Advanced Neuroimaging

PSY.842

Author

Natalia Zaretskaya

Published

SS 2026

Welcome!

(c) Adam Coates
Course schedule {#tbl-schedule tbl-colwidths=“[10,20,30,30,10]”} (subject to changes)
Session # Date and time Specific topic TODO for this class Estimated workload (h)
1 03.03.2026 Organization and introduction to fMRI nothing 0
2 10.03.2026 fMRI Paradigm Install PsychoPy, go through the tutorial 4
3 17.03.2026

Project slam and public vote

(Winner does not need to write an introduction)

Prepare a presentation of your project (See Presentation Guidelines and Presentation Evaluation Criteria) 4
24.03.2026 no class
4 14.04.2026

Implementation slam and second public vote

(Winner does not need to write the experiment description)

Implement your project in PsychoPy, show it to the class 8
5 21.04.2026 Data management I Neurodesk registration 4
6 28.04.2026

Data management II

Experiment feedback

Every course participant performs 3 rounds of the experiment and gives feedback 1
7 05.05.2026 Preprocessing Run MRIQC 1
8 12.05.2026 Analysis: General linear model Run preprocessing 4
9 19.05.2026 Result visualization and reporting Volume space analysis 4
10 02.06.2026 Analysis: Other analyses types Surface space analysis 4
11 09.06.2026

Result presentation slam, public vote

(winner does not need to write a results section)

Prepare a poster with images 8
12 16.06.2026 Writing an fMRI article Read an example fMRI article 2
13 23.06.2026 Final session (study examples), course evaluation Report draft (voluntary) 8
14 TBA Data acquisition in the MRI lab
TBA Report deadline 23