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SPM Course - fMRI & VBM

Course programme

This is a sample programme of the SPM course for fMRI and VBM. The course will consist of lectures and practical workshops where attendees will be guided through analyses of different neuroimaging datasets. To give you a taste of the course content, recordings of past course talks are linked on the programme.

Day 1

Time Title Faculty
08:45 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:15 Introduction & overview Dr Peter Zeidman & Dr Olivia Kowalczyk
09:15 - 10:00 Spatial preprocessing Prof John Ashburner
10:00 - 10:20 The general linear model Dr Nadège Corbin
Tea & coffee
10:50 - 11:25 Contrasts & classical inference Dr Vasileia Kotoula
11:25 - 12:10 Voxel-based morphometry Dr Christian Lambert
Comfort break
12:20 - 13:00 Random field theory Prof Tom Nichols
Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 Practical session I SPM faculty

Day 2

Time Title Faculty
09:15 - 10:05 Experimental design Dr Carolin Moessnang
Comfort break
10:15 - 11:00 Event-related fMRI Dr Sonia Medina
Tea & coffee
11:30 - 12:00 Group level analysis Dr Nadine Dijkstra
12:00 - 13:00 Q&A clinic SPM faculty
Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 Practical session II SPM faculty

Day 3

Time Title Faculty
09:15 - 10:00 Bayesian inference Prof Chris Mathys
10:00 - 10:20 Introduction to connectivity Dr Peter Zeidman
Tea & coffee
10:50 - 11:35 Introduction to DCM Dr Edda Bilek
11:35 - 12:20 DCM: Testing hypotheses Dr Peter Zeidman
12:20 - 13:00 Q&A clinic SPM faculty
Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 Practical session III SPM faculty