SPM8 Quick Start is one-day workshop designed for investigators with some experience in functional neuroimaging but little or no recent SPM experience.

The workshop will focus on the fundamentals of using the core SPM8 functions for preprocessing, statistical modeling and visualization of data associated with simple fMRI experimental designs. Lectures will be linked with interactive tutorial exercises that will provide participants with experience using SPM8. Anyone planning to use SPM as their primary statistical analysis and preprocessing software package should benefit from this program.

The presentations will include demonstrations and tutorials utilizing SPM8. Participants are expected to bring a laptop with MATLAB, SPM8 and MRIcron already installed.

The course instructors are Thomas Zeffiro and Robert Savoy.

Registration information for this program may be found here.

Information about accomodations may be found here.

Educational Objectives

   * Understand the basic organization of the SPM GUI
   * Understand the basic fMRI data preprocessing steps
   * Be able to construct a basicpreprocessing sequence
   * Be able to implement segmentation of structural volumes
   * Be able to build a design matrix for block and stochastic fMRI designs
   * Be able to interpret the SPM8 results table
   * Be able to construct a batch script including:
                  preprocessing
                  design specification
                  estimation

Schedule

9:00AM - 12:00PM    Introduction and preprocessing

12:00PM - 1:30PM    LUNCH

1:30PM - 4:30PM     Statistical modeling

4:30PM - 5:30PM     Review and questions

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