Dear all,
We would like to inform you of an upcoming talk,
this *Monday 3 June at 12:30 in room PS B204*,
organised by the Psycholinguistics Research
Group<https://wiki.york.ac.uk/display/PRGCAL/PRG-cal+Home>(PRG).
Elise Lesage<http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/people/dr-students/lesage-el…>,
from the University of Birmingham, will be presenting her talk entitled
"Language and the cerebellum". Elise combines eye-tracking, rTMS, fMRI and
behavioural methods to study the role of the cerebellum in language and
cognition.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Best wishes,
Kirsten and Huarda, PRG organisers.
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Huarda Valdés-Laribi
Early Stage Researcher / PhD Student
Room C104 - Department of Psychology
The University of York
York, YO10 5DD
Dear Users
This Thursday (YNiC open plan from 4.30 pm) there will be an internal
presentation by Philip Quinlan. Philip will be presenting the findings
from one of his fMRI projects on multi-tasking. The title of the talk is
"Neural multi-tasking and the Left Executive Control Network: Preparing
for one task whilst undertaking another".
Abstract: This study was aimed at determining the neural underpinnings
of how people prepare themselves for events cued to take place in the
imminent future. We addressed this in an fMRI setting in which
participants made a speeded judgement (either regarding magnitude or
parity) about each of a sequence of digits. Immediately, prior to each
sequence, a letter either primed participants to expect a task switch
for the last digit or it provided no information about which task to
expect. Performance on the trials prior to the fourth digit as a
function of switch predictability is key. Evidence for task preparation
was found that could not have been due to inhibition of a competing task
set. A network of regions was more active in the predictable than
unpredictable conditions that accords well with the Left DLPFC/Parietal
(Left Executive Control) Network that has been established in
independent resting state connectivity studies.
Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be provided afterwards.
Best wishes
Rebecca
Dear Users
As you will be aware, all the data that is generated using the YNiC
scanners is stored and made available to users in an anonymised format.
The reason we do this is to try and protect participants being
identified with a specific scan and therefore attempt to maintain some
protection of what is ultimately information about the structure and
function of their brain.
Some studies, for good scientific reasons, will be involved in scanning
individuals at other sites and there will be a wish to bring that data
to YNiC for analysis. But please can we ask you to ensure that:
a) you have permission to do so from the remote site's own ethical
governance committee and if necessary their data protection officer. You
should also ensure that the list of people who will analyse that data in
YNiC do have permission to access that data. Permission from YNiC alone
is not sufficient.
b) that YNiC is informed that this data is being stored on our systems.
If we receive a freedom of information request or an enquiry within the
laws of the data protection legislation we cannot respond accurately if
we do not know about it. We are obliged to provide this information. Not
knowing is not a defence.
c) that the data is anonymised. This is critical. No study has
permission to access non-anonymised data on our systems under any
circumstances.
d) No data is transferred to us from outside Europe without specific
permission from the University's data protection office. We would be
happy to help if this is necessary.
We have a duty of care to our participants and their willingness to take
part in studies is related to us treating their data respectfully and
legally.
This is not being issued because we are aware of any current problems at
YNiC but because we have heard of problems at other sites where they
have not taken care about data storage.
Please can I ask everyone to be diligent about these important issues.
Thank you
Gary
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Gary Green
Director
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
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tel. Claire Fox : +44 (0) 1904 435329
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fax +44 (0) 1904 435356
mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004
We will be taking Krish Singh to dinner this evening.
If you would like to join us please let me know
Gary
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
http://www.ynic.york.ac.ukhttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/about-us/people/ggrg
tel. Claire Fox : +44 (0) 1904 435329
Claire,Fox(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
fax +44 (0) 1904 435356
mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004
Dear Users
TODAY, (YNiC open plan from 4.30 pm) there will be a presentation
by Krish Singh from CUBRIC. The title of Krish's talk is "Non-invasive MEG
measures of cortical oscillatory dynamics in health and disease".
Abstract: Magnetoencephalography (MEG) allows the non-invasive
localisation and characterisation of a range of cortical oscillatory
phenomena, which are
increasingly thought to reflect both local and network properties of the
neural populations underpinning different aspects of perceptual and
cognitive function. These studies reveal complex, task-specific and
spatially localised effects, some of which appear to be co-localised with
the BOLD-fMRI response to the same task. In this talk I shall explain some
of the methodology behind these studies and how these human MEG signals
compare with invasive recordings in both animals and humans. The main
focus
will be in looking at how individual differences in oscillatory parameters
such as amplitude and frequency can be related to variations in
perceptual/behavioural task performance and to individual differences in
neurotransmitter concentrations. Finally I will talk about the relevance
of
these studies to clinical conditions such as Epilepsy and Schizophrenia.
Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be provided
afterwards.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
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Dear all,
Just a quick reminder about tomorrow's MEG group meeting, 12:15 in the
A202, where Pat Johnston and Michael Simpson will talk about their work on
face recognition and DSI. Hope you can all make it.
Cheers,
Catta