BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250626T012107EDT-7913fbfuo9@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250626T052107Z DESCRIPTION:A week of hands-on training experience with MEG imaging\n \nFro m paradigm design to advanced data analysis\nWhere:\nMEG Unit\, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre\nMontreal Neurological Institute\, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø \n3801 University St\, Montreal (Canada)\nWhen:\n\nMarch 16-20\, 2015\nReg istration deadline: February 27\, 2015\nTarget audience:\nStudents\, resea rchers and staff with no prior experience with MEG\n\nParticipation fees: \n\n 5-day course: McGillians: $1\,000 - Externals: $1\,200\; (4 groups of 3 people each)\n First day only (full-day lectures): McGillians: $50 - Exte rnals: $100\n Registration\n\n \n\nProgram overview\n\nDay 1: Full-day MEG/ EEG imaging crash course\n\n \n Principles and foundations: physics\, physio logy\, instrumentation and signal formation\, neural oscillations\n \n \n Typ ical paradigm designs\n \n \n Time series analysis and imaging\, event-relate d responses\, spectral and time-frequency decompositions\,functional conne ctivity\n \n\nNext 4 days are hands-on\, in small groups (3 per group\, 4 g roups max)\nDay 2: Hands-on practical paradigm design: design your pilot s tudy in small groups\nDay 3: Hands-on data collection: collect your own da ta\nDay 4: Hands-on analysis of collected data using Brainstorm (including software training)\nDay 5: Advanced data analysis continues and group pre sentations: what have we learned?\nRegister now!\n\nDetailed program\nExce pt where indicated\, all trainers are members of the MEG@51³Ô¹ÏÍøcore unit  at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre\n\nDay 1: Lectures\n08:00-09:00: Bre akfast\, Welcome\n09:00-13:00: Foundations of MEG/EEG\nThe physiological o rigins of scalp signals (Baillet)\nQ&A\, coffee \nInstrumentation & enviro nment (Bock)\n\nQ&A\, coffee \nBasic signal extraction: ERP/ERFs (Moreau) (30mins)\nSpectral analysis (Fourier\, wavelet decompositions\, Hilbert tr anform) (Donhauser) \n13:00-14:00: Lunch break\n14:00-18:00: Special Empha sis: Signal Analysis of Neural Oscillations\, Cross-Frequency Coupling & F unctional Connectivity\nNeural oscillations (Jerbi\, Dept of Psychology\, University of Montreal)\nQ&A\, coffee (30 mins)\nCross-frequency coupling: methods & what do we know? (Samiee)\nQ&A\, coffee (30 mins)\nMethods for detecting inter-regional interactions (Niso-Galan)\nDay 2: MEG by example: Design your first experiment\n08:30-12:30: MEG by example\nDecision-makin g (Vaidya) \n Memory - monitoring (Petrides)\n Steady-state visual responses (Chadnova) \n Induced visual gamma (Donhauser)\n Q&A\, coffee (30 mins)\n \n Speech (Donhauser) \n Auditory processes (Albouy) \n Dynamics of multimodal interactions (Morillon)\n Real-time imaging & biofeedback\, neurofeedback ( Samiee)\n\n12:30-13:30: Lunch break\n13:30-17:30: Break-out groups per neu roscience interest: Design your first experiment\nForm small focus groups (vision\, attention\, memory\, sensori-motor\, etc.)\n Brainstorm and desig n your first MEG study \n Used Psychtoolbox script templates\n Test in MEG s uite\n\nDay 3: Data collection in practice (antomical MRI and MEG: 2 hours max per group)\nAM: Groups 1 & 2\n Free: Groups 3 & 4 \nPM: Groups 3 & 4\n Free: Groups 1 & 2\nLaunch Freesurfer pipeline on acquired MRI volumes ove rnight\n\nDay 4: Hands-on analysis of collected data using Brainstorm\n08: 00-18:00: Pre-processing/basic analysis on the data they collected\nEach g roup assisted by an MEG expert\; includes sofware training with Brainstorm .\nDay 5: Advanced data analysis and group presentations\n08:00-12:00: Adv anced analysis\n\nEach group will be assisted by an MEG expert\; prepare p resentations for data analysis competition\n13:00-15:00: Data analysis com petition\nEach group presents to the MEG@McGill Team (30 mins each)\nBest narrative & analysis wins special prize!\n15:00-20:00: Montreal 5@7 and di nner\n\n\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150316 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150320 LOCATION:Montreal Neurological Institute\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2B4\, 3 801 rue University SUMMARY:MEG@51³Ô¹ÏÍøComprehensive Training URL:/bic/channels/event/megmcgill-comprehensive-traini ng-241537 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR