Moscow: April 24, 2013

BioN MEG/EEG methodological school, full-day Brainstorm workshop. Conference link

General information

Where: Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Sretenka st. 29. (see link)

When: Wednesday, April 24, 9:30am-6pm

Instructors: Francois Tadel, Elizabeth Bock (MNI, McGill)

Target audience: Neuroscientists, biologists, 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.

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 carfully the following instructions:
How to prepare your laptop for the training

09:30-10:00: Laptop clinic

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

10:00-11:00: Brainstorm overview

• Introduction
• Software architecture
• Typical data workflow

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

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

11:30-11:45: Coffee break

11:45-13:00: Hands-on training

• Co-registration MEG/MRI
• Reviewing continuous recordings
• Artifact detection and correction
• Filtering and epoching
• Averaging, observation of a typical somato-sensory evoked response
• Head modeling, cortical source reconstruction

13:00-14:00: Lunch break

14:00-18:00: Hands-on training resumes (coffee & refreshments served)

• 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