Halifax, Canada: February 16, 2013

General information

Where: Kenneth C. Rowe Bldg., Room 1009, Dalhousie University

When: Saturday, February 16, 8am-5pm

Hosted by: endMS Atlantic, RADIANT and NRC

Organizers: Timothy Bardouille, Jodi Reid, Lindsay Berrigan (Dalhousie University)

Instructors: Francois Tadel, Sylvain Baillet (MNI, McGill)

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.

Participation fees: $40 for trainees, $80 for faculty, free for endMS and RADIANT trainees

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

08:00-09:00: Laptop clinic and breakfast

• Bring your laptop if you are not sure you were successful in installing the material for the training session

09:00-09:15: Introduction by Sylvain Baillet

09:15-10:00: Brainstorm overview

• Software architecture
• Typical data workflow

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

• Database explorer
• Importing MRI volumes, surfaces and atlases
• Introduction to anatomical atlases

10:45-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-12:30: Hands-on training

• Co-registration MEG/MRI
• Reviewing continuous recordings
• Artifact detection and correction
• Filtering and epoching
• Averaging, observation of a typical somatosensory evoked response

12:30-13:30: Lunch break

13:30-17:00: Hands-on training resumes (coffee & refreshments served)

• Head modeling, cortical source reconstruction
• Definition of ROIs, tracking the processing of the sensory information millisecond by millisecond at the cortex level
• Frequency and time-frequency analysis
• Functional connectivity
• Group analysis and statistics
• Advanced scripting interface
• Other topics can be discussed depending on the audience specific requests