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fmri-for-beginners

A course designed for anyone entering the field of fMRI-based cognitive neuroscience. It covers both the theory behind how we analyze the data and technical skills/knowledge to apply right away. This course is designed for those who are new to the field, but contains useful resources for all skill levels.

Useful Coding Skills

While it is not a necessity to know a ton about coding, it is very helpful. Not only that, but it helps make your work more reproducible. It also doesn’t hurt that this skillset translates to many other studies/lines of work.

R

R is made for statistics and was designed to be used by people with little/no coding experience(although it does not always feel that way). It is probably the most commonly used language in the field and is essential to know to do many statistical analyses.

Python

Like every job, you do not need to know python, but also like every other job it can make your life a lot easier. Python can be very useful for statistics, data manipulation, data analyses, and even plotting brain data.

MATLAB

Only learn about this if your school gives you a license, otherwise it is not worth the money when there are free resources that are equal if not better. If your school does provide a license, in my opinion, this is the easiest to learn for someone with no experience coding since it is the most like spoken English. It also has many useful tools for everything like Python does. There are also many GUI-based programs that rely on MATLAB. When doing this, you will most likely end up scripting your data which is where it is very helpful to have some MATLAB knowledge.


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