====== Retinotopy tutorial ======

**Place**: BSI East Building 1F Seminar Room\\
**Time**: June 8th and 9th, 4:00-5:00 PM\\
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The purpose of this tutorial is to teach you how to identify visual areas in your subjects using a standard traveling-wave retinotopic mapping experiment. The tutorial will focus on the use of [[mrTools:overview|mrTools]], a matlab based analysis tool.
===== Day 1: Review of retinotopy literature =====
  * Review of visual field maps in the human
  * Controversies (e.g. different proposals for human V4)
  * Overview of recent literature covering new proposed maps (i.e. IPS areas, lateral occipital areas, ventral occipital areas)
  * Techniques for measuring visual fields with fMRI (traveling wave stimuli, population receptive fields)

**Reading material**: {{:grupub:wandell.pdf|Wandell et al., (2007) Neuron 56:366-383}}

**Slides**: [[http://gru.brain.riken.jp/pub/retinotopy/ret1.html]]\\
{{:grupub:ret1.pdf|pdf}}

===== Day 2: Retinotopy using mrTools ====

  * Coordinate transformations and alignment using nifti
  * Surfaces and flat maps
  * Overview of retinotopy analysis using mrTools (Heeger/Gardner Matlab based analysis tools)

**Reading material**: [[mrTools:overview|mrTools manual]]

**Slides**: [[http://gru.brain.riken.jp/pub/retinotopy/ret2.html]]\\
{{:grupub:ret2.pdf|pdf}}

Especially, the sections: [[mrTools:coordinateTransforms|Coordinate Transforms]] and [[mrTools:surfacesAndFlatMaps|Surfaces and Flat Maps]] and the two tutorials: [[mrTools:tutorialsRetinotopy|Retinotopy]] and [[mrTools:tutorialsSurfacesAndFlatMaps|Surfaces and Flat Maps]].