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Reminder: Guest Speaker today at 4pm YNiC
by Lauren Welbourne 30 May '19

30 May '19

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: - *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

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This Week at YNiC
by Lauren Welbourne 28 May '19

28 May '19

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

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This week at YNiC
by Lauren Welbourne 20 May '19

20 May '19

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

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This Week at YNiC
by Lauren Welbourne 13 May '19

13 May '19

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

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This Week at YNiC
by Lauren Welbourne 08 May '19

08 May '19

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

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This Week at YNiC (part 2)
by Lauren Welbourne 01 May '19

01 May '19

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

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This Week at YNiC
by Lauren Welbourne 29 Apr '19

29 Apr '19

Hi all This week the MSc projects will begin on both scanners, and will continue for the next 10 weeks, so the scanners will be continually busy over this period. Please be aware that during busy scanning periods it can take longer for data to appear in subject folders, particularly for subjects that have never been scanned before. We will always check that data gets sent, so please *only* contact if an incomplete dataset has come through for a subject e.g. one scan is missing from a scan session. 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

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This Week at YNiC
by Lauren Welbourne 23 Apr '19

23 Apr '19

Hi everyone I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend. There is not much to note this week at YNiC, but please be aware that from next week we will have 10 weeks of MSc project scanning in both GE and Siemens. The restricted booking slots for these scans are marked on the booking system, and are not bookable by any other project. 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

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YNIC Science Issues
by Jonny Smallwood 22 Apr '19

22 Apr '19

Hello everyone, We are holding the next meeting of the YNIC Science Committee on Monday the 29th of April at 2pm. If you have an issues that you would like me to raise for the committee please let me know. Feel free to contact me via email, or to set up a time to chat in person. Jonny -- Jonathan Smallwood, Professor in Psychology / Cognitive Neuroscience Room E008, Department of Psychology, University of York, England. YO10 4PH. Telephone: 01904 324651

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YNiC closure dates
by Lauren Welbourne 18 Apr '19

18 Apr '19

Hi all Just a reminder that YNiC will be closed this Friday 19th and Monday 22nd for the bank holidays. I hope you all enjoy the lovely long weekend! 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

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