The purpose of these is to present the design of your experiment and get feedback from the community in advance of scanning.

Presentations are strictly limited to 5 minutes. As a result, there are a maximum of 5 slides: one title slide and four content slides. We recommend skipping all background information except the question you’re investigating. Focus your limited time on the design of the experiment instead.

The final slide should list your hypotheses. For largely exploratory studies it should at least describe the expected results in broad terms. Exploration is important for science, but the experimental design should be adequate for producing useful evidence.

Please include information about (i) the groups being tested, (ii) the conditions, (iii) the baseline(s), (iv) the number of runs, (v) the timing of blocks/events, (vi) the stimuli, etc. In short, everything needed to evaluate the fMRI design.