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Scottish Radiological Society Spring Meeting 2021 May 14, 2021 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM — Virtual Meeting (online)
9th Annual Scottish Radiotherapy Research Forum Jun 03, 2021 12:30 PM - 05:00 PM — Virtual Meeting (online)
Medical Imaging Convention [rescheduled] Sep 15, 2021 - Sep 16, 2021 — National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, England
Total Body PET 2021 conference [rescheduled] Sep 25, 2021 - Sep 27, 2021 — McEwan Hall, University of Edinburgh
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eLearning

SINAPSE experts from around Scotland have developed ten online modules designed to explain medical imaging. They are freely available and are intended for non-specialists.

SINAPSE eLearning website

Edinburgh Imaging Academy at the University of Edinburgh offers the following online programmes through a virtual learning environment:

Neuroimaging for Research MSc/Dip/Cert

Imaging MSc/Dip/Cert

PET-MR Principles & Applications Cert

Applied Medical Image Analysis Cert

Online Short Courses

Past Events

2020 ASM: Virtual Meeting Summary and presentations

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Dr Akira O'Connor

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Position: SINAPSE Lecturer in Neuroimaging

Interests:

I am interested in how contextual information and our expectations help and hinder the judgements we make about our memories. My research employs both cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience methods (primarily fMRI and fcMRI).

Institute: University of St Andrews

Department: School of Psychology and Neuroscience


Research Themes

Recognition memory, decision-making, expectations, bias.
Key Publications

see my St Andrews Research Portal page

Software Expertise

Experimental design: Matlab, Psychophysics Toolbox, Javascript, E-Prime, Superlab.

Imaging Analysis: SPM, Marsbar, MRIcron, Caret.

Maths/Statistics: Matlab, Statistica, SPSS, Excel.