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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.

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 2010-11:

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Topic	References	Lecture Slides
October 7, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Marco Loggia [1]	Neuroanatomy for dummies	N/A	pdf
October 21, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Hari Bharadwaj [2]	Statistics	N/A	pdf
November 4, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Donald McLaren [3]	The GLM (General Linear Model)-- first and second-level models	N/A
November 18, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Adrian KC Lee [4]	Matlab	N/A	pdf review.m
December 2, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Khaldoun Makhoul [5]	UNIX and basic C shell scripting	N/A

Calendar 2009-10:

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Topic	References	Lecture Slides
** Nov 10, 2009 **	5pm	CNY149-2204	Prof. Randy Gollub [6]	Seminar on Grant Writing	N/A	PDF
Nov 19, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Adrian KC Lee [7]	How to use MATLAB? (Advanced)	PDF(m-files)	PDF
Dec 3, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Hari Bharadwaj [8]	Statistics (Beginners)	N/A	PDF
Dec 17, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Hari Bharadwaj [9]	Statistics (Advanced)	PDF PDF	PDF
Jan 14, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Allison Stevens [10]	Intro to FreeSurfer (Beginners)	N/A	PDF
Feb 4, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Nick Schmansky [11]	How do you use Qdec for group analysis of morphometric data?	N/A	PDF
Feb 18, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Lilla Zollei [12]	Basic C Shell scripting	PDF BOOK	PDF
March 4, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Marco Loggia [13]	By the way, where is the fornix??? An introduction to gross neuroanatomy	N/A	PDF MOVIE
March 18, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Anastasia Yendiki [14]	Introduction to DTI analysis	N/A	PDF
April 1, 2010	6pm	CNY149-2204	Aapo Nummenmaa [15]	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 [16]	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 [17]	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 [18]	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 [19]	Why do we have so many brain coordinate systems?	N/A	PDF
Dec 18, 2008	6pm	CNY149-2204	Allison Stevens [20]	How to use Freesurfer?	N/A	PDF
Jan 15, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Marco Loggia [21]	By the way, where is the fornix? An introduction to gross neuroanatomy	N/A	PDF
Feb 5, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Lilla Zollei [22]	Intro to basic statistics	N/A	PDF
Feb 19, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Katie Handwerger [23]	SPSS tutorial	N/A	PDF
March 5, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Aapo Nummenmaa [24]	Why is it called a current dipole?	Cohen.PDF	PDF1 PDF2
March 19, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Daniel Goldenholz [25]	How do we analyze MEG data?	N/A	PDF
April 2, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Nick Schmansky [26]	How do you use Qdec for group analysis of morphometric data?	N/A	PDF
April 30, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Rudolph Pienaar [27]	What is the physics behind MRI?	N/A	PDF1 PDF2
May 7, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Adrian KC Lee [28]	Why do we need Signal Processing N How do we conceptualize it?	N/A	PDF
May 21, 2009	6pm	CNY149-2204	Ed Vul [29]	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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