Hi All,
I'd like to gather expressions of interest for those those who would be
interested in attending a 'MrVista - Population Receptive Field Mapping'
workshop at YNiC.
For those of you not familiar with mrVista, it is a MATLAB interface for
analysing functional and anatomical MRI data, based on the Vistasoft
toolbox developed by Stanford University, whilst population receptive field
(pRF) mapping is a form of retinotopic mapping, where we compute a model of
pRFs and visual field maps within the visual cortex (Dumoulin, S. O., &
Wandell, B. A. (2008). Population receptive field estimates in human visual
cortex. *NeuroImage*, *39*(2), 647–660. https://www.ncbi.nlm.
nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3073038/).
The aim of the workshop is to familiarise yourself with fMRI analysis using
mrVista and learn how to conduct visual field mapping using the pRF method
- including data collection/running stimuli, structural processing and
segmentation, pre-processing, running the model, localising visual field
maps, and plotting data.
The workshop will run over 3 days at YNiC open plan and each session will
cover both theory and practical. All required data and software will be
supplied.
Dates scheduled are:
*Monday 31st July* 9:30am - 5pm
*Tuesday 1st August* 9:30am - 5pm
*Monday 7th August* 9:30am - 5pm
Please let me know if you are interested in attending or have any
questions. Thanks.
Best,
Marc
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Marc Himmelberg
PhD Student | ESR within NextGenVis ITN
PS/C018, Department of Psychology
University of York
York, YO10 5DD
UK
Hello All,
We will have Rachel Woodall give a presentation about two upcoming projects
this week (4pm Thursday 29th June).
Best wishes
Tony
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Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hello YNIC users,
We are trying to gauge interest in the use of large scale data sets by
users of the imaging centre. There are a growing number of open access data
sets that contain data from large samples of participants with phenotypical
data and a range of brain imaging measures (often resting state as well as
task data). I have added links to two of these data sets that I have had
experience using and publishing data from.
It would be very helpful if users who thought that this kind of data would
be beneficial to their ongoing work could get in contact with me. This
would allow the centre to get a sense of how many people would be
interested in using these types of data.
Thanks,
Jonny
http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/http://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/indi/enhanced/
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Jonathan Smallwood, Reader in Psychology / Cognitive Neuroscience
Room C023, Department of Psychology, University of York, England. YO10 4PH.
Telephone: 01904 324651
