NEUR118 PO - Neuroimaging with fMRI

When Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered spring 2025.
Instructor(s): S, Burns
Credit: 1

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is one of the most common research methods for studying the human brain. This course and the accompanying lab will provide an introduction to how the method works, how to analyze datasets collected with fMRI, and what questions about the brain we can answer with it. It will cover six main topics: fundamentals of the technology, fMRI research design, using code to interact with fMRI data, preprocessing data, traditional analysis approaches, and more modern methods for answering hypotheses with fMRI data.

Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 4