MRC Partnership Grant FieldTrip workshop in Birmingham

The official page for this workshop is hosted at http://www.aston.ac.uk/lhs/research/centres-facilities/brain-centre/fieldtrip-workshop-birmingham. Some details are copied here for reference and easier maintenance.

The workshop is funded and organised by the MRC Partnership Grant and kindly hosted by Aston University, Birmingham. The course venue is in the Main Building, level4, MB432.

Wed 17 - Fri 19 September 2014

Lecturers: Robert Oostenveld, Johanna Zumer.

Additional hands-on tutors: Tzvetan Popov, Hongfang Wang, Simon Hanslmayr.

Local organizers: Klaus Kessler and Ian Holliday.

Day 1 - Wednesday
13:00 – 13:30 Registration, coffee
13:30 – 13:45 Opening remarks

Session I
13:45 – 14:45 Lecture: An introduction to the MEG and the FieldTrip toolbox
14:45 – 15:00 Tea Break
15:00 – 17:00 Hands-on: Getting started with event-related fields

Day 2 - Thursday

Session II
9:15 – 10:15 Lecture: Fundamentals of neuronal oscillations and synchrony
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:30 Hands-on: Time-frequency analysis of power

Session III
13:45 – 14:45 Lecture: Beamformer techniques for source reconstruction
14:45 – 15:00 Tea break
15:00 – 17:00 Hands-on: Localizing visual gamma and cortico-muscular coherence

16:30 – 17:15 Wrap-up-the-day: “Ask the experts” session
17:15 - ??:?? Drinks in pub (Sacks of Potatoes) and dinner (Conference Aston)

Day 3 - Friday

Session IV
9:00 – 10:99 Lecture: Non-parametric randomization techniques
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee break
10:15 – 12:15 Hands-on: Parametric and non-parametric statistics on ERFs
12:15 – 13:00 Lunch

Session V
13:00 – 16:15 FieldTrip playground – analyze your own data and ask anything you want


• The Elekta/Neuromag data is described in detail on http://natmeg.se/wp/activities/data-analysis-workshop/