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Project mentors

Each group of students in this class will be doing a significant project analyzing FMRI data.

See Projects for the student instructions.

As a mentor, you will be helping the students to design a project, and propose it in the class.

When we’ve agreed on the project, you will be the first point of call for advice on the neuroscience and the analysis.

We want you to make yourself available for at least one hour per week to meet with the students, during the semester. You’ll need to budget a couple of hours for reviewing and commenting on the students work as it develops on the web, using github.com.

Please see the Examples of projects from a previous class to get an idea of the kind of work we are expecting.

Later on, I am sure your students will be asking for more time and help, as the project deadlines come nearer – see the project Timing for the relevant dates.

Some of these projects may turn into papers. Of course we are expecting that you will be an author on these papers, with the order to be negotiated by you all, but our default will be to assume that you, the mentors, will be the senior author on the paper unless you agree otherwise, or there’s a good reason to do otherwise.

We Instructors are always happy to hear from you, and answer any of your questions, and pitch in to discussions with students.

We know this will be a significant amount of work for you, and as a thank you, we will buy you a textbook of your choice at the end of the course.