Dear all,
this is just a quick mailing to advertise a YNiC ASC on Wednesday May
14th. It will be chaired by Piers Cornelissen and will be on the subject
of his MEG priming study.
Nearer the time, Piers will forward an agenda. And as before, the
session will take place in Psychology B020, at 4pm. Please come along
and join in the discussion.
Following the YNiC ASC, there will hopefully be a short digest of the
session emailed to ynic-users.
Thanks,
Michael
--
Dr Michael Simpson
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
Innovation Way
York
YO10 5DG
Tel: 01904 567614
Web: http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
Dear Users
This week's seminar (4 pm at YNiC) will be given by Matthew Brett from
the CBU at the University of Cambridge.
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matthew.brett/
The title of his talk will be "Finding and using regions of interest".
Everyone is welcome to attend and there will be wine and soft drinks
available after the talk.
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
Current Directions in Psychological Science Vol 17 (2) April 2008
is a special issue entitled The interface between neuroscience and
psychological science
subtitle A Sun Reader's Guide to Head Magnetics
so very good for those (like me) who dont want to read the proper literature.
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Philip Quinlan E-Mail: ptq1(a)york.ac.uk
Department of Psychology FAX: (01904) 433181
University of York Tel: (01904) 430000 Ext. 3135
Heslington Direct : (01904) 433135
York Telex: 57933 YORKUL
YO10 5DD
U.K.
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Dear all,
the more observant of you may have noticed that there have been a number
of changes to the Doc wiki recently. In particular there are now six
areas about which there is documentation:
https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/docwiki/MEGFrontPagehttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/docwiki/MRIFrontPagehttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/docwiki/ITFrontPagehttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/docwiki/Miscellaneoushttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/docwiki/TechnicalInfohttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/docwiki/YNiCGlossary
There has also been a little bit of tidying up here and there. In
particular, the MEG Front Page was getting rather long. Don't panic, we
haven't deleted everything! The re-organisation just means that the
documentation for MEG now has five separate pages. These pages are
linked from the MEG Front Page, and are on the following areas;
Establishing Key Parameters; Processing Epoch Data; MEG Data
Visualisation; Sensor Space Analysis; Source Space Analysis.
As ever, there may have been an odd error in the re-edit. If you spot
any errors, please email <support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk> and let us know the
problem.
With thanks,
Michael
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Dr Michael Simpson
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
Innovation Way
York
YO10 5DG
Tel: 01904 567614
Web: http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
Dear All,
I am forwarding a message from Theresa Jones, who is a highly motivated
second-year student. As you can read in her message, she is keen to gain
research experience at the imaging centre. She can only help during this
term, because she has work organized over the summer vacation.
Could you please email her directly if you have anything for her to do?
Thanks
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: tej500(a)york.ac.uk [mailto:tej500@york.ac.uk]
Sent: 25 April 2008 13:59
To: arm501(a)york.ac.uk
Subject: Research experience
Hi just a qucik email following my supervisor meeting. I'm really keen to
get involved in some of the research going on in the neuroimaging centre. If
you could ask around if anyone needs any sort of help I would be very
grateful! Many thanks,
Theresa Jones
Dear Users
This Thursday (24th April) there will be a seminar at YNiC from 4-5 pm
about "Hyperpolarised gas MR physics and engineering".
The speaker is Dr. Jim Wild from the University of Sheffield:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/medicine/staff/wild.html
All are welcome and drinks will be available afterwards.
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
We are planning the content of the YNiC Thursday seminars during the
summer term.
There are already some interesting external speakers lined up (please
see below):
8th May: Matthew Brett, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
University of Cambridge.
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matthew.brett/
15th May: Ekaterini Klepousniotou, University of Leeds
http://www.psyc.leeds.ac.uk/people/ekaterini/index.htm
29th May: Jonathan Peirce, University of Nottingham
http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/research/vision/jwp/home.html
We also hope to secure another speaker for 26th June.
For the other sessions that are still available we would like to run
journal clubs and internal User presentations. We invite Users to
suggest journal articles that they would like to present as part of a
series of journal clubs. The available dates for the summer term are:
1st May
22nd May
5th June
12th June
19th June
Please let me know if you have a journal article that you would like to
present.
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 Thursday (24th April) there will be a seminar at YNiC from 4-5 pm
about "Hyperpolarised gas MR physics and engineering".
The speaker is Dr. Jim Wild from the University of Sheffield:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/medicine/staff/wild.html
All are welcome and drinks will be available afterwards.
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
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Dear all,
this is just a reminder of the YNiC ASC tomorrow, which Quentin
Summerfield will be chairing, on the subject of Auditory fMRI. It will
take place in Psychology B020 at 4.30pm Thursday 27th March. The agenda
will be as follows:
* Rebecca Millman will start the session with a presentation on Safety
and Practical Issues relating to Auditory fMRI.
* Quentin Summerfield will then make a presentation on his previous
experiences of fMRI at Nottingham.
* Andre Gouws will then make a presentation about Technical Issues
relating to Auditory fMRI.
* A discussion about possible ways forward in York will follow.
Thanks,
Michael
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Dr Michael Simpson
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
Innovation Way
York
YO10 5DG
Tel: 01904 567614
Web: http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
Dear Colleagues
FYI
Gary
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Eeglablist] MBL Neuroinformatics 2008
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:38:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Diane Whitmer <dwhitmer(a)biomail.ucsd.edu>
To: eeglablist(a)sccn.ucsd.edu
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:51:06 -0400
From: Catherine Hemmerdinger <catherineh(a)mbl.edu>
To: catherineh(a)mbl.edu
Subject: Neuroinformatics 2008
This is a gentle reminder follow-up e-mail to the e-mail copied
below. Thanks for your help.
We write to inform you of the opportunity for your graduate students,
post-docs and colleagues to participate in the MBL special topics
course "Neuroinformatics" , described at the link below, devoted to
neuronal data analysis and modeling with an emphasis on signal
processing and statistics. This course attracts leaders in the field
to teach a unique and intensive schedule. In addition, faculty and
students have numerous opportunities for informal discussion and to
analyze real data sets. We believe that the educational experience
and the ability to network with leading scientists from many
institutions, provided by this course, is not available at any single
home institution.
Substantial financial aid is available to defray the cost of tuition.
Neuroinformatics
Course Dates: August 16 - 31, 2008
Directors: Partha Mitra, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
David Kleinfeld. UC San Diego
Location: Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole MA
* Application Deadline: April 11, 2008 *
http://www.mbl.edu/education/courses/special_topics/neufo.html
This course contains pedagogical lectures on basic statistical
techniques as well as focussed mini-workshops on specific
neuroscience topics where applications of these techniques are
critical.
Thank you in advance for passing on this information. Based on
comments from alumni this educational experience has had a profound
effect on their scientific career.
Sincerely,
Partha Mitra
David Kleinfeld
VISIT OUR WEB SITE:
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Marine Biological Laboratory
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Woods Hole, MA 02543
tel: (508) 289-7340
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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
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
--
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
--
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."
--
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.
--
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
--
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
--
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
--
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
--
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
FYI
We are now accepting applications for the 2008 UCLA Advanced
Neuroimaging Summer School, to be help July 14-25, 2008 in Los
Angeles, CA. For more information and to apply for the course, please
visit:
http://www.poldracklab.org/nitp2008
Cheers,
Russ
---
Russell A. Poldrack, Ph.d.
Associate Professor
Wendell Jeffrey and Bernice Wenzel Term Chair in Behavioral Neuroscience
UCLA Department of Psychology
Franz Hall, Box 951563
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563
phone: 310-794-1224
fax: 310-206-5895
email: poldrack(a)ucla.edu
web: www.poldracklab.org
Dear all,
this is just a quick mailing to advertise a YNiC ASC on March 19th. It
will be on the subject of Auditory fMRI, and will be chaired by Quentin
Summerfield. Should you want to contribute anything to the agenda,
please email Quentin in advance <aqs1(a)york.ac.uk>. Otherwise, simply
come along and join in the discussion. As before, a short digest of the
YNiC ASC will be emailed to ynic-users a few days after the session.
Nearer the time, Quentin will forward an agenda (i.e. once it has been
established). And as before, the session will take place in Psychology
B020, at 4pm.
Thanks,
Michael
--
Dr Michael Simpson
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
Innovation Way
York
YO10 5DG
Tel: 01904 567614
Web: http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
Hello all,
Just a reminder and a little more information about this Thursday's
Seminar at YNiC. Mark has prepared an introduction to Unix that I will
do my very best to translate into something we mere mortals can
understand. This week we'll be covering some of the generic basics,
including the permissions problem I know has been an issue of late.
There'll also be information on some simple command line tools and the
basics of scripting.
Next week we'll be looking at YNiC specific information, including some
useful hints and tips that will hopefully help to save you time and
blood pressure.
Thanks,
Sam