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Current Courses for Spring 2009 |
This course aims to provide a solid foundation in fMRI experimental design, implementation and analysis. Students will gain sufficient knowledge to conduct independent, high quality research, using functional MRI. They learn how an fMRI study is designed and optimized, how to collect data on a MRI scanner, methods for assessing data quality and current approaches for analyzing FMRI data. The course is designed as a lab course with minimal lecture time and will include hands-on tutorials in the use of several commonly used software packages including FSL and FREESURFER as well as using Matlab to work with imaging data. The students will work on data analysis projects throughout the semester both independently and in small groups and ultimately will propose, design, collect data on at least one participant, and analyze an fMRI study in their own area of interest.
From electrophysiology to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), studies utilizing brain imaging technologies have become pervasive in the Psychology and Neuroscience literatures. How do the new techniques work and what do they tell us about how the mind works? The course will focus primarily on these questions. After a basic overview of brain imaging techniques and the mental process that can be inferred from these methodologies, the course will explore some of the "seminal" works in functional imaging. Students then branch out into a specific area of interest (i.e. - language, attention, vision, memory, social psychology) and develop an in class presentation and a final research proposal. There are hands-on laboratory sessions in EEG, functional MRI and structural MRI. |
Previous Courses |
PSY 394U - Analysis of fMRI Data PSY 394U - Current Topics in Cognition
PSY 341k - Human Brain Imagaing in Psychology |