The fMRI user meeting is a biweekly open discussion round for neuroimaging users at the University of Oldenburg. It brings together researchers at different levels of experience, ranging form beginning PhD students to faculty from different departments as well as staff of the neuroimaging center. Our goal is to facilitate interaction between fMRI users from different groups, and to share existing knowledge regarding fMRI data acquisition and analysis.

Typically, all meetings are dedicated to a changing main topic. Participants can present their own fMRI study and ask for feedback and help regarding their experimental design and their data analysis approach. In other weeks, we discuss current methodological developments in the field of MRI data acquisition and analysis based on current original literature.

Objective of module/competences: By attending the fMRI user meeting, students will gain advanced knowledge on designing fMRI experiments, fMRI data acquisition and data analysis approaches, and statistics. By presenting their own research projects to the group, they can receive suggestions and feedback on how to improve/refine the study design and the planned analysis to gain robust and interpretable results.

Application formalities: provisional registration on Stud.IP (waiting list), contact lecturers for admission
Criteria for admission: PhD project involves working with neuroimaging data
Kind of examination: active participation in seminar, presentation of own research project

Fields:
Neurocognitive psychology
Neuroscience
Human Medicine

OLTECH doctoral programmes:
Neurosensory Science and Systems, Medicine and Health Sciences