Contrary to my previous email, I will be practising my EPS talk
tomorrow (Tuesday) at 4.30 in YNiC.
'The neural basis of the right visual field advantage for visual word
recognition' by Ellis, Barca, Cornelissen, Simpson, Urooj and Woods.
Andy
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Professor Andy Ellis
Department of Psychology
University of York
York YO10 5DD
England
Tel. +44 (0)1904 433140
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/people/biogs/awe1.html
Dear Colleagues
Angel Nevado will be leaving soon to take up a position in Madrid. To
celebrate his success in obtaining his prestigious new position and to
thank him for all of his contributions whilst he has been working in
York, there will be celebratory drinks and a dinner on Wednesday evening.
Drinks will be served at YNiC from 5pm on Wednesday.
The dinner will be at the ASK restaurant at about 8pm that same evening.
If you wish to attend, please email me
Gary
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954
Dear colleagues
Today there will be a new project presentation by Cindy Hagan on
'Crossmodal Integration of Tone of Voice'
4pm, YNiC Open Plan area
New project proposal seminars are an opportunity to contribute to the
design and implementation of the science programme at YNiC. Users are
required to make a presentation as part of the application process. All
welcome Refreshments wil be provided
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The next seminar will be
'The neural basis of the right visual field advantage for word recognition'
by
Andy Ellis, Laura Barca, Piers Cornelissen, Michael Simpson, Uzma Urooj
& Will Woods
on Tuesday the 18th of March at 4.30pm
in the YNiC open plan area
All welcome
Refreshments will be provided
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954
Dear colleagues,
We will have a seminar on next wednesday, 12th March about medical image
analysis by Dr. Lee Harrison, UCL. We would like to invite you and your
group members to join the seminar. The detail of the seminar is as
follows. Please could you circulate this email to your group members,
and we welcome every one to join the seminar.
Best regards,
Fan Zhang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Group,
Computer Science Department,
University of York, UK
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Lee Harrison (University College London)
Title: "Spatial models of functional magnetic resonance images"
11:15AM - 12:30AM, 12th March, Wednesday in Room CS103, Computer Science
Building
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"I will talk about Bayesian spatial models of fMRI time-series data. In
particular, we use a weighted graph Laplacian (WGL) to partition a brain
volume into computationally manageable segments, using an isoperimetric
partitioning algorithm (Grady 2006). Data from each segment is then entered
into a 2-level general linear model (GLM) with matrix-variate normal
densities over likelihood and prior at the 1st and 2nd levels. The spatial
covariance matrix of the prior over voxels is given by the heat kernel of a
WGL and all parameters and hyperparameters e.g. controlling dispersion of
the heat kernel, are optimized using an EM algorithm with Fisher-Scoring
ascent scheme. The benefits of this approach are that GLM parameters have
an explicit and (generally) non-stationary spatial model. This allows
formal model comparison of different hypotheses about how data are
generated, e.g. from a stationary or non-stationary spatial process."
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954
Dear colleagues,
_Auditory stimulus delivery in fMRI._
This ASK session will be held at 4:30 pm on Thursday the 27th of March.
This is a change from the original scheduling of Wednesday the 19th of
March. We will confirm the venue, but hope to host the session in B020
as before.
Remember that these sessions are intended to be a forum where you can
air your concerns, share your expertise and request a wish list for
solutions to be provided at (not necessarily by!) YNiC.
We hope to see you there.
Regards,
Andre'
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Andre Gouws
User Support Manager
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 435328
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Welcome to 'Brain Awareness Week 2008'! - an annual opportunity for
neuroscientists across the globe to focus on celebrating and communicating
progress in brain science to the public. Coordinated in the UK by the
European Dana Alliance for the Brain
(www.edab.net <http://www.edab.net/> ), one of the events is...
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National Brain Science Writing Prize 2008. In collaboration with EDAB,
At-Bristol and Focus magazine, the BNA is launching a competition this
week to find the best brain communicators. Could you write a
newspaper-style article celebrating the amazing world of brain science?
To find out more, contact:
www.youramazingbrain.org <http://www.youramazingbrain.org/> .
Closing date for entries: 30th June, 2008.
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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
Last week we held a YNiC Thursday seminar on using Unix on the Macs. The
attendance was quite low suggesting that Users probably had enough
knowledge on this topic for them to be able to do what they needed at
that level of computing. The original idea was that the session would
continue this week but as we have had apologies even from those who had
attended last week, it seems that we should not hold today's seminar.
So, NO seminar today.
Next week there will be a new project presentation, 4pm, Thursday the
13th, YNiC open plan.
All welcome
Gary
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954
Dear colleagues
As you know we have been encouraging users to use their 'scratch' disc
space for temporary files and as a workspace for intermediate analysis.
We monitor the total usage of this space daily and it is growing very
rapidly. We predict that this space will run out in a few days if we do
not act. The majority of the usage is by just a few users but, please,
if you have a large amount of data/information in scratch, can you look
at it and endeavour to delete anything that is redundant. If we do not
do this then the systems will fail.
One way of getting around these problems is to use a group space for
your project. Group scratch is not used much and is an efficient way of
sharing information without it having to be duplicated by each user,
within a group, in their own scratch space. If your project does not
have a group scratch directory then please email it-support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
thanks
Gary
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954
Dear Colleagues
MEG is now up and running again. You can now book your MEG sessions
again through Claire.
It looks as though the Polhemus failed due to a fault in an serial line
isolator. So the whole system failed due to a £5 component. Sorry!
While we were waiting for a delivery of a new Polhemus system and the
engineeer, the YNiC team took the opportunity to reorganise the MEG
equipment room. The equipment and cables have been tidied, labelled and
organised. Please do not change anything in the equipment room as there
is now actually no need to change cables or equipment.
The camera has also been moved in the MSR (magnetically shielded room)
and it is now possible to monitor your subjects during an experiment
even if you are using the large screen. Please remember to tell your
subjects that they are being monitored.
Happy MEGing
Gary
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954
Dear colleagues
Today we are being visited by the VC, the pro-VC for research and Sir
David Cooksey. David Cooksey wrote the recent government report on medical
research which has resulted in the setting up of the National Institute of
Medical Research and the integration of the NHS R&D programme with the
MRC. His current main interests are concerned with translational research.
If ...., you were thinking of visiting YNiC yourself today then it would
help us if you happened to be present in open plan between 1.30 and 2.15
with some interesting images on the screen. If anyone is doing experiments
within MRI or MEG then please be prepared to have visitors ask some
questions about what you are doing. Of course I cannot predict if they
will visit, whether they will be on time or whether they will actually
stop as we walk through open plan.
thank you
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
