"...the single most critical piece of equipment is still the researcher's own brain. All the equipment in the world will not help us if we do not know how to use it properly, which requires more than just knowing how to operate it. Aristotle would not necessarily have been more profound had he owned a laptop and known how to program. What is badly needed now, with all these scanners whirring away, is an understanding of exactly what we are observing, and seeing, and measuring, and wondering about." -Endel Tulving, interview in Cognitive Neuroscience (2002, Gazzaniga , Ivry & Mangun, Eds., NY: Norton, p. 323)

News

• December 2008 Slides from the fMRI course in Louvain, Belgium have been posted in the tutorials section.
• August 2007Our Brain Voyager QX Preprocessing tutorial has now been updated for use with Brain Voyager 1.9. This tutorial covers a wide range of preprocessing steps, including AMR, VMR, VTC creation, co-registration, motion correction, and much more... It is a good resource for any one who is new to using Brain Voyager.
• June 2007 We are in the process of creating a new fMRI4Newbies with a shortcut URL of http://www.fmri4newbies.com. Please email Charlie for any problems/suggestions regarding the site's layout and functionality.
• December 2006 There is additional fMRI material on our fMRI Discussion Group web site.
• July 2006 Speak Spanish? Check out fMRI para Novatos by Juan Fernandez-Ruiz at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
• July 2006 I have posted some slides from a youth outreach demo on vision and brain. It includes a fun illustration of how you can use fMRI to "read somebody's mind" (based on O'Craven & Kanwisher, 2000, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience). The kids seemed to like it.