Retinotopy tutorial

Place: BSI East Building 1F Seminar Room
Time: June 8th and 9th, 4:00-5:00 PM

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, a matlab based analysis tool.

• 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: Wandell et al., (2007) Neuron 56:366-383

Slides: http://gru.brain.riken.jp/pub/retinotopy/ret1.html
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• 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 manual

Slides: http://gru.brain.riken.jp/pub/retinotopy/ret2.html
pdf

Especially, the sections: Coordinate Transforms and Surfaces and Flat Maps and the two tutorials: Retinotopy and Surfaces and Flat Maps.