Dear all,
We've just updated the YNiC Data Protection policy which is now available at
https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/information/policies/data-protection
At the same time, there is now a dedicated contact address
(data(a)ynic.york.ac.uk) for handling all data protection and image/CD requests.
We hope this will simplify and speed up future requests and would appreciate
it if everyone could use this address.
Whilst updating the document, we have also revised the "Use of Computer
Facilities" policy to point at the Data Protection policy. The new rules are
available at: https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/information/policies/computer-usage
They are basically the same as the old ones but explicitly require users to
follow the Data Protection Policy (we're apparently required to put this in).
The rules for computer use now read as follows:
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These regulations apply to all computer users (staff, students and visitors) at
YNiC. They are subject to change after the proper notification of users.
1. All users must abide by the University of York's Regulations for use of
computing facilities (http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/aso/ordreg/r11.htm) and
the regulations therein, specifically the use of JANET and SuperJANET,
available directly here (http://www.ja.net/services/publications/policy/aup.html).
2. All users are required to familiarise themselves with the YNiC Data
Protection policy and acknowledge that data must not be removed from YNiC
without express, written permission from the Data Protection Officer of YNiC.
Contact information and the policy are available at
https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/information/policies/data-protection
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Apologies for the tedious nature of this message. Please direct any queries to
data(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Hymers
York Neuroimaging Centre
Two new papers have just been published
Reversible Interactions with para-Hydrogen Enhance NMR Sensitivity by
Polarization Transfer
Ralph W. Adams, Juan A. Aguilar, Kevin D. Atkinson, Michael J. Cowley,
Paul I. P. Elliott, Simon B. Duckett, Gary G. R. Green, Iman G. Khazal,
Joaquín López-Serrano, David C. Williamson
Science vol. 323 pp 1708-1711.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1126/science.1168877
and
Dataviewer3D : An open source, cross-platform multi-modal neuroimaging
data visualization tool.
Andre D. Gouws, Will Woods, Rebecca E. Millman and Gary G R Green.
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics.
http://frontiersin.org/neuroinformatics/paper/10.3389/neuro.11/009.2009/
Doughnuts are available in YNiC to help us celebrate!
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. +44 (0) 1904 435349
fax +44 (0) 1904 435356
mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004
Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN*2009)
http://bccn2009.org/
The Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) strives to be
the major European Conference on Computational Neuroscience and
Neurotechnology. It has grown out of the annual Symposium of the German
National Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience, which has been
held since 2005. Now in its 5th year, organized by the Frankfurt Institute
for Advanced Studies, it has been opened as an international conference. We
expect around 300 international participants from the areas of Cognitive
Science, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Physics, Machine Learning,
Mathematics, Engineering and related fields. Selected abstracts will be
published in the Journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.
The meeting is open for contributions from all relevant areas of
computational neuroscience including, but not limited to:
learning and plasticity, sensory processing, motor control, reward system,
brain computer interface, neural encoding and decoding, decision making,
information processing in neurons and networks, dynamical systems and
recurrent networks, neurotechnology.
This year's meeting will have an emphasis on all aspects of vision.
MAIN MEETING:
30 September - 2 October, 2009
Goethe University,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
PHD STUDENT-SYMPOSIUM:
3 October, 2009
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Frankfurt am Main, Germany
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract submission open: 4 May 2009
Abstract submission deadline: 17 May 2009 Demonstration proposals deadline:
15 June 2009 Notification of acceptance: 13 July 2009 Early registration
closed: 15 August 2009
INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed):
Jozsef Fiser (Brandeis)
Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL)
Gilles Laurent (Caltech)
Klaus Obermayer (Bernstein Center Berlin) Bernstein Award 2009 winner
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
General Chair: Jochen Triesch
Program Chairs: Jörg Lücke, Gordon Pipa, Constantin Rothkopf Demonstrations
Chair: Cornelius Weber Publications Chair: Junmei Zhu Finace Chair:
Cornelius Weber Publicity Chair: Prashant Joshi PhD Student-Symposium Chair:
Cristina Savin Local Arrangements Chair: Gaby Schmitz
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Dr. Gordon Pipa - Email: gpipa(a)mit.edu & pipa(a)mpih-frankfurt.mpg.de
Research fellow at Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT),
Dep. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences &
Massachusetts General Hospital, Dep. of Anesthesia and Critical Care
77 Massachusetts Ave. , Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Building 46-6079 Room 6057
tel. +1-617-324-1881 (office)
tel. +1-617-297-2274 (home)
mobil +1 857-753-7177
Group leader at Max-Planck Inst. for Brain Research Dep. Neurophysiology &
Junior fellow at Frankfurt Inst. for Advanced Studies (FIAS)
Deutschordenstr. 46, 60528 Frankfurt/Main Germany
tel. +49-69-96769-289 (office)
tel. +49-69-96769-231 (lab)
fax. +49-69-96769-327
mobil +49-172-2159944
Dear Users
The YNiC seminar scheduled for this afternoon has been cancelled.
The next YNiC seminar will be during the first week of the summer term.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear Users
This week the YNiC seminar will be given by Katrin Krumbholz from the
Institute of Hearing Research in Nottingham. The title of Katrin's talk is
"Feature processing in the human auditory cortex".
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/neuroscience/contact/a-z/G-L/krumbholz_katrin.p…http://www.ihr.mrc.ac.uk/staff/index.php?id=6
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear Users
The last YNiC seminar of this term (Thursday 19th March) has been left
open so that Users can present work in progress from their neuroimaging
projects.
Does anyone have any exciting/problematic results that they would like
to present next week?
Please let me know if you are interested in volunteering.
Thanks
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear Users,
There is a conference in April (15-16th) in York related to using imaging
technologies such as MRI and PET to image cancers and pathogens. The
conference is being organised by HYMS and The Yorkshire Immunology Group.
Details of the conference are found at,
http://www.york.ac.uk/res/cii/bsi/imaging_conf_BSI.shtml
The deadline for registration is Friday 13th March.
Best wishes,
Aziz.
Dear Users
This week the YNiC seminar will be given by Katrin Krumbholz from the
Institute of Hearing Research in Nottingham. The title of Katrin's talk is
"Feature processing in the human auditory cortex".
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/neuroscience/contact/a-z/G-L/krumbholz_katrin.p…http://www.ihr.mrc.ac.uk/staff/index.php?id=6
Everyone is welcome to attend.
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
Dear all,
On Monday 9th at 16:00 in the YNiC open plan area there will be a
presentation entitled:
"An Introduction to MRI Pulse Programming on GE systems"
The talk will cover a brief introduction to the MRI scanner hardware and
what actually happens when you prescribe a series and press the scan
button. The talk will not include (many) code examples but should be of
interest to anyone who wishes to start working on pulse sequences.
All welcome.
Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Hymers
York Neuroimaging Centre
Dear All,
I am delighted to announce that Tim Andrews and Andy Young have been awarded
a 3-year project grant funded by Wellcome Trust. The title and abstract of
the grant are copied below. I am sure you will all join me in
congratulating Tim and Andy on this award. I would also like to thank them
for all the hard work they have put in to applying multiple times for
external funding. It is reassuring to know and a pleasure to see that all
their efforts have now paid off.
Tony
The Neural Basis of Familiar Face Perception
The aim of this proposal is to understand further the neural processes
involved in the recognition of familiar faces. It is well established that
while people are very good at identifying familiar faces (even from very low
quality images), whereas performance in recognition or matching of
unfamiliar faces is poor. The main objective of this proposal is to compare
and contrast how structural information about familiar and unfamiliar faces
is represented in the human brain using fMRI in combination with recent
developments in computer graphics and image analysis.
Dear Users
This week two Users will be reporting on developments in their MEG projects:
1) Andy Young "Impact of responses on subsequent trials in MEG"
2) Sam Mathias "What are the neural correlates of detecting and naming
the direction of changes in pitch?"
A number of psychophysical experiments have suggested that simply
detecting a change in frequency between pure tones and naming the
direction of pitch shifts rely on separable mechanisms. To my
knowledge, no neuroimaging studies have investigated this directly. In
the presentation I will give a (very) brief outline of the relevant
literature and explain the motivation behind my proposal for an MEG
study to be conducted at YNiC.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear Users
This week's YNiC seminar (5th March) has been left open for any Users
who would like to talk about developments in their neuroimaging
projects. There will be another meeting for reporting progress on 19th
March.
Are there any volunteers who would like to talk about their work on
either 5th or 19th March?
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Perhaps of interest?
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Philip Quinlan E-Mail: ptq1(a)york.ac.uk
Department of Psychology FAX: (01904) 433181
The University of York Tel: (01904) 430000 Ext. 3135
Heslington Direct : (01904) 433135
York
YO10 5DD
U.K.
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Begin forwarded message:

JOBS FOR SENIORS, JUNIORS, AND POSTDOCS
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RESEARCH FACULTY POSITIONS at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and
Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) <http://www.bcbl.eu>
www.bcbl.eu
The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque
Country, Spain) offers senior and junior research staff positions in several
areas: language acquisition, production, multilingualism, neurodegeneration
of language, language and learning disorders and advanced methods for
cognitive neuroscience. The center promotes a rich research environment
without teaching obligations with access to the most advanced behavioral and
neuroimaging techniques, including MRI 3 Tesla, a whole-head MEG system,
four ERP labs, a TMS lab, an eyetracking lab, and several behavioural labs
well equipped, as well as to technical support and research personnel (PhD
and postdoctoral students). The senior positions are permanent appointments
and most likely involving group leading duties. The junior positions have a
term of appointment between 3 and 5 years with the possibility of a tenure
track.
We are looking for experimental scientists with a background in
psycholinguistics and/or cognitive neuroscience neighbor areas for the
content areas and physics and/or engineers for the methodological areas. All
interested in undertaking research in the fields described in
<http://www.bcbl.eu> www.bcbl.eu (research).
Candidates should have a strong publication track record. A track record in
supervising PhD students would be welcomed.
Applications should include:
(i) a curriculum vitae.
(ii) a list of publications.
(iii) the names of two referees who would be willing to write letters of
recommendation.
(iv) examples of published work.
(v) a cover letter describing research interests.
For more information about the positions and how to apply please check the
web page <http://www.bcbl.eu> www.bcbl.eu and click on JOBS.
For information about the positions, please contact Manuel Carreiras (
<mailto:m.carreiras@bcbl.eu> m.carreiras(a)bcbl.eu).
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POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and
Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) <http://www.bcbl.eu>
www.bcbl.eu
The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque
Country, Spain) offers 2-3 year postdoctoral positions in several areas:
language acquisition, production, multilingualism, neurodegeneration of
language, language and learning disorders and advanced methods for cognitive
neuroscience. The center promotes a rich research environment without
teaching obligations with access to the most advanced behavioral and
neuroimaging techniques, including MRI 3 Tesla, a whole-head MEG system,
four ERP labs, a TMS lab, an eyetracking lab, and several behavioural labs
well equipped, as well as to technical support.
We are looking for experimental scientists with a background in
psycholinguistics and/or cognitive neuroscience neighbor areas for the
content areas and physics and/or engineers for the methodological areas. All
interested in undertaking research in the fields described in
<http://www.bcbl.eu> www.bcbl.eu (research).
Candidates should have a strong publication track record.
Applications should include:
(i) a curriculum vitae.
(ii) a list of publications.
(iii) the names of two referees who would be willing to write letters of
recommendation.
(iv) examples of published work.
(v) a cover letter describing research interests.
For more information about the positions and how to apply please check the
web page <http://www.bcbl.eu> www.bcbl.eu and click on JOBS.
For information about the positions, please contact Manuel Carreiras (
<mailto:m.carreiras@bcbl.eu> m.carreiras(a)bcbl.eu).
Dear Users
This week Silke Goebel will be giving 2 presentations:
1) Feedback from an MEG workshop that was held in Leipzig last year
2) An ASC session on "Investigating Number Processing with MEG - Lost in
(Source) Space".
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear fellow MEG users
It with great sadness that I heard yesterday of the demise of 4D
Neuroimaging corporation.
4D had been producing MEG equipment for 25 years and had been the most
stable of the manufacturers.
Unfortunately the financial situation has hit their funders very hard
and they are no longer able to provide funds such that 4D can continue
trading.
There is an attempt to set up a service division as most of the parts
that comprise a MEG machine are made by third parties. Unfortunately
there is no guarantee that this can be achieved.
We are carefully considering all of the options and contingencies that
will be necessary to keep MEG here in York. I will endeavour to keep you
informed of our progress in doing so.
At the moment the equipment is working well and research and clinical
studies are continuing as normal. Please do not be put off carrying out
an MEG study (yet).
Our thoughts should be with the staff at 4D. All have been laid off
without last months salary, no redundancy or pension. They have been
good to us and I am sorry that the relationship will come to an end
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 Users
This week the remaining MSc students will be giving their project
presentations. Here is a list of working titles and the students who will
be presenting each talk:
The use of illusory visual stimuli to explore human brain connectivity
Dandan Jiang
Kyriaki Mikellidou
Panagiotis Kovanis
Viewpoint dependence and topographical memory, fMR adaptation and
behaviour
Anastasia Pavilidou
Sumyah Al Najashi
Samyogita Hardikar
A comparison of auditory and visual onset interference using MEG:
relevance
to difficulties in speech perception in multi-talker environments.
Gemma Hutchinson
Ruihong Tang
Chloe Zhang
An MEG study of early Broca's area activation during visual word
recognition
Thomas Dixon
Rebecca Atkinson
This session will take place in YNiC from 4-5 pm but may run on past 5
pm, depending on the duration of the talks and questions.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
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
You will be pleased to hear that all systems are working here at YNiC
following the power cut yesterday. There was slight delay in getting the
scanner back on this morning because I couldn't find the fuse!
I would like to publicly thank Mark Hymers for the sterling work he did
last night in bringing all the systems back on-line so quickly and
efficiently. The power cut was a good test of all our systems here and,
it seems, that we have not lost any data or emails. Of course cluster
jobs will need to restarted.
Gary
--
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
We have an interesting day in YNiC.
The Chancellor of the University is visiting at 2pm and then at 4pm we
have the poject presentations by the Masters students. Do come along to
both. The Chancellor has asked to meet users and I am sure that you will
be keen to hear about the new exciting plans for projects this year on
the Masters course.
Here is a list of working titles and the students who will be presenting
each
talk:
Does language modulate activity in motion perception area V5?
Caroline Jennings
Gina Humphries
Katherine Newling
Yiwen Tan
The neural basis of familiar face recognition from fMR adaptation
Ajay Hallai
Nick Arthur
Emma Pagett
Investigating semantic cognition (TMS)
Jamie O'Sullivan
Marie Kirk
Investigating semantic cognition (Neuropsychology)
Jen Wathan
This session will take start at 4 pm in YNiC. The talks may run on past
5 pm, depending on the duration of the talks and questions.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
--
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
Hi,
This evening there was a major power outage affecting YNiC. The Science
Park and parts of the University were affected.
Most systems were taken down in a co-ordinated manner during the period
which the UPSes provided power and we believe that most user-visible
systems are now up and running again. It is possible, however, that
some areas have been overlooked or that there may be lingering problems.
Please let the DSO know if this is the case and they will bring it to
the attention of the right staff to deal with it.
Any cluster jobs running at the time of the outage will be cleared and
will need to be re-run. Please note that we do not intend to bring the
cluster up again until tomorrow morning at the earliest and there may be
some delay in getting the whole cluster running again.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Hymers
York Neuroimaging Centre
I thought some of you may be interested in this paper
The Coding of Color, Motion, and Their Conjunction in the Human
Visual Cortex
Kiley Seymour,Colin W.G. Clifford,Nikos K. Logothetis, and Andreas
Bartels
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(09)00544-2
Silvia Gennari
Department of Psychology
University of York
York, YO10 5DD
United Kingdom
Dear Users
This week MSc students will be giving their project presenations. Here
is a list of working titles and the students who will be presenting each
talk:
Does language modulate activity in motion perception area V5?
Caroline Jennings
Gina Humphries
Katherine Newling
Yiwen Tan
The neural basis of familiar face recognition from fMR adaptation
Ajay Hallai
Nick Arthur
Emma Pagett
Investigating semantic cognition (TMS)
Jamie O'Sullivan
Marie Kirk
Investigating semantic cognition (Neuropsychology)
Jen Wathan
This session will take start at 4 pm in YNiC. The talks may run on past
5 pm, depending on the duration of the talks and questions.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
In one hours time
do come
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Dear colleagues
This week we will discuss the design of a set of MEG and fMRI
experiments that could be used to form the basis of a 'gold-standard'
dataset that could be used to compare and contrast current MEG analysis
techniques as well allow the testing of future analysis algorithms.
Andy Young has proposed that we start this exercise by collecting data
that would primarily activate sensory cortices as one should be able to
predict the outcome. The aim would be to collect data in as 'perfect' a
manner as possible and would include the recording of eye movements, EOG
and ECG signals. The specific design of the experiments will be
discussed this Thursday at 4pm. We will also discuss how we will use a
suite of analysis tools to examine different source localisation and
reconstruction methods. Examples of how this could be achieved will be
presented by members of the YNiC team but the idea is that an analysis
task-force would be encouraged to tackle the data.
One of the aims is to use this data to refine our data analysis and
statistical methods. We hope this will lead to clear guidelines as to
the 'best' way to approach MEG experimentation and source analysis. The
outcomes will determine how we develop the analysis software framework
and will, hopefully, result in even clearer documentation for users as
well as publications.
Do come and contribute. All welcome
Gary
--
Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
Dear colleagues
This week we will discuss the design of a set of MEG and fMRI
experiments that could be used to form the basis of a 'gold-standard'
dataset that could be used to compare and contrast current MEG analysis
techniques as well allow the testing of future analysis algorithms.
Andy Young has proposed that we start this exercise by collecting data
that would primarily activate sensory cortices as one should be able to
predict the outcome. The aim would be to collect data in as 'perfect' a
manner as possible and would include the recording of eye movements, EOG
and ECG signals. The specific design of the experiments will be
discussed this Thursday at 4pm. We will also discuss how we will use a
suite of analysis tools to examine different source localisation and
reconstruction methods. Examples of how this could be achieved will be
presented by members of the YNiC team but the idea is that an analysis
task-force would be encouraged to tackle the data.
One of the aims is to use this data to refine our data analysis and
statistical methods. We hope this will lead to clear guidelines as to
the 'best' way to approach MEG experimentation and source analysis. The
outcomes will determine how we develop the analysis software framework
and will, hopefully, result in even clearer documentation for users as
well as publications.
Do come and contribute. All welcome
Gary
--
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,
Next week's External Seminar Speaker at the Institute of Psychological Sciences (IPS), University of Leeds is:
Prof. Michael Petrides, Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit at the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Canada. The title of his talk is: "Functional specialization for memory within the lateral frontal cortex".
The talk is on Wednesday, February 4 at 4:00 pm in Room G.17 in the IPS and will be followed by a wine reception at the foyer of the Institute. All are welcome.
All the best,
Katerina
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Dr. Ekaterini Klepousniotou
Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuropsychology
Institute of Psychological Sciences
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK
Tel: +44-(0)113-343 5716
Fax: +44-(0)113-343 5749