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MRC Partnership Grant FieldTrip workshop in Birmingham

MRC Partnership Grant FieldTrip workshop in Birmingham

The official page for this workshop is hosted here. Some details are copied here for reference and easier maintenance.

Where

The workshop is funded and organized by the MRC Partnership Grant and kindly hosted by Aston University, Birmingham. The course venue is in the Main Building, level4, MB432.

When

Wed 17 - Fri 19 September 2014

Who

Lecturers: Robert Oostenveld, Johanna Zumer.

Additional hands-on tutors: Tzvetan Popov, Hongfang Wang, Simon Hanslmayr.

Local organizers: Klaus Kessler and Ian Holliday.

Program

Day 1 - Wednesday

• 13:00 – 13:30 Registration, coffee
• 13:30 – 13:45 Opening remarks

Session I

• 13:45 – 14:45 Lecture: An introduction to the MEG and the FieldTrip toolbox
• 14:45 – 15:00 Tea Break
• 15:00 – 17:00 Hands-on: Getting started with event-related fields

Day 2 - Thursday

Session II

• 9:15 – 10:15 Lecture: Fundamentals of neuronal oscillations and synchrony
• 10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
• 10:30 – 12:30 Hands-on: Time-frequency analysis of power

Session III

• 13:45 – 14:45 Lecture: Beamformer techniques for source reconstruction

• 14:45 – 15:00 Tea break

• 15:00 – 17:00 Hands-on: Localizing visual gamma and cortico-muscular coherence

• 16:30 – 17:15 Wrap-up-the-day: “Ask the experts” session

• 17:15 - ??:?? Drinks in pub (Sacks of Potatoes) and dinner (Conference Aston)

Day 3 - Friday

Session IV

• 9:00 – 10:99 Lecture: Non-parametric randomization techniques
• 10:00 – 10:15 Coffee break
• 10:15 – 12:15 Hands-on: Parametric and non-parametric statistics on ERFs
• 12:15 – 13:00 Lunch

Session V

• 13:00 – 16:15 FieldTrip playground – analyze your own data and ask anything you want

Extra playground material

• The Neuromag/Elekta/MEGIN data is described in detail on http://natmeg.se/wp/activities/data-analysis-workshop/