ynic-users February 2011

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YNiC seminar 3rd March
by rem 28 Feb '11

28 Feb '11

Dear Users This week (4.30-5.30 pm) there will be a YNiC project proposal presentation by Lilia Psalta. The title of Lilia's talk is "Neural correlates of the Thatcher Illusion". Summary: The Thatcher illusion is a phenomenon where it becomes difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside down face, despite identical changes being obvious in an upright face. The illusion was named after the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on whose photograph the effect has been most famously demonstrated (Thompson, 1980). The aim of this proposal is to use the Thatcher Illusion to explore how information about the identity, expression and attractiveness of faces is represented in the brain. Everyone is welcome to attend. Best wishes Rebecca -- ************************************************************************ 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

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YNiC seminar today
by rem 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

Dear Users This afternoon (4.30-5.30 pm) is the second round of the Cognitive Neuroscience MSc students' project proposal presentations. Please find details on talk titles, project supervisors and speakers below. Everyone is welcome to attend. Best wishes Rebecca Neural correlates of memory consolidation during sleep (Gaskell) ABIGAIL STACKHOUSE REBECCA FROST REZA SNOWDON JAMES GUEST Long-term forgetting in temporal lobe epilepsy (Badeley, Crawford) BRUCE RAWLINGS AMIE HAYES The effects of visual contrast manipulation on positive and negative BOLD activity in subcortical visual areas (Morland, Gouws and Silson) DAVID WATSON IVAN ALVAREZ YUN YU -- ************************************************************************ 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

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YNiC seminar 24th February
by rem 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Dear Users This week (4.30-5.30 pm) it is the second round of the Cognitive Neuroscience MSc students' project proposal presentations. Please find details on talk titles, project supervisors and speakers below. Everyone is welcome to attend. Best wishes Rebecca Neural correlates of memory consolidation during sleep (Gaskell) ABIGAIL STACKHOUSE REBECCA FROST REZA SNOWDON JAMES GUEST Long-term forgetting in temporal lobe epilepsy (Badeley, Crawford) BRUCE RAWLINGS AMIE HAYES The effects of visual contrast manipulation on positive and negative BOLD activity in subcortical visual areas (Morland, Gouws and Silson) DAVID WATSON IVAN ALVAREZ YUN YU -- ************************************************************************ 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

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YNiC seminar today
by rem 17 Feb '11

17 Feb '11

Dear Users Today (4.30-5.30 pm) the Cognitive Neuroscience MSc students will be giving project proposal presentations. Please find details on talk titles, project supervisors and speakers below. Everyone is welcome to attend. Best wishes Rebecca 1) "Phonological, Semantic and Executive Processing in LIFG" (Jefferies, Whitney, Krieger-Redwood) CATARINA TEIGE JAMES DAVEY JONATHAN MOSS GERORGE FLORIDES 2) "Language production and comprehension: how does it change with brain maturation?" (Gennari, Levita) FUNMILAYO OLADAPO GABY PFEIFER JACQUELINE BINGE IVETA EIMONTAITE 3) "Who is talking to who, and when? Estimating dynamic functional connectivity patterns in visual word recognition with MEG" (Cornelissen, Johnson, Simpson) VICTORIA BRATTAN DASHIEL MUNDING ANDREW QUINN LUCIA HRMLOVA 4) "Amygdala response to basic emotions" (Azghar, Young) TESSA FLACK JULIA FREY MLADEN SORMAZ SIYAN FAN DENIZ USTEN LUIS MANSSUER -- ************************************************************************ 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

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BBSRC
by Tim Andrews 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/feb/10/cuts-disastrous-brain-science… -- 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/

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YNiC seminar 17th February
by rem 14 Feb '11

14 Feb '11

Dear Users This week (4.30-5.30 pm) the Cognitive Neuroscience MSc students will be giving project proposal presentations. Please find details on talk titles, project supervisors and speakers below. Everyone is welcome to attend. Best wishes Rebecca 1) "Phonological, Semantic and Executive Processing in LIFG" (Jefferies,Whitney, Krieger-Redwood) CATARINA TEIGE JAMES DAVEY JONATHAN MOSS GERORGE FLORIDES 2) "Language production and comprehension: how does it change with brain maturation?" (Gennari, Levita) FUNMILAYO OLADAPO GABY PFEIFER JACQUELINE BINGE IVETA EIMONTAITE 3) "Who is talking to who, and when? Estimating dynamic functional connectivity patterns in visual word recognition with MEG" (Cornelissen, Johnson, Simpson) VICTORIA BRATTAN DASHIEL MUNDING ANDREW QUINN LUCIA HRMLOVA 4) "Amygdala response to basic emotions" (Azghar, Young) TESSA FLACK JULIA FREY MLADEN SORMAZ SIYAN FAN DENIZ USTEN LUIS MANSSUER -- ************************************************************************ 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

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[Fwd: [megcommunity] Advert Chair]
by Gary Green 11 Feb '11

11 Feb '11

FYI -------- Original Message -------- UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology (INP) Faculty Position in Formal Models of Cortical Networks - may be appointed at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader or Professor level Ref: M00075 Salary: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - £31,798 - £52,556 per annum Reader/Professor – negotiable – depends on experience Applications are invited for a faculty position (up to chair level) in Formal Models of Cortical Networks from individuals with an outstanding research record. The post is designed to complement existing research strengths in the Institute for Neuroscience and Psychology and to develop a programme for studying and describing networks across the different Centres of the Institute. The Post-holder will provide research leadership in the area of cortical networks and networks in general (connectivity, information theory, graph theory). The Post-holder will be expected to raise external funds to support their research programme, to attract postdoctoral research staff and PhD students, and to contribute to research-led teaching, especially via the development of specialised content for masters and postgraduate degrees. Candidates for this post will have an exceptional international research profile, including a track record of high impact publications and substantial research funding, in the areas of network/connectivity analysis, information theory or graph theory. Informal enquiries may be made to Philippe Schyns (Director of Institute, +44 141 330 4937, philippe(a)psy.gla.ac.uk) or Joachim Gross (Acting Director of Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi), +44 141 330 3947, joachim(a)psy.gla.ac.uk). Apply online at www.glasgow.ac.uk/jobs Closing date: 12 April 2011.

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YNiC seminar today
by rem 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Dear Users There will be 2 talks this afternoon (4.30-5-.30 pm in YNiC): 1) Nora Vyas, King's College London ****"Brain Anatomical Changes in Childhood-Onset Psychosis: Insights from fMRI and MEG" Abnormal neuronal connectivity in the “default mode” network has been implicated in schizophrenia. Although the precise role of the default mode network appears elusive, the component brain regions and associated cognitive processes in the default mode appear relevant in schizophrenia. This talk will provide an overview on neuroimaging studies identifying progressive brain changes in childhood onset schizophrenia (COS; onset before age 13), a rare and severe form of the adult-onset counterpart, and their biological full siblings. To study the “default network” across traditional frequency bands seen in electrophysiological literature, an ongoing project at the Child Psychiatry Branch, NIMH, has focused on investigating spontaneous magnetoencephalographic (MEG) patterns during eyes-closed resting-state in COS and their full healthy siblings. The findings will be discussed followed by conclusions and future directions. Dr Nora S Vyas’s webpage: http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/staff/profile/default.aspx?go=11900 2) Tom Hartley, Department of Psychology "Efficient Localisation of the Human Grid System" In 2005, a remarkable new class of cells was discovered in the medial entorhinal cortex of the rat, forming an important input to the hippocampus. As an animal moves about its environment, grid cells fire at an array of locations spanning the environment to form an equilateral triangular grid (see http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Grid_cells for more information). The crystal-like repeating symmetry of the grid cells' multipeaked firing patterns is unique and the grids form a completely novel and hitherto unanticipated type of neural representation. Doeller and colleagues (Nature, Feb 2010) showed that signatures of this grid system could be detected in fMRI data from humans exploring a virtual environment. However this was only possible using a complex retrospective analysis, so it was not possible to manipulate properties of the environment or task to examine the grid system's properties systematically. This project proposes a new method for localising the grid system efficiently, using an experimental design which fully exploits its remarkable and unique regularity. If this method proves viable, it will enable us to quickly localise the grid system in each individual so that its detailed properties and role in behaviour can be fully and thoroughly investigated Everyone is welcome to attend. Rebecca -- ************************************************************************ 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

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[Fwd: [SPM] Postdoctoral Fellowship on infant neurocognitive and brain development using MRI, Eyetracking, and EEG]
by Gary Green 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

FYI --------------------------------- * * *_Job description:_* National University of Singapore (NUS) is a leading global university centred in Asia. It offers a global approach to education and research, with a focus on Asian perspectives and expertise. Computation functional anatomy laboratory at NUS (http://www.bioeng.nus.edu.sg/cfa) focuses on brain and cognition studies using neuroimaging techniques. Our group is leading a large-scale healthy infant neuroimaging project in Singapore. The project examines neurocognition using EEG and eye trackers and brain development using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), resting-state fMRI, and structural MRI. We are looking for a research fellow who is interested in multi-modal MRI studies in infants for understanding normal development of brain and cognition trajectory. We offer high salary with medical and other benefits. *_Requirements:_* · Ph. D · Research background on infant brain or child cognition is preferable but necessary · Knowledge in statistical analysis is necessary · Good communication and writing skills in English language If you are interested in the jobs listed below, please send your CV to Dr. Anqi QIU Division of Bioengineering National University of Singapore Email: bieqa(a)nus.edu.sg <mailto:bieqa@nus.edu.sg> Phone: +(65) 6516 7002

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[Fwd: Post Doctoral Job Opportunity at Stanford University]
by Gary Green 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

FYI ----------------------------- A full-time Postdoctoral Fellow position is available for a highly motivated individual with a strong interest in human social cognition and a solid background in computational neuroscience. The project focuses on the creation of an integrated social cognition laboratory that includes Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) imaging, physiological measurements, behavioral coding and eye tracking. The postdoctoral fellow will be involved in the development of hyperscanning protocols (scanning 2 or more individuals simultaneously), brain-computer interfaces and computational methods to process and analyze data across multiple scientific levels. The successful applicant will have technical qualifications that include proficient Matlab programming and signal processing experience. Applicants should have (or anticipate having) a Ph.D. and research background in computational neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience and/or functional brain imaging. Applicants with experience conducting Near Infrared Spectroscopy studies and data analysis procedures will receive preference. Having significant experience in fMRI is also a plus. Duties will also include manuscript preparation and grant preparation. *Contact Information: * Reiko R. Riley Assistant to Dr. Allan Reiss/Administrative Associate Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research Stanford University School of Medicine 401 Quarry, MC 5795 Stanford, CA 94305 Office (650) 498-4538 Fax (650) 724-4761 Email: reikor(a)stanford.edu Website: http://cibsr.stanford.edu/ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: Information contained in this message and any attachments is intended only for the addressee(s). If you believe that you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by return electronic mail, and please delete it without further review, disclosure, or copying.

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