Toolkit of Cognitive Neuroscience: EEG/MEG

• Where: Donders Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen
• When: 6-9 May 2014
• Who: Robert Oostenveld, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, et al.

For the hands-on sessions you have to start MATLAB. To ensure that everything runs smooth, we have prepareda clean and well-tested version of fieldtrip that is pre-installed on the hands-on computers. Importantly, you also do *not* need to download the tutorial data, these are already available on your computer.

After starting MATLAB, please ensure that the right version of FieldTrip is used, and not another version (such as the one included in SPM or EEGLAB). Type in the MATLAB command window

which ft_defaults

If you see that ft_defaults is found by MATLAB, you are all set. Otherwise (e.g. if you are working on personal laptop on the last day), you will have to set the path to FieldTrip using

restoredefaultpath
cd path_to_directory/fieldtrip-xxxxxxxx
addpath(pwd)
ft_defaults

The restoredefaultpath command clears your path, keeping only the official MATLAB toolboxes. The addpath(pwd) statement adds the present working directory, i.e. the directory containing the FieldTrip main functions. The ft_defaults command ensures that all required subdirectories are added to the path.

If you get the error “can't find the command ft_defaults” you should check the present working directory.

After installing fieldtrip to your path, you change into the tutorial directory

cd d:/toolkit

A PDF with the detailed program is available. See below for the relevant tutorials for the hands-on sessions.

• morning
  • 1h welcome and intro lecture
  • 1h data acquisition demo
• afternoon
  • 2h hands-on http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/tutorial/eventrelatedaveraging
  • 1h neuronal oscillations lecture
  • 1h wrap-up session
• evening
  • pub?

• morning
  • 2h hands-on http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/tutorial/timefrequencyanalysis
  • 1h forward and inverse modelling lecture
• afternoon
  • 1h beamforming lecture
  • 2h hands on http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/tutorial/beamformer
  • 1h wrap-up session
• evening
  • dinner http://goo.gl/maps/jwrEI

• morning
  • 1h non-parametric permutation statistics lecture
  • 2h hands-on:
    • http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/tutorial/cluster_permutation_timelock
    • http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/tutorial/cluster_permutation_freq
• afternoon
  • 1h connectivity lecture
  • 2h hands on http://fieldtrip.fcdonders.nl/tutorial/connectivity
  • 1h wrap-up session

• morning-afternoon
  • 5h playground (working on own data)
  • 1h testimonial & evaluation