Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is the most widely used technique for investigating the living, functioning human brain as people perform tasks and experience mental states. It is a convergence point for multidisciplinary work from many disciplines. Psychologists, statisticians, physicists, computer scientists, neuroscientists, medical researchers, behavioral scientists, engineers, public health researchers, biologists, and others are coming together to advance our understanding of the human mind and brain. This course covers the design, acquisition, and analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data, including psychological inference, MR Physics, K Space, experimental design, pre-processing of fMRI data, as well as Generalized Linear Models (GLM’s). A book related to the class can be found here: https://leanpub.com/principlesoffmri.
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Principles of fMRI 1
This course is part of Neuroscience and Neuroimaging Specialization
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This week we will introduce fMRI, and talk about data acquisition and reconstruction.
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Reviewed on Sep 18, 2022
The information covered in this course provides a deep understanding of approaching a fMRI data. Instructors provide clear explanations throughout the course.
Reviewed on Apr 26, 2020
A very well structured course starting from the basics of fMRI. It is of great help in understanding what goes into fMRI analysis
Reviewed on Jan 15, 2019
Amazing course. More advanced than I thought it would be, which was excellent. Interested students should know that it has a lot of statistics in it.
Recommended if you're interested in Data Science
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