they will be there to (help you) answer questions.
Meetings are held on Wednesday afternoons from 12.00 - 13.00 via Zoom.
See
the presentation schedule for MfD 2020/2021 **HERE**
Why
should I sign up?
The MfD
course is a unique opportunity to learn from and with your peers
about analysis methods used and developed at the FIL.
The great
thing about the course and the reason for its continued popularity
is that it is taught by its participants. This means that if you
are willing to commit to giving a lecture, you will be returned
with an excellent grounding in a range of analysis methods, the
opportunity to explore topics that particularly interests you in
more depth and get answers to basic questions of practical
importance for you. Furthermore, the course aims to provide
demonstrations of how to use the relevant SPM functions so you
will be able to understand and
use them.
See one - Do
one - Teach one.
Bonus
reason to sign up: a signed certificate stating that you
gave a lecture (and its topic) at the end of the course.
What does it involve?
Giving a
short (~20 minute) presentation along with a partner on a topic of
your choice. There will be an expert at hand to help you and you
are not expected to know or have used the method before. The most
important thing is that once you commit to giving a talk you don't
cancel last minute. That way, everyone gets the most out of it.
Each talk will be 45 min + time for questions. Generally it should
introduce the relevant theory followed by a practical step-by-step
walk through the SPM12 interface.
The aim is
to make these topics understandable to people like yourselves, who
may know very little about statistics, neuro-imaging or SPM.
You're not trying to teach experts. The environment is very
friendly and informal so there is nothing to fear!
See the Presenter's
Guide, slides from previous years,
and Resources.
Don't just copy the old slides though, many things have changed
over the years and your information should be up to date and
include as many practical examples as possible.
On the day of your presentation you just need to share your slides via Zoom with all participants.
Registration for the 2020/2021 Session : **HERE**