Day 1 (Monday)
Morning (8:45-12:00)
- 8:45-9:15: Registration and welcome
- 9:15-9:30: Opening words and introduction (Lucía)
- 9:30-10:35: Information Theory (Rubén, Marilyn)
- Fundamentals of information theory.
- Introduction to high-order interactions.
- 10:35-10:55: 20-minute coffee break
- 10:55-12:00: Examples of applications of high-order functional connectivity (Rubén, Marilyn)
- General overview of the field.
- Aging and neurodegeneration.
- Psychedelics and consciousness.
- Transcranial ultrasound stimulation.
Lunch (12:00-13:00)
Afternoon (13:00-16:00)
- 13:00-13:30: Setting up programming environment
- 13:30-14:40: Tutorial I: information theory applied to fMRI and/or M/EEG data (Rubén, Marilyn)
- 14:40-15:00: 20-minute coffee break
- 15:00-16:00: Basics of whole-brain modeling Part I (Carlos)
- Why use mathematical models in neuroscience?
- Different scales of modeling: neuron-level, neural masses, and whole-brain.
- Neural mass models: Wilson-Cowan and Jansen & Rit.
- Basic elements of whole-brain models and model fitting.
Evening (16:30-21:30) - Participation Optional
- 16:30-18:30: Late afternoon networking and opportunities for cross-site collaborations.
- 20:30-21:30: Brain teasers: Computational approaches to consciousness.
Day 2 (Tuesday)
Morning (9:00-12:30)
- 9:00-9:50: Basics of connectivity analyses Part I (Ryszard)
- Types of connectivity (structural, functional, effective).
- Model-free and model-based connectivity measures.
- Modeling dynamics of brain activity through differential equations.
- Dynamic causal modeling for fMRI data.
- 9:50-10:10: 20-minute break
- 10:10-11:00: Basics of connectivity analyses Part II (Ryszard)
- Dynamic causal modeling for M/EEG data.
- Model comparison.
- Group analyses.
- Real examples of modeling.
- 11:00-12:00: Tutorial III: DCM for fMRI and/or M/EEG, depending on participants’ interests (Ryszard)
Lunch (12:00-13:00)
Afternoon (13:00-16:15)
- 13:00-13:30: Space for open questions
- 13:30-14:30: Examples of whole-brain modeling (Carlos)
- Aging and neurodegeneration.
- Brain clocks.
- 14:30-14:50: 20-minute coffee break
- 14:50-15:50: Tutorial III: Example of whole-brain modeling and fitting (Ryszard)
- 15:50-16:00: Closure words (Lucía)
