Hi all
Please be aware that next week (w/c 3rd June) we have very limited Level 3
availability for signing off safety forms. If you have any participants
being scanned next week that will need a signature you must get these
signed-off no later than Monday afternoon.
You can get the participant safety form printed at reception, and you can
also hand these back to reception once the forms are signed if you have
nowhere safe to store them before the scan. Reception will attach the
signed form to the general consent sheet, which you can collect as normal
on the day of the scan.
It should be noted that it is standard procedure to obtain signatures in
advance of the scan day - we cannot guarantee that booked scans will go
ahead if a signature is not obtained in advance.
We appreciate your understanding in this process, and in the importance of
participant safety over research.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Kind regards
Lauren
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Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
Just a reminder that we have guest speaker Dr Vincent Costa giving a talk
at YNiC this afternoon at 4pm, followed by refreshments. This promises to
be an interesting session, and we encourage you all to attend:
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*Title: *More than a feeling: A comparison of amygdala and ventral striatum
contributions to reinforcement learning
*Abstract:* If you ask a neuroscientist about emotion, they would probably
give you the skinny about every amygdala study ever written. If you ask
them about reward, they would probably give you a syllabus filled with
references to the ventral striatum. But I’ll bet they can’t tell you what
specific computations are computed in the amygdala relative to the ventral
striatum. This is because traditional views of reinforcement learning have
held that the striatum integrates dopaminergic reward prediction errors to
facilitate learning, but have not ascribed a specific role for the
amygdala. After decades of research suggesting the amygdala mainly
contributes to emotion and simpler forms of associative learning,
researchers are just beginning to explore the computational boundaries of
amygdala function. The emerging perspective, which I will discuss, is that
standard accounts of reinforcement learning that emphasize stratal and
cortical contributions, should be revised to include a key role for the
amygdala.
Hope to see you there!
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
I hope you had a good Bank Holiday weekend.
This week we have two talks at YNiC:
1. *Wednesday 29th at 2pm* - project presentation by Dr Daniel
Baker on *"Electromagnetic
indices of spatial summation in visual cortex*"
2. *Thursday 30th at 4pm *- guest speaker Dr Vincent Costa will be
visiting us from Oregon Health & Science University. This promises to be
an interesting session, and we encourage you all to attend:
*Title: *More than a feeling: A comparison of amygdala and ventral
striatum contributions to reinforcement learning
*Abstract:* If you ask a neuroscientist about emotion, they would
probably give you the skinny about every amygdala study ever written. If
you ask them about reward, they would probably give you a syllabus filled
with references to the ventral striatum. But I’ll bet they can’t tell you
what specific computations are computed in the amygdala relative to the
ventral striatum. This is because traditional views of reinforcement
learning have held that the striatum integrates dopaminergic reward
prediction errors to facilitate learning, but have not ascribed a specific
role for the amygdala. After decades of research suggesting the amygdala
mainly contributes to emotion and simpler forms of associative learning,
researchers are just beginning to explore the computational boundaries of
amygdala function. The emerging perspective, which I will discuss, is that
standard accounts of reinforcement learning that emphasize stratal and
cortical contributions, should be revised to include a key role for the
amygdala.
Both talks will take place in YNiC open plan, and will be followed by
refreshments.
We hope to see you there!
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
We have a couple of updates for you this week:
1. We now have new monitors for all of the stimulus PCs, which have a
resolution of 1920x1080, and are capable of 120Hz refresh rate. We will
add instructions next to each stim PC on how to check/change the refresh
rate on your user profile.
2. The centre will be *closed on Monday 27th May*, for the bank holiday.
3. We will be running our next *YNiC user induction this Wednesday 22nd
May at 2pm*. If you are aware of any students/staff that will require
an IT account for YNiC, they must complete a User Induction first.
Please ask them to contact support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up for the
next induction date.
Hope you have a good week!
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
This week we have a Project Presentation at* 4pm on Thursday* in YNiC open
plan, from Dr Magda Sliwinska and Dr David Pitcher on "Investigating how
the parietal cortex contributes to foreign language learning". The talk
will be followed by refreshments.
*IMPORTANT REMINDER: *We will be running clinical scanning on GE tomorrow
(Tuesday 14th May), which will overlap with the MSc scanning on Siemens.
If you are scanning during these sessions please act professionally,
particularly around the reception and MRI corridor.
Hope you have a great week.
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi all
This *Thursday 9th May at 4pm* we have a project presentation from Dr Lisa
Henderson and Dr Elaine van Rijn on "MR correlates of sleep parameters";
the talk will be in YNiC open plan and will be followed by refreshments.
*IMPORTANT:* Please be aware that next Tuesday 14th May we will be running
clinical scanning on GE, which will overlap with the MSc scanning on
Siemens. If you are scanning during these sessions please act
professionally, particularly around the reception and MRI corridor.
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
We have some bonus news for you this week at YNiC:
1. This* Thursday 2nd May at 4pm *we will have two project presentations
from Dr David Pitcher's lab: "TMS investigation of object priming" and "TMS
investigation of face pareidolia". Talks will be held in open plan and
shall be followed by refreshments.
2. As you may be aware we have another Bank Holiday on* Monday 6th May*,
and therefore the Centre will be *closed*.
We hope to see you on Thursday afternoon for the presentations!
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
