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