We are pleased to announce that the SPM for MEG/EEG course hosted by University College London will take place from Monday, May 18th to Thursday, May 21st, 2026!
Registration is now open via the UCL Online Store:
This is a new method so please try it out and let us know if you run into any difficulties! Text at arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 , SPM toolbox and example at github.com/pzeidman/vRS... . Congrats to Alex Lepauvre for this excellent work! [4/4]
vRSA for M/EEG has advantages: 1) Bayesian model comparison for testing hypotheses, e.g. presence vs absence of effects at specific peri-stimulus times. 2) Handles full factorial designs with interactions. 3) Computationally efficient, no cross-validation. 4) Group analysis with covariates. [3/4]
RSA has proven popular in neuroimaging, for testing whether the (dis-)similarity of stimuli or conditions are encoded in the brain. But it has drawbacks. In particular, it's typically not backed by a formal statistical model that separates signal from noise, or handles factorial designs. [2/4]
A figure with 3 panels. Top: A plot of log-evidence for an experimental effect over peristimulus time, as inferred using vRSA. Bottom-left: a condition-by-condition matrix of regression parameters. Bottom-right: condition-by-condition matrix estimated by the vRSA model.
Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]
Looks brilliant, congratulations!!!
🗞️ Front page news of The Express today: @uclqsion.bsky.social scientists have developed a method for producing “ultra-fast” MRI scans, slashing the time patients need to spend in the machine from 20-30 minutes to less than 7 minutes. @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social
It was such a pleasure to chat to Andy Jahn (of Andy's Brain Book fame) about SPM25, together with Olivia Kowalczyk (@liviasimela.bsky.social) and Johan Medrano (@johmedr.bsky.social) from the SPM team
I am delighted to welcome Josie Linnell @jlinnell.bsky.social as a new PhD student in the Neurovascular Modelling Group at the FIL! Josie will investigate the earliest stages of Alzheimer's using fMRI, together with Natalie Ryan's team at the UCL Dementia Research Centre @uclqsion.bsky.social
"The journal offers a magnificent fireworks display of reflections on the past, present and future of SPM. Yet, the debate extends far beyond SPM. It touches on crucial issues such as how to interpret the growing body of neuroimaging data and explain it in a biologically plausible way" - Ed. [2/2]
A birthday is a good time to reflect! To mark SPM @ 30, this month's issue of Cerebral Cortex features deeply insightful commentaries on neuroimaging analysis from Ed Bullmore, Peter Bandettini, Peter Fox, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Klaas Enno Stephan, Viktor Jirsa, et al [1/2] academic.oup.com/cercor/issue
* Keen observers of neuroimaging history will note that we've marked 30 years rather arbitrarily, from around the time the code was re-written in 1994, which introduced SPM as we know it today. But as Prof Bullmore points out in his commentary, SPM is a few years older than that!
We're marking 30 years* of SPM this year, a milestone we share with the journal Cerebral Cortex! Just out:
A very nice commentary on SPM's impact by Ed Bullmore - doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
...accompanying a review by SPM's devs on what went well and what could be done better doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
Congratulations Mona, very well deserved!
Many congrats Nadine and Steve! This looks very elegant indeed!
Thanks so much Rimona! Really nice you were there!
And huge thanks to James Bonaiuto of @danclab.bsky.social - their fantastic laminar MEG toolbox laMEG paved the way to SPM-Python! github.com/danclab/laMEG
The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025
Don't miss our upcoming #SPM course for #EEG & #MEG online from 19-22 May 2025! 🧠
We'll cover preprocessing, source reconstruction, DCM & OPM analyses. Practicals will include SPM-Python!
Programme: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/docs/cou...
Register by May 11th 👇 onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...
🎺🎺🎺 We will be hosting #MEGUKI2025 this July and hope that lots of you will be able to join us, including for the kick off day focusing on #naturalistic neuroscience.
More details and info on how to submit abstracts below 👇
Excited to share a new PhD studentship, using fMRI and MEG to detect early changes in Alzheimer's disease, fully funded for a UK student by @alzheimersresearchuk.org . Situated at UCL in Queen Square, London. Join us! tinyurl.com/nvmgroupphd
Don't miss out on securing your spot for our upcoming #SPM course for #fMRI and #MRI/#VBM!
Join us in London 23-25 April! Reserve your place now! 🧠⬇️
onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...
Brilliant work from the FIL OPM-MEG team!
We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging
Brilliant! haha not at all, it's a badge of honour! 🤓🔬
Sounds like we have a winner!
Coming soon!
Can we find the earliest adopters of SPM on Bluesky? Full marks to @jonsimons.bsky.social for SPM96!
Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰
To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.
Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...
I am so grateful to Eleanor Maguire for being such an amazing teacher and mentor. We have set up a web page for sharing memories of Eleanor, via the link below.
