Introduction to Functional MRI Analysis for Human Neuroimaging

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Functional magnetic resonance imaging is a method of observing relationships between in-vivo neural activity and behavior. This method is a truly interdisciplinary feat combining engineering, physics, and biology, but is at times reduced in popular media as pretty brain pictures. In this course, students will learn the promises and limitations of fMRI methods and becomes educated consumers and skeptics of both popular and scientific literature. In addition, students will be able to see a demonstration of hands-on data analysis. The final project will be an oral presentation and a written study proposal to include a literature review, the design of an fMRI paradigm, and an analysis plan.