FYI
Dear colleague,
Thomas Knösche and I organize the 5th International Summer School in
Biomedical Engineering on "Multimodal integration of functional brain
measurements"
The summer school will be held August 18-25, 2010, in Wittenberg/Germany
(UNESCO World Heritage Site).
For more information, please see our website:
http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/fakia/Summerschool-2010.summerschool-20090.0.html
I would be happy if you could distribute this call within your institute
and forward it to interested colleagues.
Best wishes,
Jens Haueisen
p.s. Please excuse me for any accidental double postings.
--
Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.ukhttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/about-us/people/ggrg
tel. +44 (0) 1904 435349
PA (Claire Fox) +44 (0) 1904 435329
fax +44 (0) 1904 435356
mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004
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Subject: summer studentship in Cambridge
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:05:42 +0100
From: Bob Carlyon <bob.carlyon(a)MRC-CBU.CAM.AC.UK>
Reply-To: bob.carlyon(a)mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Organization: Medical Research Council
To: EAR-MAIL(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Dear all,
I'd appreciate it if you could alert any suitable & interested students
to this opportunity:
*MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit – Cambridge*
*Student Vacation Placement: Electrophysiological and behavioural
studies of human hearing*
* *
The MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBSU) is an internationally
renowned research institute with state-of-the-art cognitive neuroscience
facilities, including 3T-fMRI (Siemens), EEG, access to
neuropsychological patient panels, and an MEG facility (Elekta Neuromag).
* *
We are able to offer one student vacation placement to undertake a
project of research under the guidance of Dr Bob Carlyon. The
experiment will involve studies of human hearing, and will include both
behavioural experiments and studies of auditory brainstem and cortical
activity, using evoked potentials measured from scalp electrodes. The
successful candidate will be trained in the appropriate techniques and
will have the opportunity to contribute to the design and analysis of
the experiments.
This placement will be for an 8 week period between mid June until mid
September – the exact timing will be agreed in advance with the supervisor.
You will have, or be in the process of obtaining a degree in psychology
or a related discipline, and show a keen interest in obtaining research
experience. Previous experience in conducting behavioural experiments
would be useful, but full training will be given.
The stipend, which is funded by the Wellcome Trust, will be £200 per
week. On site car and bicycle parking is available.
Applications should be sent, preferably by email, to Joe Worth,
joseph.worth(a)mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk <mailto:joseph.worth@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk>,
or alternatively by posting to 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 7EF.
Please include a cover letter and current CV when applying.
Closing date: 9^th June 2010
--
Dr. Bob Carlyon
MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit
15 Chaucer Rd
Cambridge CB2 7EF
England
Tel: +44 1223 355294
Fax: +44 1223 359062
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/hearing
--
Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.ukhttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/about-us/people/ggrg
tel. +44 (0) 1904 435349
PA (Claire Fox) +44 (0) 1904 435329
fax +44 (0) 1904 435356
mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004
This afternoon David Crewther will give a project proposal talk at 4 pm
in YNiC open plan entitled
"Nonlinearities in Multi-focal Magnetoencephalography"
Abstract
Multi-focal visual evoked potentials have become a standard tool in the
diagnosis of glaucoma and retinal vascular disease. However, the
randomization techniques employed to de-correlate sequences for
stimulation of patches of visual field also offer the opportunity for
analysis of non-linearities in evoked responses. These have been used to
derive separate magnocellular and parvocellular contributions to the
cortical VEP. Here we propose to develop similar m-sequence based
pseudo-random stimulation techniques to MEG with the purpose of
localizing the time-course of activation of the M and P pathways as they
extend into dorsal and ventral cortical streams. A beam-former approach
to this question will be followed, answering questions regarding the
role of the “magnocellular advantage” in object recognition. An initial
13 patch cortically scaled m-sequence multi-focal stimulus has been
developed. Extensions to higher resolution cortical imaging are
proposed. However multi-focal fMRI imaging indicates eye-movement
control is vital. Hence a gaze-contingent system using
retinally-stabilized presentation is being developed that will allow an
estimate of the optimal high resolution MEG mapping of visual cortex.
All welcome
*YNIC 5th Birthday drinks will be held immediately after the seminar*
--
************************************************************************
Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
This summer school may be of interest to some of you...
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Subject: [visionlist] CINN Summer School, University of Reading, UK
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:02:47 +0100
From: Etienne B. Roesch <etienne.roesch(a)gmail.com>
To: connectionists(a)cs.cmu.edu, SPM(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK, nesy(a)city.ac.uk,
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[Apologies for cross-posting..]
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the second edition of the CINN Summer School. The summer school is directed at graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, computational neuroscience, mathematics, computer sciences and engineering, who wish to combine a theoretical approach to neurodynamics with practical experience in neuroimaging (MRI, EEG, TMS, fMRI-EEG, & EEG-TMS). We are very excited to announce a guest tutorial by Prof. Walter Freeman, and practical demonstrations of combined fMRI-EEG and combined EEG-TMS by Brain Products (http://www.brainproducts.com).
More will soon be posted here: http://www.reading.ac.uk/cinn/cinn-summerschool.aspx
Objective
A successful approach to cognitive neuroscience and neurodynamics requires knowledge of both modelling and neuroimaging techniques. The objective of the CINN Summer School is to bridge the gaps between these fields, and to provide students with a practical understanding of both the brain and some of the cutting-edge methods to investigate it.
Programme
The summer school is organised from the 7th to the 16th of July. It will start with a 2-day course delivered in partnership with Brain Products (http://www.brainproducts.com) on combined fMRI-EEG, and combined EEG-TMS, including theoretical lectures and practical demonstrations using the facilities in CINN. The third day will provide boot strap sessions aimed at bringing all students up to speed with basic concepts in cognition, cognitive neuroscience and mathematics. In the following week, students will be given the opportunity to attend a series of lectures and tutorials by some of the leading personalities in their fields, including a guest tutorial by Prof. Walter Freeman. Classes will touch upon the following themes: emotion, inverse models, language, neural synchrony, neurodynamics and non-linear dynamics.
Detailed program to be announced soon. More on the practical fMRI-EEG and EEG-TMS demonstrations here: http://www.brainproducts.com/filedownload.php?path=workshops/WS_Reading_Pro…
Registration
Registration to the summer school is now open. Attendance is free. Participants will be selected on the basis of the expected gain from the summer school. Registration for practical demonstrations (fMRI-EEG, and EEG-TMS) is limited. Unfortunately, we will not be able to offer any grant for travel or accommodation.
To apply, send to cinn(a)reading.ac.uk by 15th of June, midnight GMT: your curriculum vitae and a one-page pdf document describing a) your research interests, b) your experience in neuroscience, computational neuroscience and mathematics, and c) your motivation to apply and how the summer school could help you in your research. Applications will be reviewed by the steering committee, and students who have not been selected will be given the opportunity to enter a waiting list.
Venue
Classes will be hosted at the University of Reading. Practicals using MRI, EEG and TMS will be hosted in the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN). The CINN is an interdisciplinary research facility where cutting-edge research meets world-class facilities: a research-dedicated 3T Siemens Trio MRI scanner, MR-compatible EEG recording systems (Brain Products), and a MR-compatible TMS delivery system (Mag & More, and Brain Products).
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Dr. Etienne B. Roesch
Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics
University of Reading, UK
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Dr Tim Andrews
Department of Psychology
University of York
York, YO10 5DD
UK
Tel: 44-1904-434356
Fax: 44-1904-433181
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ta505/
Hi,
On Thursday 3rd June between 1000 and 1500, we will be having the YNiC
Server Room UPS serviced. This means that there will be no backup power
in the server room during this time.
This should not cause any disruption except in the unlikely event of
total power loss to the Biocentre during this time. Unfortunately this
work is unavoidable and it is not practical to have it performed out of
hours. In the event of a major failure during this time, we have plans
to shut down the cluster and use auxiliary UPSes to bring core systems
back online quickly.
Thanks,
Mark
--
Mark Hymers
York Neuroimaging Centre
Hi,
I've just pushed a patched fslview out to all of the YNiC machines
(including remote desktop service). The only change in this version is
that it now defaults[0] to saving masks which are created as .nii.gz
(NIFTI files) instead of .hdr/.img pairs (ANALYZE format). This makes
sense as the rest of FSL has deprecated ANALYZE support and it causes
all sorts of trouble later on in the analysis stream.
Thanks to Jodie for bringing this to my attention.
Please let me know of any problems this causes or if you find any
machines which didn't get the update.
Cheers,
Mark
[0] Although I say "defaults to", you can't force a different file
output type easily in the GUI as far as I can tell. If anyone needs to
for some reason, the correct way to make fslview output ANALYZE is to
run fslview from the command line having first set the FSLOUTPUTTYPE
environment variable, i.e.:
$ export FSLOUTPUTTYPE=ANALYZE
$ fslview
I've no idea why anyone would want to still be using ANALYZE, but
thought it should be mentioned for the sake of completeness. This is
also the same mechanism as applies for the rest of FSL, but it should
be noted that ANALYZE support is now partial and I believe is slated for
removal in a future release.
--
Mark Hymers
York Neuroimaging Centre
FYI
****************************************************************
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
From: nlc_distribution-bounces(a)nlc2009.angularis.org [mailto:nlc_distribution-bounces@nlc2009.angularis.org] On Behalf Of Pascale Tremblay
Sent: 25 May 2010 12:15
To: nlc_distribution(a)nlc2009.angularis.org
Subject: [NLC2009] Only one week left to submit your abstracts!!
Importance: High
Dear colleague,
A reminder that abstract submission for the second Neurobiology of Language Conference (NLC 2010) will be closing in one week, on Tuesday, June 1st at midnight (CST)! To submit an abstract, visit our website at http://www.neurolang.org. Don't miss this opportunity to share your research with the neurobiology of language scientific community!
NLC 2010 will be held on November 11-12 2010 in San Diego as a satellite of the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting. A reminder that you do not need to attend the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting, or be a member of SfN, to attend NLC. If you are planning to attend SfN, however, please note that SfN regulations allow individuals to present their SfN abstracts during satellite events.
We look forward to seeing you in San Diego!
Sincerely,
Pascale Tremblay, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, The University of Chicago
Steven L. Small, Ph.D., M.D., Professor, The University of Chicago
The Neurobiology of Language Planning Group:
Michael Arbib, Ph.D., University of Southern California, USA
Jeffrey Binder, M.D., Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Vincent Gracco, Ph.D., McGill University, Canada
Yosef Grodzinsky, Ph.D., McGill University, Canada
Murray Grossman, M.D., Ed.D., University of Pennsylvania, USA
Peter Hagoort, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute, Netherlands
Gregory Hickok, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, USA
Marta Kutas, Ph.D., The University of California, San Diego, USA
Alec Marantz, Ph.D., New York University, USA
Howard Nusbaum, Ph.D., The University of Chicago, USA
Cathy Price, Ph.D., University College London, UK
David Poeppel, Ph.D., New York University, USA
Rita Salmelin, Ph.D., Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Kunioshi Sakai, Ph.D., Tokyo University, Japan
Steven L. Small, Ph.D, M.D., The University of Chicago, USA
Sharon Thompson-Schill, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Pascale Tremblay, Ph.D., The University of Chicago, USA
Richard Wise, M.D., Ph.D, Imperial College, London, UK
Kate Watkins, Ph.D., University of Oxford, UK
If your fMRI protocol (usually set up be me and saved for you one the
scanner) uses BrainWave during acquisition (the screen that pops up
after the radiographer does the prep-scan before each fMRI acquisition),
please note the following:
An observed bug in the GE software means that slices may be lost of if
the BrainWave window is closed prematurely. If you are using Brainwave
(i.e. if it is visible during your acquisitions) please make sure that
it has reached 100% in the bottom right corner before closing it and
moving on to the next scan .. either check this yourself or ask your
friendly radiographer to check this for you on every scan.
Let me know if you experience any problems.
A
--
Andre'
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Andre Gouws
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 435327
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
This Thursday (May 27th), David Crewther will give a project proposal
talk at 4 pm in YNiC open plan entitled
"Nonlinearities in Multi-focal Magnetoencephalography"
Abstract
Multi-focal visual evoked potentials have become a standard tool in the
diagnosis of glaucoma and retinal vascular disease. However, the
randomization techniques employed to de-correlate sequences for
stimulation of patches of visual field also offer the opportunity for
analysis of non-linearities in evoked responses. These have been used to
derive separate magnocellular and parvocellular contributions to the
cortical VEP. Here we propose to develop similar m-sequence based
pseudo-random stimulation techniques to MEG with the purpose of
localizing the time-course of activation of the M and P pathways as they
extend into dorsal and ventral cortical streams. A beam-former approach
to this question will be followed, answering questions regarding the
role of the “magnocellular advantage” in object recognition. An initial
13 patch cortically scaled m-sequence multi-focal stimulus has been
developed. Extensions to higher resolution cortical imaging are
proposed. However multi-focal fMRI imaging indicates eye-movement
control is vital. Hence a gaze-contingent system using
retinally-stabilized presentation is being developed that will allow an
estimate of the optimal high resolution MEG mapping of visual cortex.
All welcome
YNIC 5th Birthday drinks will be held immediately after the seminar
--
Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.ukhttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/about-us/people/ggrg
tel. +44 (0) 1904 435349
PA (Claire Fox) +44 (0) 1904 435329
fax +44 (0) 1904 435356
mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004
Vitaly Napadow
"Neuroimaging in basic and translational acupuncture research"
This talk will take place today from 12-1 pm.
Link to Vitaly Nadapow's website:
Vitaly Napadow's webpage: http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~vitaly/
*Brief Bio*
Dr. Vitaly Napadow is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School
and the Department of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He
received his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Vitaly also graduated from the New England
School of Acupuncture (NESA), and practices acupuncture at Brigham &
Women's Hospital Pain Management Center. His research interests focus on
the processing of acupuncture by the brain, and the mechanisms
underlying acupuncture efficacy for various disease states including
chronic pain.
**Abstract**
Acupuncture is an ancient East Asian healing modality that has been in
use for more than 2000 years. Unfortunately, its mechanisms of action
are not well understood, and controversy regarding its clinical efficacy
remains. Importantly, acupuncture needling often evokes complex
somatosensory sensations and may modulate the cognitive/affective
perception of pain, suggesting that many effects are supported by the
brain’s control of central nervous system networks. Modern neuroimaging
techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging provide a means
to safely monitor brain activity in humans and may be used to both
characterize brain response to acupuncture stimulation, as well as to
map the neurophysiological correlates of acupuncture’s effects on
various pathologies. In this talk, I will outline some of our lab’s
recent studies including (1) mapping the specific brain correlates of
acupuncture sensation, known as deqi, which is thought to be associated
with good clinical outcomes, (2) investigating acupuncture’s delayed
effects on resting functional connectivity in default mode and
sensorimotor brain networks, and (3) evaluating the effects of a course
of clinical acupuncture therapy on somatosensory processing and
somatotopy in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome.
All welcome
--
Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.ukhttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/about-us/people/ggrg
tel. +44 (0) 1904 435349
PA (Claire Fox) +44 (0) 1904 435329
fax +44 (0) 1904 435356
mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004
