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Florence, Italy: October 1st & 2nd, 2013

SPR 2013 satellite meeting: two-day workshop featuring Brainstorm (Oct 1st) and SPM (Oct 2nd).
Visit the conference website:highlights and program.

General information

Where: Florence (Italy), Firenze Fiera Congress & Exhibition Center
PDA building (Palazzo Degli Affari) - SALA ADUA 1 - Primo Piano (First Floor) - Download map
Registration opens at 7:30am at PIAZZA ADUA (main entrance of the Congress Center)

When: October 1st & 2nd, 8:15am-6pm

Organizers & instructors : Stephan Moratti (UPM, Madrid), Sylvain Baillet, François Tadel and Elizabeth Bock (MNI/McGill, Montreal)

Target audience: Neuroscientists, psychologists, clinicians, engineers, etc. using MEG or EEG as advanced research tools. Students, post-docs, staff, faculty interested in learning a new academic software tool for MEG and EEG data analysis, with an emphasis on source imaging, spectral decompositions and functional connectivity metrics.

Objective: The aim of this two-days workshop is to train psychophysiologists/ neuroscientists with advanced EEG and MEG data analysis methods such as cortical source estimation, spectral decomposition, functional connectivity analysis and general linear models for statistical inference in EEG and MEG sensor and source space. The importance of clear, graphical representations of data and results for publication purposes will be also highlighted.

Workshop program: Day 1 (Brainstorm)

Requirements

The participants are required to bring a laptop (an external mouse will add to your comfort). In order to make the session as efficient as possible, we ask all the attendees to download, install and test the software and sample dataset on their laptops prior to the workshop.

Please read carefully the following instructions:
How to prepare your laptop for the training

7:30-8:15: Registration

08:15-9:00: Continental breakfast and laptop clinic

9:00-10:00: Brainstorm overview

10:00-10:45: Hands-on training begins

10:45-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-12:40: Hands-on training

12:40-13:30: Lunch break

13:30-15:00: Hands-on training resumes (coffee & refreshments served)

15:00-15:30: Coffee break

15:30-18:00: Advanced topics and open discussion

Workshop program: Day 2 (SPM8)

Requirements

Please go to http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/software/spm8/ and download and install the current SPM8 version. You can find all installation instructions on that website.

08:15-9:00: Continental breakfast and laptop clinic

9:30-10:15: SPM8 overview

10:15-11:30: Hands-on training

11:30-12:30: Lunch break (on your own)

12:30-2:15: Hand-on training

2:15-2:30: Coffee break

2:30-3:30: Hands-on training

3:30-4:30: Open discussion

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