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"Why & How" Seminar Series

Lectures are held on the first and third Thursdays of the month at 6PM, in the 2204 conference room of Building 149. Snacks are served 20 minutes prior to the talk (no food is allowed inside the conference room).

Organizers: Ellen Lau (ellenlau@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu) and Khaldoun Makhoul (khaldoun@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu)
Mailing List: https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/whynhow

Calendar 2011-12:

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Topic	References	Lecture Slides
September 29, 2011	6pm	CNY149-2204	Khaldoun Makhoul [1]	Linux Computing Part I	N/A	pdf
October 6, 2011	6pm	CNY149-2204	Khaldoun Makhoul [2]	Linux Computing Part II	N/A	pdf
October 13, 2011	6pm	CNY149-2204	Khaldoun Makhoul [3]	MRI Physics I	N/A	pdf
November 3, 2011	6pm	CNY149-2204	Alex Gramfort	Python for Matlab users	N/A	pdf
November 17, 2011	6pm	CNY149-2204	Aapo Nummenmaa	Matlab	N/A	pdf
December 1, 2011	6pm	CNY149-2204	Dylan Tysdall	MRI Syngo Training	N/A
December 15, 2011	6pm	CNY149-2204	Anna Moore	Intro to Molecular Imaging	N/A
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January 19, 2012	6pm	CNY149-2204	Doug Greve	Intro to fsFast	N/A	pdf
February 2, 2012	6pm	CNY149-2204	Louis Vinke	Intro to FreeSurfer	N/A
February 16, 2012	6pm	CNY149-2204	Donald McLaren	The General Linear Model in fMRI analysis	N/A
March 1, 2012	6pm	CNY149-2204	Sheraz Khan		N/A
March 15, 2012	6pm	CNY149-2204	Marco Loggia	Neuroanatomy for Dummies	N/A
March 29, 2012	6pm	CNY149-2204	Juliette Selb	Intro to NIRS	N/A
April 5, 2012	6pm	CNY149-2204	Martin Luessi	Intro to Github	N/A
April 19, 2012	6pm	CNY149-2204	Satra Ghosh	Intro to Nipype	N/A
TBA	6pm	CNY149-2204	Khaldoun Makhoul [4]	MRI Physics II	N/A

Calendar 2010-11:

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Topic	References	Lecture Slides
October 7, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Marco Loggia [5]	Neuroanatomy for dummies	N/A	pdf
October 21, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Hari Bharadwaj [6]	Statistics	N/A	pdf
November 4, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Donald McLaren [7]	The GLM (General Linear Model)-- first and second-level models	N/A	pdf
November 18, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Adrian KC Lee [8]	Matlab	N/A	pdf review.m comb.m comb2.m factorial.m factorial2.m
December 2, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Khaldoun Makhoul [9]	UNIX and basic C shell scripting	N/A	pdf
February 3, 2011	6pm	CNY149-2204	Allison Stevens	FreeSurfer	N/A	pdf
February 17, 2011	6pm	CNY149-2204	Jean Chen	Arterial Spin Labeling	N/A	pdf
March 3, 2011	6pm	CNY149-2204	Aapo Nummenmaa	MEG	N/A	pdf
March 8, 2011	6pm	CNY149-2204	Prof. Randy Gollub [10]	Seminar on Grant Writing		ppt
March 17, 2011	6pm	CNY149-2204	Sheraz Khan [11]	PsychToolbox for Stimuli Presentation		ppt .m tutorial
April 7, 2011	6pm	CNY149-2204	Dionyssios Mintzopoulos [12]	Introduction to R	N/A	pdf
April 28, 2011	6pm	CNY149-2204	Khaldoun Makhoul [13]	MR Physics	N/A	pdf
May 5, 2011	6pm	CNY149-2204	Ellen Lau [14]	Practical Issues for Multimodal Neuroimaging		pdf
May 19, 2011	6pm	CNY149-2204	Anastasia Yendiki [15]	Introduction to DTI	N/A	ppt

Calendar 2009-10:

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Topic	References	Lecture Slides
** Nov 10, 2009 **	5pm	CNY149-2204	Prof. Randy Gollub [16]	Seminar on Grant Writing	N/A	PDF
Nov 19, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Adrian KC Lee [17]	How to use MATLAB? (Advanced)	PDF(m-files)	PDF
Dec 3, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Hari Bharadwaj [18]	Statistics (Beginners)	N/A	PDF
Dec 17, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Hari Bharadwaj [19]	Statistics (Advanced)	PDF PDF	PDF
Jan 14, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Allison Stevens [20]	Intro to FreeSurfer (Beginners)	N/A	PDF
Feb 4, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Nick Schmansky [21]	How do you use Qdec for group analysis of morphometric data?	N/A	PDF
Feb 18, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Lilla Zollei [22]	Basic C Shell scripting	PDF BOOK	PDF
March 4, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Marco Loggia [23]	By the way, where is the fornix??? An introduction to gross neuroanatomy	N/A	PDF MOVIE
March 18, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Anastasia Yendiki [24]	Introduction to DTI analysis	N/A	PDF
April 1, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Aapo Nummenmaa [25]	Interpreting MEG data in terms of "distributed sources": under the cover of MNE	N/A	PDF
April 15, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Adrian KC Lee [26]	How to navigate through the MEG-MNE workflow?	N/A	PDF
May 6, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	--	--	N/A
May 20, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Kara Dyckman [27]	Where do those pretty colored blobs come from? An introduction to the BOLD signal and fMRI designs.	N/A	PDF

Beginner's level: No prior knowledge assumed. First exposure or a refresher to the topic.

Advanced level: Prior knowledge assumed. Please check the relevant beginner's level Why.N.How section offered previously for assumed knowledge.

Calendar 2008-09:

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Topic	References	Lecture Slides
Nov 6, 2008	6pm	CNY149-2204	Adrian KC Lee [28]	Why do we need to know about Linear Algebra?	N/A	PDF
Nov 20, 2008	6pm	CNY149-2204	Emily Israeli (eisraeli@nmr)	How do we use MATLAB? -- an introductory session.	N/A	PDF ZIP
Dec 4, 2008	6pm	CNY149-2204	Lilla Zollei [29]	Why do we have so many brain coordinate systems?	N/A	PDF
Dec 18, 2008	6pm	CNY149-2204	Allison Stevens [30]	How to use Freesurfer?	N/A	PDF
Jan 15, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Marco Loggia [31]	By the way, where is the fornix? An introduction to gross neuroanatomy	N/A	PDF
Feb 5, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Lilla Zollei [32]	Intro to basic statistics	N/A	PDF
Feb 19, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Katie Handwerger [33]	SPSS tutorial	N/A	PDF
March 5, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Aapo Nummenmaa [34]	Why is it called a current dipole?	Cohen.PDF	PDF1 PDF2
March 19, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Daniel Goldenholz [35]	How do we analyze MEG data?	N/A	PDF
April 2, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Nick Schmansky [36]	How do you use Qdec for group analysis of morphometric data?	N/A	PDF
April 30, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Rudolph Pienaar [37]	What is the physics behind MRI?	N/A	PDF1 PDF2
May 7, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Adrian KC Lee [38]	Why do we need Signal Processing N How do we conceptualize it?	N/A	PDF
May 21, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Ed Vul [39]	Discussion on "Voodoo Correlations"	N/A	PDF

To facilitate discussion on Ed Vul's paper, we have made the following papers / links available:

Vul et al (2009), "Puzzlingly high correlations in fMRI studies of emotion, personality and social cognition," Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4(3):274-290. (formerly known as "Voodoo Correlations" paper)

Lieberman et al (in press), "Correlations in social neuroscience aren't voodoo: A reply to Vul et al," Perspectives on Psychological Science

Vul et al (2009), "Reply to Comments on 'Puzzlingly high correlations in fMRI studies of emotion, personality and social cognition", 4(3):319-324.

Vul and Kanwisher (in press), "Begging the Question: The Non-Independence Error in fMRI Data Analysis." in Hanson & Brunzl (eds.), Foundations and Philosophy for Neuroimaging.

Jabbi et al, "Response to 'Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience' by Vul et al. - summary information for the press"

Slides from Bob Cox (NIMH) discussion on Voodoo Correlations

For more rebuttals on the Voodoo correlations paper, please visit Ed Vul's website.

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