On Friday October 27th at 12:15 we are launching the “Cogs” discussion
group at YNiC.
Cogs runs alongside existing YNiC events and is intended to help build an
inclusive research culture by welcoming people to the centre and talking
about new and exciting ideas in cognitive neuroscience.
This could include talking about recent papers or new tools, but beyond
that we’re pretty open-minded, so the first meeting will be a chance to
share your thoughts on the format and what we can do to make it work best
for you.
Cogs is open to everyone with an interest in cognitive neuroscience
research, whether that’s undergraduates or masters students running
projects at YNiC, PhD students, postdocs, academic staff and the YNiC team.
This semester Cogs sessions will start at 12.15 on alternate weeks
Semester 1, Week 5, October 27th 12.15 Inaugural welcome and discussion
Further dates this semester - presenters/topics to be announced in due
course (let us know if you want to present, now or in the future)
Semester 1, Week 6, November 10th 12.15
Semester 1, Week 8, November 24th 12.15
Semester 1, Week 10, December 8th 12.15
This timetable will be reviewed at the end of the semester, so let us know
if it works/doesn't work for you and we'll try to take that into account.
Tom (YNiC Community Coordinator) & Beth (Co-Director, YNiC)
Email cogs(a)ynic.york.ac.uk with your thoughts and suggestions for
topics/presenters.
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Dr Tom Hartley (Senior Lecturer)
Dept. of Psychology, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK
+44 1904 322903
https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~th512 <http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~th512>
https://www.york.ac.uk/psychology/staff/faculty/th512/
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Hi Everyone,
We have our YNiC seminar tomorrow at 4pm. *Dr Arianna Moccia *will be
presenting her talk titled: *How do we select memories? Goal-states and
consequences of the pre-retrieval control of episodic memory.*
We really hope to see everyone at YNiC! If you are unable to attend the
talk in person, you can catch it on zoom using the following link:
https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96762553290?pwd=UEluT1lMd3V5azY5YzNmWkJCV1VTdz…
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96762553290?pwd%3…>
.
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow!
Many thanks,
Jennifer
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Jennifer Ashton, PhD
Senior Research Technician
York Neuroimaging Centre
Working days: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
There's a MATLAB workshop bring run next week by the Research Coding Club
just round the corner from YNiC. It will be presented by Mike Croucher,
Customer Success Engineer at MathWorks. You can register using the Google
Form below if you'd like to attend.
Thanks
Joe
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Hi All,
In DPIA_183, we now have approval to store YNIC data on University servers
(not just YNIC servers). Version 3 (attached) replaces version 2, and it
will appear on the YNIC forms website
<https://www.york.ac.uk/psychology/research/york-neuroimaging-centre/forms/>
shortly.
Best wishes,
Fiona
Hi all,
Dr Arianna Moccia will be presenting her talk entitled: *How do we select
memories? Goal-states and consequences of the pre-retrieval control of
episodic memory*
We really hope to see everyone at YNiC! The talks will take place *next
Wednesday (the 25th of October) at 4pm*. If you are unable to attend the
talk in person, you can catch it on zoom using the following link:
https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96762553290?pwd=UEluT1lMd3V5azY5YzNmWkJCV1VTdz…
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96762553290?pwd%3…>
.
Quick reminder that all our upcoming seminar talks are on our YNiC seminar
calendar:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y19mZDNiNjNhY2Y4NzNiZDVkYzhhZD…
We look forward to seeing you then!
Becky
Selective retrieval means picking specific memories out of many encoded
traces to
inform present actions. To do so, control processes need to act prior to
the point of retrieval.
Neuroimaging has shown that we can select memories in this way, but little
is known about the
factors and mechanisms that enable pre-retrieval selection in episodic
memory. We tested this in
a first set of electrophysiological studies. Results showed that internal
control modified
recollection-related ERPs – the left parietal old/new effects – when the
external retrieval cues
overlapped with targeted traces. Goal-related effects arising from
comparing ERPs elicited by the
new items also tracked cue overlap before recollection was complete,
indicating that control was
engaged prior to retrieval. But how is selection achieved during retrieval?
Using multivariate
pattern analysis in these two datasets, we showed that study phase neural
patterns matching the
current retrieval goal were reinstated before the retrieval cues were
presented, indicating that
study context was reinstated in preparation to retrieve targeted
information. A final study using
fMRI to investigate selective retrieval in the brain showed that internal
goals alone modified
activation and neural representations of task-relevant features in
content-specific regions. Goal-
directed preparatory reinstatement of study context was detected in both
domain-general control
regions and content-specific regions. However, while activation in domain
general areas
predicted subsequent memory performance, goal-directed reinstatement did
not do so
significantly, suggesting that further, generic control mechanisms may
support readiness to
remember sought-for episodic information.
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Rebecca Lowndes
Research Technician
York Neuroimaging Centre
Dear all,
Beth, myself, and all the YNiC staff are working hard to ensure YNiC is
an open and inclusive environment to conduct amazing cognitive
neuroscience research. Part of that is reviewing a lot of our current
policies and making changes where we think it will help.
One current bottleneck for accessing the MRI scanner is the need for all
"operator-covered", bookable slots to have two YNiC staff acting as
operators. This severely limits the number of hours we can make
available on the booking system. When YNiC provides both operators,
groups do not need to provide an operator but many groups already have
someone who is at least level 0 trained. We are looking to get even
more YNiC researchers trained up to reduce this bottleneck and thus make
more "operator-covered" bookable slots available.
To increase bookable hours, we are moving to a system where YNiC ensures
one YNiC staff as operator. This means, by default, you will be expected
to provide one level 0 trained individual (usually the person running
the study), to ensure we have at least one level 0 and one level 1
individual present at all scans (in line with existing policy). This
will increase the number of operator-covered bookable hours per week
from ~10 - ~16hours. Note, if your lab can provide at least a level 1
and level 0 operator, you are still able to book the MRI scanner outside
of these hours.
We believe this shouldn't affect any projects that are currently
running, but please get in touch if this is not the case. For future
projects, you will be expected to provide a level 0 trained individual
by default. If you cannot do this, then this shouldn't prevent you from
scanning - get in contact with us and we can work something out. The
only real change is we are moving from two YNiC staff by default (with
exceptions when the researcher is level 0 trained) to one YNiC staff by
default (with exceptions when the researcher isn't level 0 trained).
Finally, all supervisors of MSci projects that are about to start
scanning will be emailed directly by a YNiC staff member to ask what
support they need. Please respond to this email as soon as possible so
that we can ensure these projects run as smoothly as possible.
I hope this change, and the rationale for making the change, are clear.
Please get in contact with me and Beth if this is not the case, or you
have specific concerns about how this change might impact your research.
Best wishes,
Aidan
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York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC) Directors
Prof Beth Jefferies - Co-Director for Research
Dr Aidan Horner - Co-Director for Strategy & Operations
https://www.york.ac.uk/psychology/research/york-neuroimaging-centre/
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