Dear Users
This week I will give a talk based on an article that is currently "in
press" in NeuroImage. The article is about using magnetoencephalography
to investigate the spatiotemporal representation of changes in pitch
over time (frequency modulation).
YNiC seminars take place from 4-5 pm in YNiC open plan.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
Citation: Rebecca E. Millman, Garreth Prendergast, Padriag T. Kitterick,
Will P. Woods and Gary G. R. Green. (2010). Spatiotemporal
reconstruction of the auditory steady-state response to frequency
modulation using magnetoencephalography. NeuroImage 49, 745-758.
Abstract:
The aim of this study was to investigate the mechanisms involved in the
perception of perceptually salient frequency modulation (FM) using
auditory steady-state responses (ASSRs) measured with
magnetoencephalography (MEG). Previous MEG studies using
frequency-modulated amplitude modulation as stimuli (Luo et al., 2006,
2007) suggested that a phase modulation encoding mechanism exists for
low (< 5 Hz) FM modulation frequencies but additional amplitude
modulation encoding is required for faster FM modulation frequencies. In
this study single-cycle sinusoidal FM stimuli were used to generate the
ASSR. The stimulus was either an unmodulated 1-kHz sinusoid or a 1-kHz
sinusoid that was frequency-modulated with a repetition rate of 4, 8, or
12 Hz. The fast Fourier transform (FFT) of each MEG channel was
calculated to obtain the phase and magnitude of the ASSR in sensor-space
and multivariate Hotelling's /T/^2 statistics were used to determine the
statistical significance of ASSRs. MEG beamformer analyses were used to
localise the ASSR sources. Virtual electrode analyses were used to
reconstruct the time series at each source. FFTs of the virtual
electrode time series were calculated to obtain the amplitude and phase
characteristics of each source identified in the beamforming analyses.
Multivariate Hotelling's /T/^2 statistics were used to determine the
statistical significance of these reconstructed ASSRs. The results
suggest that the ability of auditory cortex to phase-lock to FM is
dependent on the FM pulse rate and that the ASSR to FM is lateralised to
the right hemisphere.
Dear Users
This afternoon (4-5 pm in YNiC open plan) there will be two project
proposal presentations:
1) Silke Goebel, Department of Psychology
"No brain for numbers? Parietal networks involved in number processing
and arithmetic in dyslexia/dyscalculia"
2) Eytan Zweig, Department of Language and Linguistic Science
"An MEG investigation of scalar implicature calculation"
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
Dear Users,
can I flag this up to the young, keen and eager researchers at YNiC.
It's a poster competition at the House of Commons, run by the
Parliamentary and Scientific Committee. I found it a very useful
experience a few years ago.
http://www.vmine.net/setforbritain/2010event.asp
Michael
Dear Users
This Thursday (4-5 pm in YNiC open plan) there will be two project
proposal presentations:
1) Silke Goebel, Department of Psychology
"No brain for numbers? Parietal networks involved in number processing
and arithmetic in dyslexia/dyscalculia"
2) Eytan Zweig, Department of Language and Linguistic Science
"An MEG investigation of scalar implicature calculation"
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
A post-doctoral opportunity that might be of interest to some.
Katerina
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Dr. Ekaterini Klepousniotou
Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuropsychology
Institute of Psychological Sciences
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK
Tel: +44 (0)113 3435716
Fax: +44 (0)113 3435749
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Date: Fri, November 20, 2009 2:10 pm
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UCL is currently advertising a *Research Associate post*.
The post is for a neuropsychologist or cognitive neuroscientist
interested in investigating the neural mechanisms of executive processes
in the prefrontal cortex.
Closing date: 7 December 2009, 5pm
Further details can be found on the BNS website:
http://www.the-bns.org/other_jobs.html
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Dear All,
The TMS equipment has now moved into the Stimulus Preparation Room, off the
open plan area. The door will be locked, but a key may be borrowed from
reception to gain access. Please lock the door and return the key when you
are finished.
Best wishes
Tony
Dear Users
The ECR forum have organised a "Families in Science" event from 2-5 pm
this Thursday that will be held in the Department of Psychology.
Therefore there will not be a YNiC seminar this week.
Best wishes
Rebecca
Apologies for cross postings..
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From: Lisa Schubert [mailto:lisa.schubert@hyms.ac.uk]
Sent: 12 November 2009 10:13
To: Lisa Schubert
Subject: University of York: Cell and Molecular Biology Lunch Club - Mon
16th November
If you would like to meet with Professor Miesenboeck during his visit,
please contact Sean Sweeney (sts1(a)york.ac.uk)
CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LUNCH CLUB
Monday 16th November 2009, 1.15pm
Room K018, Biology
Professor Geor Miesenboeck
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford
"The beginnings of optogenetics "
Abstract:
Light-sensitive proteins encoded in DNA can serve as selective optical
interfaces for observing and controlling genetically targeted neurons in
functioning circuits, in vitro and in vivo. Light-emitting sensors of
neuronal activity (reporting calcium increase, neurotransmitter release, or
membrane depolarization) have begun to reveal how information is represented
by neuronal assemblies, and how these representations are transformed during
the computations that inform behaviour. Light-driven actuators control the
electrical activity of central neurons in freely moving animals and
establish causal connections between the activities of specific neurons and
the expression of particular behaviours. The combination of finely resolved
optical field sensing and finely resolved optical field actuation is opening
new dimensions for the analysis of the connectivity, dynamics, and
plasticity of neuronal circuits, and perhaps even for replacing lost---or
designing novel---functionalities.
Host: Sean Sweeney (sts1(a)york.ac.uk)
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Department of Biology and Hull York Medical School
University of York
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York
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Tel: 01904 328845
Fax: 01904 328844
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Dear Users
4-5 pm in YNiC open plan.
Silvia Gennari will give a talk on "Effects of implied physical effort
in sensory-motor and pre-frontal cortex during language comprehension".
This talk will be based on the article by Claire Moody and Silvia
Gennari that is currently "in press" in NeuroImage.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
Article title: Effects of implied physical effort in sensory-motor and
pre-frontal cortex during language comprehension
Reference: YNIMG6471
Journal title: Neuroimage
Corresponding author: Dr. Silvia P. Gennari
First author: Dr. Claire L. Moody
Received at Elsevier: 27-JUL-2009
Final version published online: 17-OCT-2009
Full bibliographic details: Neuroimage 49 (2010), pp. 782-793
DOI information: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.07.065