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All readings are based on the Huettel et al. book unless otherwise mentioned.
- Week of Sept. 2nd
- Sept 2: No meeting
- Sept 4: FIRST MEETING – Introduction to class (Bavelier); Intro to MR (Zhong) – Readings: ch. 1 and 2
- Week of Sept. 8th
- Sept 9: MR signal generation (Zhong); Image evaluation (Bavelier) - Readings: ch. 1 and 3
- Sept 11 Hands-on 1: Visit RCBI - Safety issues reviewed, data collection, coil, stimulus delivery; Intro to Matlab.
- Week of Sept. 15th
- Sept 16: MR Image formation | Part II (Zhong) - Readings: ch. 3 and 4
- Sept 18 Hands-on 2: Viewing anatomical data, gross anatomy
- Week of Sept. 22nd
- Sept 23: MR contrast mechanism and pulse sequence (Zhong) – Readings: ch. 5 and 7
- Sept 25 - Hands-on 3: k-space (Lab summary #1)
- Week of Sept. 29th
- Sept 30: MR contrast mechanism and pulse sequence (Zhong) – Readings: ch. 5 and 7
- Oct 2 - Hands-on 4: Contrast and segmentation (Lab summary #2)
- Week of Oct. 6th
- Oct 7: From neuronal to hemodynamic activity (Bavelier) – Readings: ch. 6 and 7
- Oct 9 - Hands-on 5: Preprocessing
- Week of Oct. 13
- Oct 14: Spatial/temporal properties of fMRI/more BOLD (Bavelier) - Readings: ch. 8 and 9
- Oct 16: Hands-on 6: Signal averaging, SNR, temporal sampling (Lab summary #3)
- Week of Oct. 20th
- Oct 21: Experimental Design (Bavelier) – Readings: ch. 10, 11 and 12
- Oct 23 - Hands-on 7: Single-subject blocked and event-related analysis (Lab summary #4)
- Week of Oct. 27th
- TOPIC FOR ORAL PRESENTATION DUE (EMAIL TOPIC TO INSTRUCTORS)
- Oct 28: Advanced fMRI methods (Zhong) – Readings: ch 14
- Oct 30 - Hands-on 8: Multiple-subject analysis (Lab summary #5)
- Week of Nov. 3rd
- Nov 4: MR BOLD Applications (Bavelier) Readings: ch 13
- Nov 6 - Hands-on 9: Region of Interest Data Analysis (Lab summary #6)
- FINAL PROJECT ASSIGNED
- Week of Nov. 10th
- Nov 11: DTI and its application (Zhong)
- Nov 13 - Hands-on 10: DTI analysis (Lab summary #7)
- Week of Nov. 17th
- Nov 18 : Student Oral Presentation
- Nov 20 : Student Oral Presentation
- Week of Nov. 24th Thanksgiving
- Nov 25: No class Thanksgiving week
- Week of Dec. 1st
- Dec 2 – Converging operations (Bavelier) – Readings: ch. 15
- Dec 4 - Hands-on 11: Retinotopic analysis (Lab Summary #8)
- Week of Dec 8th
- Dec 9 : No class - Final project due on Dec 10th
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