Informazioni sul corso

The idea of this course is to provide an intuitive approach to the analyses of functional MRI (fMRI) data. This course will combine weekly one-hour theoretical lectures taught by different advanced researchers, followed by two hours of practical sessions per week. Throughout the course, we will use clear examples to guide intuition and make the assimilation of theoretical concepts easy and accessible. We will also provide practical sessions on the analysis of functional imaging data using the graphical user interface (GUI) of the SPM software. In addition, we will give examples of basic MATLAB scripts and will show how to derive them from the GUI interface. Finally, we will address common pitfalls that are encountered during fMRI analyses. We aim to provide students with a solid understanding of the different steps involved in standard fMRI analysis pipelines and endow them with the confidence necessary to apply these methods in their own research projects. Each lecture will introduce the next step in fMRI analysis pipelines, and the practical sessions will allow students to gain hands-on experience using SPM and MATLAB. Our classes will thoroughly cover fMRI preprocessing steps as well as basic and advanced models of fMRI analyses.