Apologies for not keeping you informed of the progress at YNiC.
The reason is simply that over the last two weeks we have mainly been
dealing with the insurers, getting equipment tested and refurbishing the
affected spaces. Unfortunately progress has been slow because we have
been waiting for others outside of the University to visit YNiC and
write reports. We have also been delayed as some items were not
available from stock.
The IT server room is now being used again and some equipment is being
moved back into the racks.
We have taken delivery of the first replacement servers and these are
being tested. The memory tests will hopefully be completed tomorrow.
Then they will be configured. This is really just the start of
rebuilding the services and is not enough to be able to offer users
access to data or to resume scanning. I am very sorry for the
inconvenience that this is causing.
We are still negotiating with the insurers. This has become protracted
due to issues around service agreements and whether items of equipment
are working properly. These discussions will continue into next week but
we hope to resolve all the outstanding issues before Easter.
We are still confident of being up and running for next term, but I will
keep you informed of any change in these plans.
Gary
--
Gary Green
Director
York Neuroimaging Centre& YNI Ltd
The Biocentre
York Science Park
York
YO10 5DG
tel (+44) (0) 1904 435349
fax (+44) (0) 1904 435356
mobile 07986778954
PA (Denize Chessa) (+44) (0) 1904 435329
FYI
Gary Green
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Early Career Research Assistantship/Phd studentship in Brain Plasticity
(two posts)
Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital,
Oxford
EC Marie Curie Fellowship: €38,095
Two fellowship positions are available for a period of 3 years, tenable
at Oxford University, on a project entitled “Adaptive Brain
Computations” (ABC) which is a multi-disciplinary research and training
programme which aims to integrate the study of learning and brain
plasticity to promote wellbeing and advance healthcare interventions.
Candidates will be employed by the University on an EC Marie Curie
Initial Training Network award and, if suitable, registered for a DPhil.
Candidates will work within the Plasticity Group at the FMRIB Centre,
under the supervision of Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg. Our research
aims to understand how learning, recovery of function and changes in the
environment, result in plastic changes in the human brain. The work will
combine brain imaging, brain stimulation and behavioural techniques to
study healthy volunteers, stroke sufferers and people with sensory loss
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promote mobility within the research community, to be eligible for the
post you must not have been resident in the UK for more than 12 months
in the past three years.
The closing date for applications is Monday 2 April 2012 and interviews
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Contact Person : Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg
Vacancy ID : 102318
Closing Date : 02-Apr-2012
Contact Email : heidi.johansen-berg(a)ndcn.ox.ac.uk
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--
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Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
FMRIB Centre
John Radcliffe Hospital
Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 222548
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Subject: FW: [esan] Position for PhD project entitled "The overlap between
social mentalizing and attentional reorienting: The role of the
temporo-parietal junction"
From: "Wheat Katie (PSYCHOLOGY)" <katie.wheat(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl>
Date: Fri, March 9, 2012 1:04 pm
To: "'ynic-users(a)ynic.york.ac.uk'" <ynic-users(a)ynic.york.ac.uk>
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Dear all,
FYI: PhD position advertised below
Best wishes,
Katie
____________________________________________________________________________
Katherine L Wheat
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience | Faculty of Psychology and
Neuroscience | Maastricht University
Room 5.741 | Universiteitssingel 40 East | 6229 ER Maastricht
* PO Box 616 | 6200 MD Maastricht | The Netherlands
* +31 (0)43 3881901
katie.wheat(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl<mailto:katie.wheat@maastrichtuniversity.nl>
From: Ruiter R (PSYCHOLOGY)
Sent: 09 March 2012 12:44
To: FDP-CN-L
Subject: FW: [esan] Position for PhD project entitled "The overlap between
social mentalizing and attentional reorienting: The role of the
temporo-parietal junction"
FYI
________________________________
From: owner-esan(a)listserv.vub.ac.be<mailto:owner-esan@listserv.vub.ac.be>
[mailto:owner-esan@listserv.vub.ac.be]<mailto:[mailto:owner-esan@listserv.vub.ac.be]>
On Behalf Of Frank Van Overwalle
Sent: vrijdag 9 maart 2012 12:28
To: esan(a)listserv.vub.ac.be<mailto:esan@listserv.vub.ac.be>
Cc: baps(a)listserv.vub.ac.be<mailto:baps@listserv.vub.ac.be>
Subject: [esan] Position for PhD project entitled "The overlap between
social mentalizing and attentional reorienting: The role of the
temporo-parietal junction"
We are looking for a student interested in working on a PhD project
entitled "The overlap between social mentalizing and attentional
reorienting: The role of the temporo-parietal junction". The project
involves behavioral and fMRI studies in the domain of social cognitive
neuroscience. We are looking for students who are motivated, interested in
the topic, and have earned high grades in their masters year. Experience
with fMRI is not required, but some programming experience is welcomed.
The selected candidate can start right away. The project is conducted at
the universities of Brussels and Ghent, Belgium. Supervisors are Frank Van
Overwalle and Marcel Brass.
If you are interested, sent your CV and a letter of motivation, no later
than *Wednesday 21 march.* (Please name the attached CV and letter as
follows: yourname_CV, yourname_letter).
For more information contact:
Frank Van Overwalle at
Frank.VanOverwalle(a)vub.ac.be<mailto:Frank.VanOverwalle@vub.ac.be>
Best regards,
Frank Van Overwalle
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Prof Andy Ellis
Department of Psychology
University of York
York YO10 5DD
UK
http://www.york.ac.uk/psychology/staff/faculty/awe1/
Dear all,
FYI: PhD position advertised below
Best wishes,
Katie
____________________________________________________________________________
Katherine L Wheat
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience | Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience | Maastricht University
Room 5.741 | Universiteitssingel 40 East | 6229 ER Maastricht
* PO Box 616 | 6200 MD Maastricht | The Netherlands
* +31 (0)43 3881901
katie.wheat(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl<mailto:katie.wheat@maastrichtuniversity.nl>
From: Ruiter R (PSYCHOLOGY)
Sent: 09 March 2012 12:44
To: FDP-CN-L
Subject: FW: [esan] Position for PhD project entitled "The overlap between social mentalizing and attentional reorienting: The role of the temporo-parietal junction"
FYI
________________________________
From: owner-esan(a)listserv.vub.ac.be<mailto:owner-esan@listserv.vub.ac.be> [mailto:owner-esan@listserv.vub.ac.be]<mailto:[mailto:owner-esan@listserv.vub.ac.be]> On Behalf Of Frank Van Overwalle
Sent: vrijdag 9 maart 2012 12:28
To: esan(a)listserv.vub.ac.be<mailto:esan@listserv.vub.ac.be>
Cc: baps(a)listserv.vub.ac.be<mailto:baps@listserv.vub.ac.be>
Subject: [esan] Position for PhD project entitled "The overlap between social mentalizing and attentional reorienting: The role of the temporo-parietal junction"
We are looking for a student interested in working on a PhD project entitled "The overlap between social mentalizing and attentional reorienting: The role of the temporo-parietal junction". The project involves behavioral and fMRI studies in the domain of social cognitive neuroscience. We are looking for students who are motivated, interested in the topic, and have earned high grades in their masters year. Experience with fMRI is not required, but some programming experience is welcomed.
The selected candidate can start right away. The project is conducted at the universities of Brussels and Ghent, Belgium. Supervisors are Frank Van Overwalle and Marcel Brass.
If you are interested, sent your CV and a letter of motivation, no later than *Wednesday 21 march.* (Please name the attached CV and letter as follows: yourname_CV, yourname_letter).
For more information contact:
Frank Van Overwalle at Frank.VanOverwalle(a)vub.ac.be<mailto:Frank.VanOverwalle@vub.ac.be>
Best regards,
Frank Van Overwalle
Dear Users
This afternoon there will be a project proposal presentation given by
David Watson. The title of the talk is "How are Scenes Represented in the
Brain?".
Please note that the talks will start at the usual time of 4.15 pm but
these talks will take place in Psychology in the Venables room (A202).
Please below for the talk abstract.
Best wishes
Rebecca
Abstract:
Human ventral visual cortex has been noted to contain regions showing
selectivity for higher level visual objects categories – including faces,
body parts, inanimate objects, and place scenes. A key question in this
area is whether such regions may best be regarded as discrete modules with
no finer internal structure and not belonging to any wider overarching
structure, or whether such regions may exist as points along a wider
topographical map of object category.
The current project aims to investigate this question within the context
of cortical regions responsive to place scenes. It has been shown that
scene images can be categorised along their semantic categories (e.g.
cityscape, forest, coastline, etc.) based on their underlying low-level
visual properties (Oliva & Torralba, 2001). As such, scene category forms
a possible dimension along which scene selective cortical regions could be
organised.
Using fMRI, we propose to compare patterns of cortical activity elicited
by fixed blocks of natural scene sub-categories (coasts, forests, and
mountains) against those elicited by mixed blocks containing all
sub-categories. If scene selective regions are found to respond uniformly
to all scene categories, this would support a modular-based hypothesis.
If, on the hand, these regions are shown to respond heterogeneously to
different scene categories, this would suggest the presence of a larger
scale topographical map of scene / object category.
--
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
As previously notified, we need to take psycmail out of service for a
short period.
This will be at 10am on Wednesday the 6th of March. It will last for an
hour at most.
Then psycmail should restart and then will be running on what we hope will
be more reliable and resilient equipment in the refurbished IT server
room.
Any problems, do contact A.Morland(a)psych.york.ac.uk,
Mark.Hymers(a)ynic.york.ac.uk AND me Gary.Green(a)ynic.york.ac.uk.
Of course, you will not be able to contact us when the email service is
down, but if necessary, just ring me
Gary
--
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 of the psychology email services
We are currently moving data and services off of vulnerable equipment on
to new machines.
To complete this process we need to disable Psycmail for a period of about
an hour. Restarting the psycmail will not require much down time, but
physical relocation of associated servers will take longer.
We would like to do this sometime tomorrow afternoon, Tuesday, or sometime
on Wednesday.
IF the loss of psycmail will inconvenience anyone at any time on Tuesday
afternoon or Wednesday, please let Mark.Hymers(a)ynic.york.ac.uk,
A.Morland(a)psych.york.ac.uk AND Gary.Green(a)ynic.york.ac.uk know. So if you
have a grant deadline, an urgent publication submission time or any other
reason why psycmail migration should be delayed, please let us know.
If no-one objects then we will write again to give as much notice as
possible of the time when psycmail will not be available.
Gary
--
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
This Thursday there will be a project proposal presentation given by David
Watson. The title of the talk is "How are Scenes Represented in the
Brain?".
Please note that the talks will start at the usual time of 4.15 pm but
these talks will take place in Psychology in the Venables room (A202).
Please below for the talk abstract.
Best wishes
Rebecca
Abstract:
Human ventral visual cortex has been noted to contain regions showing
selectivity for higher level visual objects categories – including faces,
body parts, inanimate objects, and place scenes. A key question in this
area is whether such regions may best be regarded as discrete modules with
no finer internal structure and not belonging to any wider overarching
structure, or whether such regions may exist as points along a wider
topographical map of object category.
The current project aims to investigate this question within the context
of cortical regions responsive to place scenes. It has been shown that
scene images can be categorised along their semantic categories (e.g.
cityscape, forest, coastline, etc.) based on their underlying low-level
visual properties (Oliva & Torralba, 2001). As such, scene category forms
a possible dimension along which scene selective cortical regions could be
organised.
Using fMRI, we propose to compare patterns of cortical activity elicited
by fixed blocks of natural scene sub-categories (coasts, forests, and
mountains) against those elicited by mixed blocks containing all
sub-categories. If scene selective regions are found to respond uniformly
to all scene categories, this would support a modular-based hypothesis.
If, on the hand, these regions are shown to respond heterogeneously to
different scene categories, this would suggest the presence of a larger
scale topographical map of scene / object category.
--
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 Users
There will not be a YNiC seminar today.
Thanks
Rebecca
--
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