Osaka, Japan: May 31st, 2014
Workshop following the 29th Annual Meeting of Japan Biomagnetism and Bioelectromagnetics Society.
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General information
Where:
Osaka University Convention Center Meeting Room 2
1-1, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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When:
Saturday, May 31st, 8:15-18:00
Organizers:
Kikuko Nagao (Boston Children's Hospital)
Francois Tadel, Sylvain Baillet (Montreal Neurological Institute / McGill University)
Target audience:
MEG and EEG users interested in analyzing their results using Brainstorm. No specific background required. Teaching in English with help from Japanese-speaking experts.
Participation fees:
80 USD / 8000 JPY (students)
120 USD / 12000 JPY (faculty, staff, post-docs)
Maximum attendance: 120
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
Workshop program
08:15-09:00: Welcome and laptop clinic
- Come early for assistance in installing the material for the training session
09:00-10:00: Brainstorm overview
Software architecture and typical data workflow: Download slides | スライド日本語訳
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
11:00-12:40: 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
- Head modeling, cortical source reconstruction
12:40-13:30: Lunch break (lunch not provided)
13:30-15:00: Hands-on training resumes
- Definition of ROIs, tracking the processing of the sensory information at the cortex level
- Frequency and time-frequency analysis
- Functional connectivity
15:00-15:30: Coffee break
15:30-18:00: Advanced topics and open discussion
- Group analysis and statistics
- Advanced scripting interface
- Other topics can be discussed depending on the audience specific requests