The first BrainVoyager training course of this year will take place from 22nd to 24th of February 2001. It will be held by Rainer Goebel, author of BrainVoyager, together with colleagues who have at least one year of intensive experience in using the software. The first two days comprise a basic course whereas the third day aims at users having already worked with BrainVoyager and wish to learn more about the exciting advanced features of the software. You can register for the basic course (2 days), the advanced course (1 day) or for the whole course (three days). Registering for all three days is recommended for those users who want to refresh and update their knowledge of basic analysis steps but also want to learn about the latest development.
In the morning sessions, lectures on how to use BrainVoyager will be presented with a focus on the background knowledge. The afternoon sessions offer the opportunity to work with BrainVoyager on sample data (first two days) as well as with your own data (third day). These exercises are supervised by at least six tutors. For the exercises, several powerful workstations (Dual Pentium III 733 MHz, Athlon 800 MHz, Pentium IV 1.4GHz) are available. Attendees should be familiar with essential concepts of functional MRI and basic knowledge in statistics.
Note, that the number of participants is limited to 20 persons. The participation costs are EUR 200 for the basic course (2 days) and EUR 100 for the advanced course (1 day). The costs cover the course, lunch and refreshments but do not include accommodation. If you are interested in participating on this course, send an email to Course@BrainVoyager.com. You will then receive further information about the course, its location and addresses of hotels.
Day 1 - Basic I
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Introduction and Overview |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Creating projects, stimulation protocols, data preprocessing |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
- Coffee break - |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Talairach transformation of functional and anatomical data sets |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Statistical analysis of block and event-related designs I |
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
- Lunch break - |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Exercise 1: Analyzing a block-design experiment I |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
- Coffee break - |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Exercise 2: Analyzing a block-design experiment II |
Day 2 - Basic II
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Statistical analysis of block and event-related designs II |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Segmentation and surface reconstruction of head and cortex |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
- Coffee break - |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Cortex-based real-time fMRI |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | BrainVoyager and BESA - Combined fMRI and MEG/EEG data analysis |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
- Lunch break - |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Exercise 1: Analyzing an event-related paradigm |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
- Coffee break - |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Exercise 2: Segmentation and cortex flattening |
Day 3 - Advanced
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Cortex-based Independent Component Analysis |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Interoperability: Accessing BrainVoyager from scripts, Matlab and C++ |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
- Coffee break - |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Manual segmentation, interactive flattening and activation movies |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Analyzing retinotopic mapping experiments |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
- Lunch break - |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Discussing hot questions of participants |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
- Coffee break - |
| 16:30 - 20:00 | Analyzing data sets of participants |