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Timeless Pieces
You and Your Research
Richard Hamming

Undergraduate Research 
College - What I did right and where I screwed up?
DJ Strouse

Applying to Grad School

Get into grad school for science, engineering, math and computer science
Matt Might

How to get a great letter of recommendation
Matt Might

Guide to Applying to US Science PhD Programs and Fellowships
DJ Strouse

Choosing a Lab and Applying Successfully
Maya Schuldiner

Succeeding in Grad School
How to Succeed in Graduate School: A Guide for Students and Advisors? 
Marie desJardins

How to Choose a Good Scientific Problem
Uri Alon

After Graduate School
YoungPIForum, Weizmann Institute of Science
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FSL Tips

Automatic Atlas Query

If you need a table with the coordinates and atlas labels of clusters in a nifti map, check out this script written by Brainder. In his words, any information that is not shared is lost, so I hope he doesn't mind me sharing his script here.

Colorbars

To make colorbars for your figures when using fslview, navigate to: /usr/local/fsl/etc/luts (or wherever you save your FSL directory), and find colorbar.nii.gz. Open that file in fslview and you can change the colors to the ones matching your figure. Then screenshot the image.

fslorient2std
Very often, the files you obtained from the scanner are oriented in a weird way, and are incompatible with the MNI152 Standard Template Image used in registration. Use this command to reorient the image so that they appear the "same way round" in FSLVIEW (note, your original images do have to have the correct header information)

Face Stimuli

Thinking of running a psychology/neuroscience study with faces as stimuli? Here are some face databases:

NimStim Set: http://www.macbrain.org/resources.htm
* Hmm, I find the photos a little weirdly cropped. The hair looks really strange.
* If you find the faces strange, it usually helps to morph several faces together (e.g., using Fantamorph).

Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces (KDEF): http://www.emotionlab.se/resources/kdef

Chicago Face Database:
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/bernd.wittenbrink/cfd/index.html

• 158 photographs of Black and White individuals. Targets are represented with the following expressions:
• neutral
• angry
• happy (with open mouth)
• happy (with closed mouth)
• fearful