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
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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
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
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
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
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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
<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
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
Dear All,
Some may find this course interesting.
Maribel
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________________________________
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
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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
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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
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
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