ynic-users February 2008

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[Fwd: [SPM] UCLA Advanced Neuroimaging Summer School]
by Gary Green 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

FYI We are now accepting applications for the 2008 UCLA Advanced Neuroimaging Summer School, to be help July 14-25, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA. For more information and to apply for the course, please visit: http://www.poldracklab.org/nitp2008 Cheers, Russ --- Russell A. Poldrack, Ph.d. Associate Professor Wendell Jeffrey and Bernice Wenzel Term Chair in Behavioral Neuroscience UCLA Department of Psychology Franz Hall, Box 951563 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563 phone: 310-794-1224 fax: 310-206-5895 email: poldrack(a)ucla.edu web: www.poldracklab.org

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YNiC ASC - March 19th - Auditory fMRI
by Michael Simpson 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Dear all, this is just a quick mailing to advertise a YNiC ASC on March 19th. It will be on the subject of Auditory fMRI, and will be chaired by Quentin Summerfield. Should you want to contribute anything to the agenda, please email Quentin in advance <aqs1(a)york.ac.uk>. Otherwise, simply come along and join in the discussion. As before, a short digest of the YNiC ASC will be emailed to ynic-users a few days after the session. Nearer the time, Quentin will forward an agenda (i.e. once it has been established). And as before, the session will take place in Psychology B020, at 4pm. Thanks, Michael -- Dr Michael Simpson Science Liaison Officer York Neuroimaging Centre Innovation Way York YO10 5DG Tel: 01904 567614 Web: http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk

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Thursday Seminar
by Sam Johnson 27 Feb '08

27 Feb '08

Hello all, Just a reminder and a little more information about this Thursday's Seminar at YNiC. Mark has prepared an introduction to Unix that I will do my very best to translate into something we mere mortals can understand. This week we'll be covering some of the generic basics, including the permissions problem I know has been an issue of late. There'll also be information on some simple command line tools and the basics of scripting. Next week we'll be looking at YNiC specific information, including some useful hints and tips that will hopefully help to save you time and blood pressure. Thanks, Sam

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MEG at YNiC : current status
by Gary Green 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Dear colleagues I am sorry to have to announce that MEG is not working. We have had a problem since late last week with the Polhemus system which is needed for co-registration of the data with MRI. We thought we had fixed it over the weekend but it is now clear that we have to have a new unit flown in from San Diego. We will also need to get 4D engineers to attend to fix the problem as it is not simply one of replacing the unit. Unfortunately this means that MEG may be unavailable until the middle of next week. I know this is going to be a major inconvenience as MEG is currently very busy. As soon as it is working again we will let you know and will help you rebook or reorganise your time in MEG. We will almost certainly have to organise block booking so that several participants can be scanned one after the other to get through the backlog. The MEG system itself is working fine! Projects are stalled because of a piece of equipment that costs less than 1% of the original MEG cost. Sorry, Gary -- Gary Green Director York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park Innovation Way Heslington York YO10 5DG http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk tel. 01904 435349 fax 01904 435356 mobile 07986 778954

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[Fwd: [Eeglablist] FIAS Summer School Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems (2-24 August 2008, Frankfurt, Germany)]
by Gary Green 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

<apologies for multiple postings> Announcement and Call for Applications: The Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) is organizing a PENS-Blackwell Summer School on: Theoretical Neuroscience & Complex Systems Frankfurt, Germany, August 2-24, 2008 We invite applications for this three-week summer school from graduate students and post-docs in experimental and computational neuroscience and theoretical physics. Up to 30 students will be accepted. The school is supported by PENS - the Programme of European Neuroscience Schools, an IBRO-FENS collaboration. Application deadline: Monday, April 7. School: http://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/neuro_school/ Application: http://fens.mdc-berlin.de/pens/2008/schools/frankfurt/ Scientific Directors: W. Maass, C. von der Malsburg, G. Pipa, W. Singer, J. Triesch, M. Tsodyks Lecturers and Tutors Include: * Dana Ballard, UT Austin, USA * Emery Brown, Harvard/MIT, Cambridge, USA * Yang Dan, UC Berkeley, USA * Sophie Deneve, CNRS, France * Rodney Douglas, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain * Wulfram Gerstner, EPFL, Switzerland * Ann Graybiel, MIT, USA * Mary Hayhoe, UT Austin, USA * Jurgen Kurths, University of Potsdam, Germany, * Jorg Lucke, FIAS, Germany * Wolfgang Maass, Technische Universitat, Graz, Austria * Christoph von der Malsburg, FIAS, Germany * Sergio Neuenschwander, MPIH, Germany * Danko Nikolic, MPIH, Germany * Gordon Pipa, FIAS and MPIH, Germany * Austra Saudargiene, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania * Kerstin Schmidt, MPIH, Germany * Wolf Singer, MPIH, Germay * Olaf Sporns, Indiana University, USA * Jochen Triesch, FIAS, Germany * Peter Uhlhaas, MPIH, Germany * Raul Vicente, FIAS and MPIH, Germany * Cornelius Weber FIAS, Germany * Michael Wibral, MPIH, Germany * Kai Willadsen, FIAS, Germany * Junmei Zhu, FIAS, Germany Topics: mathematical and biological foundations of theoretical neuroscience; analysis of neural data; modelling of neurons and small networks; plasticity and learning; modelling higher cognitive functions, embodiment Format: - a 3-day pre-school to establish a common foundation and language - daily lectures by renowned international faculty - hands-on work on self-defined projects in interdisciplinary groups - round table discussions - a social and cultural program Registration Fees, Travel Expenses and Waivers: The school covers the expenses for accommodation and the cultural program. Students will have to pay a registration fee of 400 EURO. A small number of grants are available for students who need support for their travel expenses and a waiver for the registration fee. They are primarily intended for students from disadvantaged regions. If you consider applying for financial support, please indicate this in your application. We also need an estimate of your travel expenses (in EUROs). For further information, please contact: Neuro School Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1 60438 Frankfurt am Main Germany email: neuro_school(a)fias.uni-frankfurt.de tel: +49 69 798 47601 fax: +49 69 798 47611

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Msc project presentations
by Silvia Gennari 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

Hi, all, This is just a reminder that the second part of the Msc project presentations that have started last week will continue tomorrow Thursday at 4PM at YNiC. Everyone is welcome S Silvia Gennari Department of Psychology University of York York, YO10 5DD United Kingdom

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[Fwd: [Comp-neuro] Call for applications: PGCN 2008 Course on The Hippocampus and Navigation]
by Maribel Pulgarin 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

Dear All, Some may find this course interesting. Maribel -- ________________________________ Maribel Pulgarin MEG Manager York Neuroimaging Centre Innovation Way York YO10 5DG Tel: 01904 567614 Fax: 01904 435356 Web: http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk ----- Mensaje reenviado ---- De: Mate Lengyel <lmate(a)gatsby.ucl.ac.uk> Para: comp-neuro(a)neuroinf.org Enviado: miércoles, 13 de febrero, 2008 17:30:48 Asunto: [Comp-neuro] Call for applications: PGCN 2008 Course on The Hippocampus and Navigation Call for applications: The Hippocampus and Navigation 31 March - 4 April 2008 Champalimaud Foundation Neuroscience Program Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Oerias, Portugal This intensive, week-long course will explore one of the most intensively investigated and fascinating regions of the mammalian brain, the hippocampus. Leading researchers will provide background on classical and contemporary views of this structure, ranging from the microcircuit to the behavioral level. Topics of focus will include the anatomy and physiology of the hippocampal formation, navigation and spatial processing, neural maps and memory, and cortico-hippocampal replay of neural activity. The integration of experimental and theoretical/computational approaches will be emphasized. Tutorials and seminars will be complemented by debates, focus lectures and discussions. A final symposium will address the future of hippocampal research. A list of instructors is below; full schedule information is available at http://pgcn.igc.gulbenkian.pt/doku.php/pgcn:course:navigation_hippocampus:s…. Up to 10 places available for students for this course. Applications are especially encouraged from doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows with some general background in neuroscience. There will be no tuition charge but students will be expected to pay their own travel, board and accommodation. The course runs as part of the Gulbenkian-Champalimaud Neuroscience Program (PGCN), an PhD program in the biological bases of behavior. Logistical assistance for local accommodation will be provided. Further logistical information is available at the course web site. Applications should be sent to Miguel Remondes (remondes(a)MIT.EDU <mailto:remondes@MIT.EDU>) and include a CV, names and email of 2 references, and a short statement of interest (max 500 words). Application deadline is 24 February, 2008. Course organizers: Miguel Remondes (MIT) Mate Lengyel (U Cambridge) Program director: Zach Mainen (CFNP, IGC) Course instructors: Francesco Battaglia (U Amsterdam) Sue Becker (McMaster U) Verner Bingman (BGSU) Neil Burgess (UCL) József Csicsvári (U Oxford) Anthony Dickinson (U Cambridge) Howard Eichenbaum (BU) Fred Gage (Salk I) Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL) Mike Hasselmo (BU) Stefan Leutgeb (Trondheim) Ole Paulsen (U Oxford) Cosme Salas (U Sevilla) Wendy Suzuki (NYU) Alessandro Treves (SISSA) Nachum Ulanovsky (Weizmann I) Matt Wilson (MIT) Menno Witter (Trondheim) Sponsored by: Champalimaud Foundation Gulbenkian Foundation -- Mate Lengyel, PhD Computational and Biological Learning Lab Cambridge University Engineering Department Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK tel +44 (0)1223 748 532, fax +44 (0)1223 332 662 lmate(a)gatsby.ucl.ac.uk <mailto:lmate@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk>, gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~lmate _______________________________________________ Comp-neuro mailing list Comp-neuro(a)neuroinf.org <mailto:Comp-neuro@neuroinf.org> http://www.neuroinf.org/mailman/listinfo/comp-neuro

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YNiC ASC session on Virtual Electrode Analyses in MEG
by Andy Ellis 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

Dear All NOTES ON THE YNIC ANALYSIS SUPPORT COLLOQUIUM ON VIRTUAL ELECTRODE ANALYSES IN MEG, WEDNESDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2008. The current YNiC MEG tools allow us to create beautiful and defensible images showing how the brain's responses to stimuli evolve over time. But beamforming requires the comparison of active windows with passive windows, and the use of active windows less that 200 ms long is not recommended. So while moving windows convey a good initial impression of the progression of neural events, they do not take full advantage of MEG's potential for looking at the detailed timing of those events. There is another issue with beamformed brain maps, which is that it is not easy to compare results across conditions. You can point out that there is a significant response in a particular brain region in one condition of an experiment but not in another, but it could be that the response just makes it over the threshold in one condition and just falls below threshold in the other. The absolute difference in the magnitude of the two responses (or, to be accurate, the magnitude of the difference between the two active and passive conditions) may be small. Virtual electrodes offer the potential for asking intelligent questions about the strength and time course of events at specific points in the brain, allowing direct comparisons between conditions and making better use of the temporal resolution of MEG. Piers Cornelissen presented the results of some virtual electrode analyses he and his colleagues have done, comparing responses to different types of stimuli at different regions of interest in the brain. Piers showed results in the form of time-frequency histograms ('Stockwell plots'), separating out evoked and induced components of the total response; also event-related frequency (ERF) plots showing changes in the amplitude of evoked responses over time. He also discussed techniques that he and his colleagues have used for making statistical comparisons across conditions in both types of analysis. A lengthy and gripping discussion ranged over: 1. The best method to identify regions of interest, 2. How best, having identified a point of interest in a standardised brain, to identify the corresponding points in individual participant brains, and 3. What issues are involved in doing individual and group level analyses, and what would be the best analyses to adopt within YNiC, at least as interim solutions that will allow research groups to make progress with these techniques. Doing virtual electrode analyses at a group level is a complex business but has strong appeal to a number of researchers. Piers has a working solution which he and Uzma will document and make available. In complement to this documentation, YNiC will document the assumptions and issues associated with Virtual Electrode Analysis at the group level. It was also clear in the discussion that connectivity measures applied to Virtual Electrode analysis are going to be important to understanding more about the signals recorded in MEG, and more about how functional interactions involving different regions in the brain evolve over time. Deep thought will be given to this topic within YNiC. Ideas for future fora are welcomed. Andy Ellis and Michael Simpson -- Professor Andy Ellis Department of Psychology University of York York YO10 5DD England Tel. +44 (0)1904 433140 http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/people/biogs/awe1.html

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Last nights YNiC ASC session.
by Michael Simpson 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

Dear all, just to say thanks to Andy and Piers for chairing last nights YNiC ASC session; a digest of which will be forwarded to the User list in due course. Given that we gave everyone the option to leave at 5pm, but everyone stayed until 5.30, I'll interpret it to have been and success! It was good that it generated so much discussion. On which note, would anyone like to volunteer to chair the next YNiC ASC session? If so, send an email to the ynic-users stating the topic for discussion, and the date on which you would like to hold the session. I look forward to hearing from you all ... thanks, Michael -- Dr Michael Simpson Science Liaison Officer York Neuroimaging Centre Innovation Way York YO10 5DG Tel: 01904 567614 Web: http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk

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master students presentations
by Silvia Gennari 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hi, all, This is just a reminder that tomorrow (Thursday) at 4PM, MSC students will be giving presentations at YNiC. Everyone is welcome Silvia Gennari Department of Psychology University of York York, YO10 5DD United Kingdom

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