This course will provide theoretical and practical training on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experimental design, data preprocessing, and analysis. The main fMRI data analysis programs used in this course will be Statistical Parametric Mapping 8 (SPM8) running on Matlab. Other tools will be introduced as needed. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging will also be introduced as another functional brain imaging tool.

Prerequisites: Course participants must be graduate students of the Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences. Graduate students external to this institute may be admitted with approval from their advisors as well as the course instructors. Students should bring their own computers with their own copy of Matlab installed. If students are using Windows machines, Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/; all packages) must also be installed for FSL.

Week Date Topic Lecturer
1 2015/9/18 Basic MR Physics Isaac Wen-Yih Tseng
2 2015/9/25 fMRI Principles of Measuring Neural Activity Ming-Tsung Tseng
3 2015/10/2 fMRI Principles of Experimental Design Joshua Oon Soo Goh
4 2015/10/9 National Day -
5 2015/10/16 Presenting Stimuli with E-Prime Joshua Oon Soo Goh
6 2015/10/23 Presenting Stimuli with Presentation Ming-Tsung Tseng
7 2015/10/30 Visit to Prisma Ming-Tsung Tseng
8 2015/11/6 fMRI Data Preprocessing Joshua Oon Soo Goh
9 2015/11/13 Probability, t-test, ANOVA Joshua Oon Soo Goh
10 2015/11/20 Multiple Regression Joshua Oon Soo Goh
11 2015/11/27 fMRI Data First-level Statistical Analysis Joshua Oon Soo Goh
12 2015/12/4 fMRI Data Analysis: Higher-level Analysis Joshua Oon Soo Goh
13 2015/12/11 Regions-Of-Interest Analysis Joshua Oon Soo Goh
14 2015/12/18 PET Imaging Kai-Yuan Tzen
15 2015/12/25 Student Project Presentations -
16 2016/1/1 New Year’s Day -
17 2016/1/8 Break for examination period -