Brainstorm workshop survey: Orlando 2014
Selected comments from attendees
Survey results
Number of participants: 35
Number of returned documents: 13 (37%)
Link to the pdf document.
Summary
- Before today's class, how would you describe your use of Brainstorm:
Never used: 54%
- Some simulation work: 8%
- Some experimental work: 38%
- Experienced user: 0%
- How helpful was the class in learning Brainstorm: 1(worst) to 5(best)
- 1: 0%
- 2: 0%
- 3: 0%
4: 77%
5: 23%
- Did you try the online tutorial before coming to class:
- Yes: 62%
- No: 31%
- N/A: 8%
- Interested in using Brainstorm for:
- EEG: 77%
- MEG: 77%
- MEG+EEG: 54%
- NIRS: 0%
- sEEG/ECoG: 8%
- Scripting: 23%
- Pre-processing: 46%
- Visualization of recordings: 53%
- Source analysis: 69%
- Time-frequency: 54%
- Functional connectivity: 46%
- Statistics: 38%
- Research: 85%
- Clinical applications: 38%
- Epilepsy: 46%
- Baby / infant studies: 0%
Comments and suggestions
The number indicates the number of participants who made similar comments.
Comments about the workshop
Good pace and clarity: 11
Too fast in general: 1
Too fast in the afternoon: 2
- Screen was too small: 1
- Too many divergent discussions: 1
- Room too cold: 1
Missing topics and requests
- More on statistics: 2 (not covered in the training)
- More on scripting: 1
- Sensor-level analysis: 1
- Use of anatomical atlases: 1
- Granger causality: 1
- Less on methods, more on software tricks: 1
- Manipulating complex events/conditions: 1
Missing tools in Brainstorm
- Beamformers: 4
- Statistics: 4
- Import from other programs (MNE, SPM): 2
- Other TF methods: 1
- Connectivity tutorials: 1
- Statistical significance thresholds on connectivity results: 1
- Cerebellum imported by default: 1
- Annotated dipole fits: 1
- fMRI processing: 1
- NIRS: 1
Technical issues
Out of memory while importing anatomy: 10
Windows PC with no admin rights: 4
- Function fminsearch missing in Matlab: 1
Results analysis
Results encoding
- 1=Never used, 2=Some simulation work, 3=Some experimental work, 4=Experienced user, 0=NA
- How helpful: 1(worst) to 5(best), 0=N/A
- Online tutorials before coming: 1=No, 2=Yes, 0=N/A
Results values
- 1 1 1 3 1 3 1 3 1 2 3 3 1
- 4 5 4 4 4 4 5 4 5 4 4 4 4
- 0 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 2