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.
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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
Dear Users
There will not be a YNiC seminar today.
Thanks
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
FYI
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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
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Dear colleagues,
I would like to bring your attention to the position below.
Alt the best,
Ole Jensen
http://www.neuosc.com
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*Senior Researcher for 'Neuronal Oscillations and Networks' (1,0 fte)
*
*Donders Institute, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging*
*Vacancy number: 30.01.12*
*Closing date: 15 April 2012*
*Responsibilities*
The Neuronal Oscillation group at the Donders Institute for Brain,
Cognition and Behaviour has funding available for a senior researcher
position. The position has a strong research component, but also
includes additional management and teaching responsibilities. The
management tasks involve active participation in structuring the
research group, including supervision of MSc and PhD students (who will
receive senior authorship where applicable). Further, you will
contribute to grant writing. The research responsibilities focus on
investigating the role of oscillatory neuronal activity involved in
shaping the functional architecture of the working brain. This will be
done in the context of advanced cognitive paradigms on attention,
perception and memory. There will be a strong focus on the role of
phase, network interactions and subcortical structures. You will have
the following state-of-the-art equipment to your disposal: MEG, (f)MRI,
EEG combined with TMS, and EEG combined with fMRI. A further aim is to
link structural (e.g. DTI) and functional measurements. You will also
participate in conceptually developing the framework for understanding
the functional role of brain oscillations.
*Work environment*
The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour consists of the
Centre for Cognition, the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging and the
Centre for Neuroscience.
The mission of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging is to conduct
cutting-edge fundamental research in cognitive neuroscience. Much of the
rapid progress in this field is being driven by the development of
complex neuro-imaging techniques for measuring activity in the human
working brain - an area in which the Centre plays a leading role. The
research themes cover central cognitive functions such as perception,
action, control, decision making, attention, memory, language, learning
and plasticity. The internationally renowned centre currently hosts more
than 100 PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from more than 20
countries, offering a stimulating and multidisciplinary research
environment. The centre is equipped with three MRI scanners (7T, 3T,
1.5T), a 275-channel MEG system, an EEG-TMS laboratory, several
(MR-compatible) EEG systems, and high-performance computational
facilities. English is the lingua franca at the centre. You will work
within the Neuronal Oscillations group.
*What we expect from you*
As a candidate for the position, you should have a PhD degree and
several years of experience as postdoctoral researcher in a field
related to cognitive neuroscience. Selection criteria will consider the
record of published research, familiarity with neuroimaging techniques
(fMRI, EEG, MEG, and/or TMS) and supervision experience.
Proficiency in oral and written English is a prerequisite. You are
expected to work in a team, sharing technical know-how and ideas.
*What we have to offer*
We offer you:
- employment: 1,0 fte;
- in addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3%
end-of-year bonus;
- the gross salary will be between EUR3,195 and EUR4,970 (scale 12),
depending on experience;
- salary scale 11 will apply during the first year;
- duration of the contract: 6 years maximum.
Are you interested in our excellentemployment conditions
<http://www.ru.nl/english/arbeidsvoorwaarden>?
*Would you like to know more?*
Further information on:DCCN <http://www.ru.nl/donders>
Further information on:Neuronal Oscillations group <http://www.neuosc.com/>
Dr. Ole Jensen
Telephone: +31 24 3610884
E-mail:ole.jensen@donders.ru.nl <mailto:ole.jensen@donders.ru.nl>
*Applications*
Are you interested?
It is Radboud University Nijmegen's policy to only accept applications
by e-mail. Please send your application,/stating vacancy number
30.01.12/, tovacatures(a)dpo.ru.nl <mailto:vacatures@dpo.ru.nl>, for the
attention of Dr. Ole Jensen, before 15 April 2012.
For more information on the application procedure: +31 24 3611173
Hi everyone,
I am involved in the project P1125 at YNIC. I've been trying to connect through the remote server and, although I can do the connection, when I try to initiate the NX Client for Windows I always get this error:
NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 8348
NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command
NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files
NX> 285 Setting the preferred NX options
ssh: connect to host nirem001.ynic.york.ac.uk port 22: Connection timed out
I'm aware that you guys had a flood, and are encountering some problems. Do you have any idea of when am I going to be able to have access again? I'm a little bit worried because I'm going to a conference next 4th of March and there are still some data that I'd like to analyse.
Best,
Susana Maia
Bolseira de Investigação
Departamento de Psicologia Básica, Universidade do Minho
tel: +351 933290673
Hello all,
Further to the scanning loss details, it would also be very useful to know
to what extent analysis has been interrupted. Obviously this is much
harder to quantify, but an estimate would be very helpful.
If you were planning on using any of the YNiC facilities over the next
month or so, could you let us know:
* What you were working towards (e.g. conference presentation,
publication, thesis etc)
* Roughly how much time you were setting aside for your analysis
* Any upcoming deadlines for ongoing work
Thanks again,
Sam
Hello all,
As part of the insurance and recovery process it would be very helpful to
get an estimate of how much scanning we have lost/will lose due to the
flooding. If you were planing to scan over the next few weeks (including
last week if you hadn't already booked it), could you let me know:
* the project number you want to scan under
* roughly how many hours you want to scan
* what timescale you want to scan over (over the next month)
* which machine you want to scan on.
This will also help us plan for the load we can expect as and when we get
the intermediate service up and running.
Thanks,
Sam
Dear Users
This Thursday the Cognitive Neurosciences MSc students will again be giving
project proposal presentations for their empirical research projects.
Please note that the talks will start at the usual time of 4.15 pm but
these talks will take place in Psychology (B020).
Please below for details of project titles and speakers.
Best wishes
Rebecca
(1) People or Faces - The neural correlates of recognition - Tim Andrews
(fMRI)
GUDER, ZEYNEP
RICE, GRACE
SLEZAK, MARTINA
(2) The hippocampus and anxiety: a structural MRI study using Voxel based
morphometry - Tom Hartley, Liat Levita
BOIS, CATHERINE
PAPAKONSTANTINOU, EVANGELIA
SMYLLIE, EMMA
HEALEY, ANDREW
(3) Approach and Avoidance - neural circuitry of pain and pleasure - Liat
Levita (fMRI)
WALSH, SEAN DANIEL
GREAVES, ASHA MARIE
PEASE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN
ROUND, JASON TONY
(4) The neural basis of Deutsch's speech-to-song illusion - Mark Hymers,
Rebecca Millman
SCHULZE, ANJA
YOUNG, MICHELLIE
LIU, CAN
--
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 Colleagues
A brief update.
The most important thing that happened today is that the 'Complex and
Major Loss' Adjuster visited the site. Tony Morland and I described the
situation and gave him a tour of the Centre. It is clear that we are going
to get considerable support from the insurers, the disaster recovery team
and others.
Some good news:
5 of the 6 'partitions' of the main disc storage area have now been
rebuilt and verified. As this has been done on hardware that could fail,
the data has been written to tape and this has been put in the
fireproof/waterproof safe. We already had a backup - now we have two. They
will be placed in different locations. Backups of psychmail are now back
to the regular four hourly schedule.
The vulnerable partition is with ta data recovery team in Surrey. At this
point we cannot be optimistic or pessimistic. We just do not know whether
this data is recoverable from the discs. We will not know until next
Friday at the earliest.
Work has started on creating a temporary IT server room. Today, we managed
to get our hands on the last 30 3Terabyte discs in the UK that are
compatible with our HP hard disc enclosure. Apparently discs are in very
short supply. No 2 terabyte discs were available at all. This is due to a
flood in Thailand. All the manufacturers have factories within a few miles
of each other!
Extra drying machines have been installed. We have been told that drying
will continue for at least one more week.
I hope you can have a reasonably worry free weekend. It is good to see
some green lights here again on the front of machines.
Gary
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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 Colleagues
You may have just noticed a temporary loss of psych mail. Apologies for that.
It was caused by a temporary routing problem, not a failure of a server or
discs.
At about 18:30 tonight (Thursday), we will have to stop and restart the
mail server. This is so that we can reroute cables to and from a network
switch that has to be physically moved. This should take approximately 45
minutes. It will increase the resilience of the temporary IT service as we
continue to rebuild YNiC. Please accept our apologies for the
inconvenience that will be caused.
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
Many users have contacted the ynic team as they are understandably very
concerned about their data, programs, documents and other critical
material that was stored on the disc arrays at YNiC.
The first thing to say is that all of the raw data (MRI, MEG) is safe.
Everyday we store this material on tape backups. The same is also true of
Users' home and Group/Project home data. The last major complete tape
backup was carried out three days before the calamity.
But we are hoping not to have to resort to recovery from tape. We are
working on forcing the RAID to rebuild itself and this is why we are
closing the psych mail service later today.
In the meantime we have asked for quotations to replace any damaged
equipment.
Some good news (well a tiny bit). Some services are now working eg the
database, RT and other internal services. These will help us in terms of
the recovery plan.
The loss adjustor attended the site this morning and is helping formulate
this plan.
TMS should be available in room 54 on the ground floor of the Biocentre
within 24 hours.
Next update will be tomorrow, Thursday.
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
