The following topics will be covered during the Fall 2009 semester:
[Note: Upcoming week's readings now in GREEN type]


Topic #1 – Partial-trial designs.
Date: 9/3/09

Reading:
-Ruge et al. (2009), Separating event-related BOLD components within trials: The partial-trial design revisited, NeuroImage. -> link


Topic #2 – Forward inference in fMRI.
Dates: 9/17/09 & 9/24/09

Week 1 readings:
-Henson (2006). Forward inference using functional neuroimaging: dissociations versus associations, TICS. -> link
-Willingham & Dunn (2003). What neuroimaging and brain localization can do, cannot do and should not do for social psychology. J. Pers. Soc. Psych. -> link


Topic #3 – Causal Modeling in fMRI.
Dates: 10/15/09

Week 1 readings:
-Friston K (2009) Causal modelling and brain connectivity in functional
magnetic resonance imaging. PLoS Biol 7(2)
-> link


Topic #4 – Smoothing effects on MVPC.
Date: 10/22/09

Week 1 readings:
-Op de Beeck NeuroImage 2009. -> link
-Kamitani & Sawahata NeuroImage In Press -> link


Topic #5 – Multivariate Searchlight Analysis.
Date: 11/12/09

Week 1 readings:
-Kriegeskorte N, Goebel R, Bandettini P. (2006) Information-based functional brain mapping. PNAS;103(10):3863-8. -> link


Topic #6 – MVPC vs. fMRI-A.
Date: 11/19/09

Week 1 readings:
-Sapountzis et al., 2009. -> link