Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
About the speaker
Dr Matt Wall completed his PhD in Cambridge, then did post-doctoral positions at Royal Holloway and UCL before selling out and moving into the private sector. He currently works for Invicro, a global imaging company that provides research services for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. His research interests have meandered around somewhat, taking in cognitive psychology, visual psychophysics, pain, psychopharmacology, psychedelics, addiction, neuroendocrinology, and methods development, but all focussed around the use of fMRI. His current collaborative projects involve giving teenagers cannabis and showing women pornography, as well as a number of commercial studies, and ongoing methodological work.
About the talk
Resting-state fMRI (RS-fMRI) is a powerful and popular method for examining brain function and is widely used in examining mental disorders, pharmacological agents, and many other types of studies. Resting-state data is a potentially rich source of information and the analysis techniques used can be extremely varied and flexible. In this session I'll go through some theory and background about RS-fMRI and then do a demonstration of two popular analysis methods: seed-based functional connectivity and Independent Components Analysis (ICA), using FSL.
About the RIOT Science Club
The RIOT Science Club gives talks/workshops on Reproducible, Interpretable, Open & Transparent Science.
Slides and/or recordings of all past and future RIOTS Clubs are stored on our Open Science Framework Page: osf.io/8y7h2/.
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If you would like to give a talk or workshop for The RIOTS Club, please email riotscienceclub@kcl.ac.uk.
About the speaker
Dr Matt Wall completed his PhD in Cambridge, then did post-doctoral positions at Royal Holloway and UCL before selling out and moving into the private sector. He currently works for Invicro, a global imaging company that provides research services for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. His research interests have meandered around somewhat, taking in cognitive psychology, visual psychophysics, pain, psychopharmacology, psychedelics, addiction, neuroendocrinology, and methods development, but all focussed around the use of fMRI. His current collaborative projects involve giving teenagers cannabis and showing women pornography, as well as a number of commercial studies, and ongoing methodological work.
About the talk
Resting-state fMRI (RS-fMRI) is a powerful and popular method for examining brain function and is widely used in examining mental disorders, pharmacological agents, and many other types of studies. Resting-state data is a potentially rich source of information and the analysis techniques used can be extremely varied and flexible. In this session I'll go through some theory and background about RS-fMRI and then do a demonstration of two popular analysis methods: seed-based functional connectivity and Independent Components Analysis (ICA), using FSL.
About the RIOT Science Club
The RIOT Science Club gives talks/workshops on Reproducible, Interpretable, Open & Transparent Science.
Slides and/or recordings of all past and future RIOTS Clubs are stored on our Open Science Framework Page: osf.io/8y7h2/.
You can also subscribe to our mailing list, to receive regular information on upcoming talks and workshops, any local events and vacancies for positions in open and reproducible research.
You can also find us on Twitter @riotscienceclub.
If you would like to give a talk or workshop for The RIOTS Club, please email riotscienceclub@kcl.ac.uk.
