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Brain Mapping Workshop
[undergraduates, graduates, postdoc fellows, research staff and faculty]

During the winter quarter, on Tuesday afternoon from 3 to 6 PM, a brain mapping workshop is organized at the Brain Research Imaging Center.

Location: Conference Room Q300 C at the Brain Research Imaging Center - University of Chicago Hospital (3rd floor) - 5841 S. Maryland Ave. MC-2030, Chicago, IL 60637.
If your walking from the campus, you may enter the Surgery Brain Research Lobby on Ellis street, next the bookstore.

This workshop addresses a number of issues related to human brain mapping for people interested in combining in vivo brain measures with questions from neurology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology, developmental science, clinical psychology, psychiatry and economics. These issues include:

Brain mapping methods (e.g., fMRI, DTI, ERPs, EEG)
Functional neuroanatomy
Paradigm design for functional MRI experiments
Imaging pulse sequences
Imaging data and statistical analysis
Specialized lectures

The worshop is a forum where new neuroimaging projects are discussed at any stage i.e., during conceptualization, preparation of the paradigm, data collection, data analysis, and data interpretation.

This meeting is open to public. Anyone involved in neuroimaging research is welcome to attend this weekly workshop. Students can register for the workshop and get credit.

For students taking this class for credit, grades are broken down as follows: 40% class attendance and participation, 10 % short presentation on the last day of class and 50 % final paper. This final paper should be a 5-page research proposal that describes a neuroimaging study, and should include the following elements: an introduction that gives the motivation and background of the proposed study, its context in the current literature; the research design and hypotheses to be tested, expected results; and the contribution of the study to their chosen academic area (e.g., social neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, neuroeconomics, clinical psychology or psychiatry).

Coordinating Faculty:
Dr. Jean Decety, Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, and co-Director the the Brain Research Imaging Center.