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This lesson introduces some practical exercises which accompany the Synapses and Networks portion of this Neuroscience for Machine Learners course. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 3:51
Speaker: : Dan Goodman

In this lesson, you will learn about one particular aspect of decision making: reaction times. In other words, how long does it take to take a decision based on a stream of information arriving continuously over time?

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 6:01
Speaker: : Dan Goodman
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This book was written with the goal of introducing researchers and students in a variety of research fields to the intersection of data science and neuroimaging. This book reflects our own experience of doing research at the intersection of data science and neuroimaging and it is based on our experience working with students and collaborators who come from a variety of backgrounds and have a variety of reasons for wanting to use data science approaches in their work. The tools and ideas that we chose to write about are all tools and ideas that we have used in some way in our own research. Many of them are tools that we use on a daily basis in our work. This was important to us for a few reasons: the first is that we want to teach people things that we ourselves find useful. Second, it allowed us to write the book with a focus on solving specific analysis tasks. For example, in many of the chapters you will see that we walk you through ideas while implementing them in code, and with data. We believe that this is a good way to learn about data analysis, because it provides a connecting thread from scientific questions through the data and its representation to implementing specific answers to these questions. Finally, we find these ideas compelling and fruitful. That’s why we were drawn to them in the first place. We hope that our enthusiasm about the ideas and tools described in this book will be infectious enough to convince the readers of their value.

 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
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This Jupyter Book is a series of interactive tutorials about quantitative T1 mapping, powered by qMRLab. Most figures are generated with Plot.ly – you can play with them by hovering your mouse over the data, zooming in (click and drag) and out (double click), moving the sliders, and changing the drop-down options. To view the code that was used to generate the figures in this blog post, hover your cursor in the top left corner of the frame that contains the tutorial and click the checkbox “All cells” in the popup that appears.

Jupyter Lab notebooks of these tutorials are also available through MyBinder, and inline code modification inside the Jupyter Book is provided by Thebelab. For both options, you can modify the code, change the figures, and regenerate the html that was used to create the tutorial below. This Jupyter Book also uses a Script of Scripts (SoS) kernel, allowing us to process the data using qMRLab in MATLAB/Octave and plot the figures with Plot.ly using Python, all within the same Jupyter Notebook.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
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This tutorial demonstrates how to work with neuronal data using MATLAB, including actional potentials and spike counts, orientation tuing curves in visual cortex, and spatial maps of firing rates.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 5:17
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

This lesson instructs users on how to import electrophysiological neural data into MATLAB, as well as how to convert spikes to a data matrix.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 11:37
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

In this lesson, users will learn how to appropriately sort and bin neural spikes, allowing for the generation of a common and powerful visualization tool in neuroscience, the histogram. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 5:31
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

Followers of this lesson will learn how to compute, visualize and quantify the tuning curves of individual neurons. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 13:48
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

This lesson demonstrates how to programmatically generate a spatial map of neuronal spike counts using MATLAB.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 12:16
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

In this lesson, users are shown how to create a spatial map of neuronal orientation tuning. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 13:11
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

This lecture introduces neuroscience concepts and methods such as fMRI, visual respones in BOLD data, and the eccentricity of visual receptive fields. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 7:15
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

This tutorial walks users through the creation and visualization of activation flat maps from fMRI datasets. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 12:15
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

This tutorial demonstrates to users the conventional preprocessing steps when working with BOLD signal datasets from fMRI. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 12:05
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

In this tutorial, users will learn how to create a trial-averaged BOLD response and store it in a matrix in MATLAB. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 20:12
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

This tutorial teaches users how to create animations of BOLD responses over time, to allow researchers and clinicians to visualize time-course activity patterns.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 12:52
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

This tutorial demonstrates how to use MATLAB to create event-related BOLD time courses from fMRI datasets. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 13:39
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

In this tutorial, users learn how to compute and visualize a t-test on experimental condition differences.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 17:54
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

This lesson introduces various methods in MATLAB useful for dealing with data generated by calcium imaging. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 5:02
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

This tutorial demonstrates how to use MATLAB to generate and visualize animations of calcium fluctuations over time. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 15:01
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen

This tutorial instructs users how to use MATLAB to programmatically convert data from cells to a matrix.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 5:15
Speaker: : Mike X. Cohen