This page contains links to some helpful SPM resources. If you are aware of any links or documents that could be added, please email them to Terry Oakes (oakes@psyphw.psych.wisc.edu).
External Links:
SPM Central is the primary web resource and home of SPM. If you use SPM much (like, more than once) consider joining the SPM email spewer to keep abreast of recent changes and SPM-related issues. The SPM99 Course Notes at this site are particularly helpful, and provide a moderately in-depth but still readable explanation of the theory behind SPM99.
The MRC-CBU home page contains a wealth of information. The "Site Contents" section has SPM-specific hints, help, and demos. In particular, Matthew Brett has written some very cogent summaries of SPM; look under "Introduction to SPM statistics" and "Introduction to random field theory".
A batch analysis primer by Russ Poldrack from MGH/Harvard. Russ also has a few other potentially helpful documents in the parent directory of the batch analysis primer.
A summary of Random Effects Analysis by Darren Gittelman from Northwestern, with discussions from the SPM-spewer and some references. Also, Eric Zarahn has some interesting online notes.
Various snippets of SPM-related code, compiled by Tom Nichols.
Lab for Affective Neuroscience and other local resources:
The LfAN's Introduction to SPM99 is available online as an Adobe pdf file. Please send any corrections or suggestions to Terry Oakes.
A primer for fMRI analysis (Adobe .pdf) of a single subject with a simple on/off activation is available. This is actually a modification of the step-by-step guide, together with a real data set, provided by the FIL group (authors of SPM). The primer has been modified to make it specific for the LfAN, so that you can follow the primer as you step through the analysis on your own. This is probably the best way to learn how to perform an analysis- by doing it! However, since the analysis has already been run through once, you can also skip the actual processing steps (some of which take an hour or more) and concentrate on the results and analysis.
Hyper-text compilation of useful questions/responses from questions posted to the SPM user's email burster. One of the sections summarizes some of the more theoretical responses.
Recipe for using SPM's Slice Timing Correction at the LfAN, with an example of the results you can expect.
Random Effects Analysis discussion.
Matt Budde has some nice tips on batch-mode usage.
Some selected papers, mostly in PDF format:
(alright, we're working on this section- one paper is indeed less than "some")