Dear Users
This Thursday the Cognitive Neurosciences MSc students will be giving
project proposal presentations for their empirical research projects.
Please note that the talks will start at the usual time of 4.15 pm but
these talks will take place in Psychology (B020).
Please below for details of project titles and speakers.
Best wishes
Rebecca
(1) MEG to faces: is M170 on the blink? - Pat Johnston
JOHNSON, EILEANOIR BRIDGET,
KOKKINAKIS, ATHANASIOS
(2) Cortical mechanisms involved in attention to colour - Alex Wade (fMRI)
OLIVER, ZOE,
SMITH, AARON,
WONG, PEONY
(3) Imaging using hyperpolarised molecules - Gary Green
ALI, SHELIZA
CAMILLERI, JULIA ANN,
TROY, DAVID MAURICE,
CHEN, JING,
ROBERTS, INDIA MELANIE SUZANNE
(4) A combined fMRI-TMS study of semantic representation and control -
Beth Jefferies (fMRI/TMS)
COSTIGAN, ALISON GRACE
LIU, YANNAN
MURPHY, NICHOLAS
GOGOLEV, PAVEL
(5) Understanding Misunderstanding - S.A. Rueschemeyer (EEG)
STONER, CATHERINE
GARDNER, TOM
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
York
YO10 5DG
Email: rem(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Tel: 01904 435 5373
Dear Colleagues and Users
As you may have heard, there has was a major flood within the Biocentre
building on Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately we only found out about this
when computers went off line. By that time water had been leaking into our
area for about two hours. It took a further three hours before the
problems were brought under control.
Water came through the ceilings into YNiC and has caused damage within a
number of rooms. The most seriously affected area was the server room.
Mark Hymers and his colleagues managed to get a large amount of the
equipment out of the room but not before some serious damage had been
done.
We now have to assess the extent of that damage. I am sorry to say that
this will take time. We have already emptied water out of many disc
drives, servers, network switches and power supplies. In other words we
are very badly affected by this flood. The University insurers have been
informed and we are waiting for a loss adjustor to come to the site.
A very basic set of services have been re-established. These allow
psych-mail and ynic-mail to work as we realise that people would have been
greatly affected by the loss of those services. But we have to say that
these services are not guaranteed. The machines that are running may have
been affected by the water damage and may fail. We may also have to
change the servers managing these services at short notice. I apologise
for any inconvenience that may be caused.
We do not have any other services within YNiC. The desktop computers,
data-stores (MEG/MRI), remote access, tape-backups and other core services
are not available. As the MRI and MEG devices depend on these services
they are also not available. The Scratch spaces within the disc space have
been affected and some data/analyses will be lost. Water leaked into the
TMS area and is also not useable. I am unable at this stage to tell you
when these facilities and resources will be available again. As
information becomes available I will let you know of any changes.
The YNiC open plan area is not accessible. We have used some desks for the
temporary server configuration. Cables have had to be run across the floor
and as there are no user accessible services we would be grateful if
everyone can stay away from YNiC until further notice.
This will affect a large number of people. We will try hard to get serive
back to normal. at this stage I cannot tell you when this will be. It will
certainly take at least two weeks as we will have to order some
replacement machines and discs to be able to get anyway close to normal
operation.
Gary
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
York
YO10 5DG
tel (+44) (0) 1904 435349
fax (+44) (0) 1904 435356
mobile 07986778954
Dear Users
There will not be a YNiC seminar this week (9th February).
Normal service will resume next week when the MSc CN students will be
giving project proposal presentations for their empirical research projects.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
Dear Users
Today (4.15-5.15 pm) Mark Hymers and Padraig Kitterick will be giving a
talk on "Safe levels of noise exposure in MR scanning at YNiC". Please
see below for the talk abstract.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
Abstract:
In 2011 Mark Hymers, Padraig Kitterick, Rebecca Millman and Quentin
Summerfield were awarded a small grant by the Department of Psychology
to investigate the feasibility of carrying out auditory fMRI research
safely at YNiC. This talk will present the main findings of the work
funded by this grant and should be 1) of interest to anyone who uses MRI
and 2) of particular interest to those who wish to carry out auditory
fMRI experiments.
MR scanners generate very loud levels (>105 dB SPL) of noise. Exposure
to intense noise can potentially damage hearing and the effects of
exposure to very loud sounds are cumulative over the total exposure
time. Researchers who use MR scanners must protect their participants
against hearing damage by ensuring that exposure to noise levels in MR
remain within the UK legal limits.
Important considerations that will impact the design of all MRI
experiments are 1) the duration of the structural scans/fMRI experiments
and 2) the amount of attenuation of unwanted noise provided by hearing
protection available at YNiC. For auditory fMRI experiments, researchers
must also take into account the effects of adding the presentation level
of auditory stimuli to the scanner noise. The talk will provide an
overview of the guidelines written by Hymers et al. in the full report
and present easy-to-use tools for calculating levels of noise exposure
in MRI experiments.
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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
Apologies for cross-postings
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Dear Colleagues,
On Friday 10th February, YNiC Open Plan and Offices will be closing at
midday. This is to allow for some essential maintenance and debugging
to occur on one of the core IT systems. We will be taking the
opportunity to also move certain data to new storage and perform some
other system upgrades at the same time which would have otherwise
required separate downtime.
The MRI scanner will still be usable during this period and the
Psychology mail server will not be affected.
Systems which will be affected include the YNiC website, booking system,
remote desktop, VPN service and all YNiC desktops. We expect these
systems to be back online around 5pm.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused
Gary
Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
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