FieldTrip workshop in Salzburg
Where
The University of Salzburg, with support from the TINNET-COST Action
When
9 - 11 December 2015
Who
Nietzsche Lam and Tzvetan Popov will be the lecturers and teachers.
Gaetan Sanchez, Nathan Weisz and Thomas Hartmann are the local organizers.
External Applicant Call
Applications for this workshop are now closed. Please check out our other upcoming workshops on here.
Program
Wednesday 09 December 2015
Session I
- 10:00 - 10:15 Registration, welcome and coffee
- 10:15 - 11:15 Lecture: Introduction to MEG and the FieldTrip Toolbox | Nietzsche Lam
- 11:15 - 11:30 Coffee break
- 11:30 - 13:30 Hands-on: Initiation to FieldTrip; Analyzing MEG data (event-related fields)
Session II
- 13:30 - 14:45 Lunch
- 14:45 - 15:45 Lecture: Introduction to EEG; Comparing EEG with MEG | Nietzsche Lam
- 15:45 - 16:00 Coffee break
- 16:00 - 18:00 Hands-on: Analyzing EEG data
- 18:00 - 18:30 Wrap-up-the-day and Summary
Thursday 10 December 2015
Session III
- 9:00 - 10:15 Lecture: Fundamentals of neuronal oscillations and synchrony | Nietzsche Lam
- 10:15- 10:30 Coffee break
- 10:30- 12:30 Hands-On: Time-frequency Analysis of Power
- 12:30- 13:45 Lunch
Session IV
- 13:45 - 14:45 Lecture: Source reconstruction in FieldTrip | Tzvetan Popov
- 14:45 - 15:00 Coffee break
- 15:00 - 17:00 Hands-on: Source Reconstruction on Oscillatory data (beamformer)
- 17:00 - 17:30 Wrap-up-the-day and Summary
- 19:00 - 23:00 Social Event
Friday 11 December 2015
Session V
- 9:00 - 10:15 Lecture: Non-parametric permutation techniques | Tzvetan Popov
- 10:15- 10:30 Coffee break
- 10:30- 12:30 Hands-On: Statistical Analyses
- 12:30- 13:45 Lunch
Session VI
- 13:45 - 14:45 FieldTrip Playground (bring your own data) | Tzvetan Popov and Nietzsche Lam
- 14:45 - 15:00 Coffee break
- 15:00 - 17:00 FieldTrip Playground (bring your own data)
- 17:00 - 17:30 Wrap-up-the-day and Closing remarks
Getting started with the hands-on sessions
For the hands-on sessions you have to start MATLAB. To ensure that everything runs smooth, we will work with a clean and well-tested version of FieldTrip that is distributed on a USB stick, rather than the version you might already have installed. (If you have a FieldTrip version dating from sometime in the last few weeks, that should be fine.) Importantly, the tutorial data does not have to be downloaded but will also be distributed on the USB stick.
- Copy the complete contents of the USB stick to your computer.
- Unzip the fieldtrip-xxxxxxxx.zip file.
- Put Subject01.zip in a directory called 'tutorial'.
After copying all files to your computer and unzipping then, you start MATLAB. To ensure that the right version of fieldtrip is used, and not another version (such as the one included in SPM or EEGLAB), you type in the MATLAB command window
restoredefaultpath cd path_to_directory/fieldtrip-xxxxxxxx addpath(pwd) ft_defaults
Please do NOT add fieldtrip with all subdirectories, subdirectories will be added automatically when needed, and only when needed.
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 path_to_directory/tutorial