Montreal, Canada: October 24, 2013

Introduction to the Brainstorm time-frequency and functional connectivity tools, as part of the 4-day workshop "Scale-free dynamics and networks in neurosciences" on October 21-24, 2013.
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General information

Where: Centre de recherches mathématiques, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt
2920, Chemin de la tour, 5th floor
Map of the campus: download.

When: October 24, 14:00-18:00

Organizers & instructors : Philippe Ciuciu (CEA/Neurospin & INRIA), Jean-Marc Lina (ETS & CRM)

Instructors : François Tadel, Elizabeth Bock (MNI/McGill, Montreal)

Workshop program

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

14:00-14:30: Brainstorm overview

• Software architecture
• Typical data workflow

14:30-15:45: Importing data in Brainstorm

• Database explorer
• Importing MRI volumes, surfaces and atlases
• Introduction to anatomical atlases
• Reviewing continuous recordings
• Epoching and averaging
• Observation of a typical somatosensory evoked response
• Head modeling, cortical source reconstruction
• Definition of ROIs

15:45-16:00: Coffee break

16:00-17:45: Advanced topics

• Frequency and time-frequency analysis
• Functional connectivity

17:45-18:00: Questions and discussion