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Cricket Nets
by Michael Simpson 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Dear all, as mentioned last year, I am intending to enter a Psychology team into the inter-departmental 'Tinpot' cricket tournament this summer. This is a 'no experienced needed' cricket league, with most departments entering teams that have a combination of experienced and inexperienced players. The only inclusion criteria is that you are Staff or on a postgraduate course, i.e. PhD, MSc. There are 9 - 10 matches between May and August, timed not to coincide with graduation and exams etc. There is a nucleus of a team that has formed at YNiC, but we need more players. We are having an indoor net next Thursday at 6pm, after the Thursday evening seminar at YNiC. No ability needed, after all, I'll be playing ... Please let me know if you are interested to come along. At the moment I've only booked one net, but we can book another if necessary. Also, if you have any kit, including any cricket balls, they'd be welcome (as we have to provide our own kit for indoor nets). If you are interested and can't make it, we'll try and organise some outdoor nets, or a friendly game, before the season starts. However, since the students are on holiday, we thought we'd exploit the availability of the indoor nets now. Best wishes, 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

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Thursday Evening
by Sam Johnson 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Hello all, As part of the revamped Thursday afternoon sessions, at 4pm tomorrow there will be project presentations from people planning studies at YNiC. The following Thursday, the 15th, Andre will be demonstrating some of the features of his new visualisation tool. The intention of these sessions is to encourage dialog so that the whole YNiC user community, including YNiC staff, can share the benefits of their experiences and expertise. As such these sessions will take a variety of forms; journal clubs, project presentations, progress reports, seminars, training and so on. In the near future there will be "friendly" requests for investigators involved in projects to prepare informal progress reports, but in the mean time please do come along and partake of some wine and snacks and see what other people are planning. Thanks Sam

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MRI data processing
by Mark Hymers 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Hi, As some of you will know, due to an interesting issue [0] caused by GE installing an MRI scanner update, we have been having some problems with transferring and processing MRI data recently. Because GE (despite having admitted that this is their fault) are unable to fix this in a timely manner, we've now managed to work around it in house and have processed the backlog of data. Everything up until last week has now been processed and uploaded and last weeks' scans will be processed by the end of today. Apologies for the delay but this came out of nowhere and even diagnosing the problem took quite a bit of time. If anybody thinks that scans they have performed since the start of the year have not been processed, can you please send an email to mri-support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk with details and we'll look into it. Cheers, Mark [0] For Those Who Care About Technical Details The executive summary is that they've changed the two values which represent the Minimum (0028,0108) and Maximum (0028,0109) pixel values in the image from 16 bit signed to 16 bit unsigned. The data which is exported is still 16 bit signed and so this change makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Quite a bit of DICOM code I've looked at will cope with either US or SS for these values but expects them to be consistent with the actual data (which makes sense, if you're expressing a minimum or maximum, it should be done using the same data type as the data). A full dissection of the problem follows: Old DICOM Image (selected tags only): (0028,0103) US 1 # 2, 1 PixelRepresentation (0028,0106) SS 0 # 2, 1 SmallestImagePixelValue (0028,0107) SS 275 # 2, 1 LargestImagePixelValue New DICOM Image (selected tags only): (0028,0103) US 1 # 2, 1 PixelRepresentation (0028,0106) US 0 # 2, 1 SmallestImagePixelValue (0028,0107) US 2211 # 2, 1 LargestImagePixelValue As you can se from the second column, the two bottom tags have changed their Value Representation from SS (Signed Short) to US (Unsigned Short). I've included the tag (0028,0103) because it explains how the actual pixel data is to be interpreted. MR is fixed at 16 bits which leaves two options: signed (2's complement) and unsigned. To quote from the DICOM Standard: Pixel Representation (0028, 0103): Data representation of the pixel samples. Each sample shall have the same pixel representation. Enumerated values: 0000H = unsigned integer 0001H = 2's complement So, the data is still written as signed, whilst the min and max values are written as unsigned. This is, at least in spirit if not letter, a violation of the DICOM standard. Note that although I state that according to the DICOM spec, MR is fixed at 16 bits, the interpretation of those 16 bits isn't fixed. See the tags BitsStored, BitsAllocated and HighBit if you're interested. (In practice, this is usually fixed for MR at 16, 16 and 15 respectively). The fix is to read the value out of the file and hack the relevant VRs back to being a signed integer instead of an unsigned one. The interesting thing is that images processed with Clariview (e.g. the YNiC Structurals which have FL_E in them) still use the signed value. So not only are GE wrong, they're inconsistently wrong too. -- Mark Hymers York Neuroimaging Centre

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Pulvermüller's talk abstract
by Silvia Gennari 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

Dear all, Dr Pulvermuller will be giving a talk on Thursday the 1st of March at 4PM at YNic (tomorrow). Here goes his abstract Early time course of psycholinguistic information access in the brain as revealed by neurophysiological imaging (EEG and MEG) Friedemann Pulvermüller, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK, friedemann.pulvermuller(a)mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk The main stream view in neurophysiological psycholinguistics has been that relatively late components of the brain response with latencies of 300-500 ms reflect higher stages of language processing, such as lexical access, semantic processing and context integration. This view is in contrast with data from psycholinguistics indicating very early psycholinguistic information access. Why, then, would ERP studies reveal late neurophysiological effects, but not the early ones psycholinguistic behavioral work would suggest? As language stimuli are very variable physically and psycholinguistically, the early components of the linguistic brain response, which are both focal and short-lived, may fall victim to the neurophysiological reflection of such stimulus variance [1]. Studies keeping stimulus variance to a minimum [2-3] or using new paradigms and analysis techniques [4-5] reported early (<250 ms) near-simultaneous effects of lexical and semantic processing in word recognition. The talk will discuss these effects, using neurophysiological data to judge linguistic models of the time course of psycholinguistic information access. A neurobiological model will be used to account for both the near-simultaneity of psycholinguistic information access as well as the minimal time delays observed. Distributed cell assemblies with specific cortical topographies binding information about word form and meaning may be the basis of near-synchrony and precise spatio- temporal patterning [5-7]. [1] Pulvermüller, F. (1999). Words in the brain's language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 253-336. [2] Pulvermüller, F., Lutzenberger, W., et al. (1995). Electrocortical distinction of vocabulary types. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 94, 357-370. [3] Pulvermüller, F., Assadollahi, R., & Elbert, T. (2001). Neuromagnetic evidence for early semantic access in word recognition. European Journal of Neuroscience, 13(1), 201-205. [4] Hauk, O., Davis, M. H., Ford, M., Pulvermüller, F., & Marslen- Wilson, W. (2006). The time course of visual word-recognition as revealed by linear regression analysis of ERP data. Neuroimage, in press. [5] Pulvermüller, F. (2005). Brain mechanisms linking language and action. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 6(7), 576-582. [6] Pulvermüller, F. (2006). Word processing in the brain as revealed by neurophysiological imaging using EEG and MEG. In G. Gaskell (Ed.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics (pp. in press). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [7] Pulvermüller, F., & Shtyrov, Y. (2006). Language outside the focus of attention: the mismatch negativity as a tool for studying higher cognitive processes. Progress in Neurobiology, 79, 49-71. Silvia Gennari Department of Psychology University of York Heslington, York YO10 5DD United Kingdom

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MRI participants
by Claire Fox 27 Feb '07

27 Feb '07

I am looking for 6 people to volunteer for MRI, on the 6th (3 people) and (3 people) 9th of March, between 12 and 2pm. Please let me know if our available and if you are already registered on the data base. Thank you * Participants are paid £5.

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YNiC Closing at 5pm today
by Mark Hymers 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

The YNiC open plan area will be closing at 5pm today as we need to perform some IT maintenance which cannot be done with users present. We will open again as normal tomorrow (Friday) morning. Apologies for the short notice. Mark -- Mark Hymers York Neuroimaging Centre

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Friedemann Pulvermuller
by Silvia Gennari 21 Feb '07

21 Feb '07

Dear all, There will be a talk by Friedemann Pulvermüller (MRC-CBU) on Thursday the 1st of March at 4PM at the YNic. Dr. Pulvermüller will be teaching Advanced Neuroimaging to the master students (CNS) earlier in the day and has kindly agreed to give a second talk for a more general audience. Dr. Pulvermüller works in cognitive neuroscience of language and has written extensively on the topic. He has used fMRI, TMS and MEG techniques to ask question about both time course and localization of brain activity during language processing. He has also investigated neuropsychological issues such as aphasia. Here is a link to his website http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/people-pages.php?id=105 Everybody is welcome. Silvia Silvia Gennari Department of Psychology University of York Heslington, York YO10 5DD United Kingdom

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Re Use of the Biocentre facilities at YNiC
by Gary Green 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

Apologies to anyone who this may not concern. We have had another complaint from the receptionist of the Biocentre who is passing on the other tenants views. We are being asked not to use the kitchen facilities to socialise and there should be no more than two people in there at any one time. The other tenants are especially upset as the kettle has been broken and that we are using their coffee amongst other things. As you can imagine this has caused problems as the biocentre rely on the receptionist for catering for meetings. We rely on the goodwill of the receptionists in the Biocentre and problems of this kind could damage the long term benefits we get from working with them. Please can I ask users not to use the kitchen next to reception. There is a kitchen along the corridor in the glassed roof area. DO NOT use other people's milk/coffee/food/cutlery/bowls etc YNiC will put a kettle in the meeting room in the MRI corridor. While we are on the subject I would also like to add that YNIC has visits regularly and the standards of the open plan have started to drop dramatically again, I and other members of the team do not have time to clean up after users on a morning. The cleaners are not here to tidy up coffee cups etc, or rearrange furniture. Please leave the open plan area and desks as you find them ready for the next person. If you have cups with liquid still in you can empty this in the sink in MRI corridor. Please flush the fluids away after you. Thank you -- 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

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Research design in neuroimaging students' project presentations
by Silvia Gennari 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

Dear all, Sorry if you receive this message twice. Masters students in Cognitive Neuroscience will be giving presentations at YNic tomorrow and next Thursday at 4PM. They will present the research they are planning to conduct during the summer. Everyone is welcome. The schedule is as follows Thursday February 15th 4PM - Is it a face or a house? Using binocular rivalry to investigate visual awareness (supervisor: Tim Andrews). Pippa Baird Jenny Cox 4.15PM - Do specialized visual areas really exist in the human ventral stream? (supervisors: Tim Andrews and Tom Hartley) Alex Clarke Phil Pell 4.30PM - Representing actions through language (supervisor: Gennari) Claire Moody (Veronica) Tzu-Hui Chuang Thursday - February 22nd. 4PM - What is the difference between familiar and unfamiliar face perception? (Tim Andrews) Jodie Davies Spyroula Spyrou 4.15PM - Hemispheres and handwriting: an MEG project (Andy Ellis) Nuria Donamayor Alonso 4.30 PM - Localisation of auditory function with fMRI and MEG (Quentin Summerfield) Emma Knowles Sam Matthias 4.45PM -Brain functional connectivity from MEG data (Gary Green) Dave Cole Chris Neale John Griffiths Lisa Brindley Alana James Silvia Gennari Department of Psychology University of York York, YO10 5DD United Kingdom

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Re: project presentations at YNic
by Tim Andrews 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

Hi Silvia, Could you send an email to ynic-users(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to let them know about the MSc sessions on the following Thursdays. Cheers, Tim Silvia Gennari wrote: > Dear all, > > This is just a remainder that the CNS master students' project > presentations is starting this week at YNic on Thursday at 4PM. Here > is a provisional list of presenters for this and next week, please let > me know if there is any problem with the arrangements. > > > Thursday February 15th > > > 4PM - Is it a face or a house? Using binocular rivalry to > investigate visual awareness (supervisor: Tim Andrews). > Pippa Baird > Jenny Cox > > 4.15PM - Do specialized visual areas really exist in the human > ventral stream? (supervisors: Tim Andrews and Tom Hartley) > Alex Clarke > Phil Pell > > > 4.30PM - Representing actions through language (supervisor: Gennari) > Claire Moody > (Veronica) Tzu-Hui Chuang > > > > Thursday - February 22nd. > > > > 4PM - What is the difference between familiar and unfamiliar face > perception? (Tim Andrews) > Jodie Davies > Spyroula Spyrou > > > 4.15PM - Hemispheres and handwriting: an MEG project (Andy Ellis) > Nuria Donamayor Alonso > > > 4.30 PM - Localisation of auditory function with fMRI and MEG > (Quentin Summerfield) > Emma Knowles > Sam Matthias > > > 4.45PM -Brain functional connectivity from MEG data (Gary Green) > Dave Cole > Chris Neale > John Griffiths > Lisa Brindley > Alana James > > > Hope to see you all there. > > > Silvia > > Silvia Gennari > > Department of Psychology > > University of York > > Heslington, York > > YO10 5DD > > United Kingdom > > > > > -- Dr Tim Andrews Department of Psychology University of York York, YO10 5DD UK Tel: 44-1904-434356 Fax: 44-1904-433181 http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ta505/ http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/admissions/cns/

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new web page
by Gary Green 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

A new web page has been added to ynic's user resource section https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/user-resources/conferences-and-abstract-deadlin… It tells you dates of conference and submission times. Entries are automatically deleted once the conference has passed. If you know of any neuroimaging conferences that should be added please send an email to rem(a)ynic.york.ac.uk -- 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

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One day closure of YNiC - 25th January 2007
by Gary Green 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Dear Users On Thursday the 25th of January, 2007, YNiC will be closed for the day. This is so that the YNiC team can review and plan their strategy for the year. We apologise for any inconvenience that this might cause. Later in the year there will be an opportunity for all users to contribute to discussions of the future plans of YNiC. -- Gary Green Director York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park York YO10 5DG tel (+44) (0) 1904 435349 fax (+44) (0) 1904 435356

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[Fwd: BNA National Meeting 2007 - Abstract deadline approaching!]
by Tim Andrews 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Dear All, The British Neuroscience Association are holding a meeting in Harrogate in April. This might be a nice opportunity to present recent results from the YNiC. The deadline for abstract submission is January 31. Tim -------- Original Message -------- Subject: BNA National Meeting 2007 - Abstract deadline approaching! Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:12:33 -0000 From: Allen, Yvonne <Y.Allen(a)LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> Reply-To: bnanews <BNANEWS(a)liverpool.ac.uk> To: BNANEWS(a)liverpool.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BNA News****BNA News****BNA News 19th National Meeting, 1st - 4th April, 2007, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, in association with Neuroscience Ireland Registration and abstract submission is now well underway for the 19th NATIONAL MEETING of the BNA, to be held in association with Neuroscience Ireland this year. Deadline for early registration fee and abstract submission is MIDNIGHT, 31st JANUARY. Don't leave it too late! Only two weeks to go!! There will be: *Nine plenary lectures *Twenty symposia *50 themed poster sessions *Full exhibition with special demonstrations *Welcome Reception *Conference banquet and Party *Café-bar discussions on the public awareness of brain science, and art in neuroscience *Teaching of Neuroscience workshop *Wellcome Trust workshops on careers and grant-holding; Science Careers networking lunch for postgraduate students and post-docs In short, there will be something for everyone at this important event in the BNA calendar. So please, please support the BNA! Registration fees start at only £90 for students and there are generous bursaries available for student BNA members and newly qualified post-docs. Non-members are welcome too, so please circulate this message as widely as possible. Consult the website for all the latest updates and additions to the scientific programme and special events - just follow the link from our homepage (www.bna.org.uk <http://www.bna.org.uk/>). Harrogate is a lively town, full of shops, cafes, bars and restaurants, surrounded by spectacular Yorkshire countryside and close to the cities of York and Leeds. So come and spend a few days Easter break in this truly wonderful location. See you in Harrogate! **************************** Dr Yvonne Allen Samantha Potts BNA Executive Secretary Administrator -- Dr Tim Andrews Department of Psychology University of York York, YO10 5DD UK Tel: 44-1904-434356 Fax: 44-1904-433181 http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ta505/ http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/admissions/cns/

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FreeSurfer
by Tom Hartley 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Hi all, Does anyone have any experience of using freesurfer at YNiC? Is it supported? Is it possible to run freesurfer on the cluster? http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki Best wishes, Tom Hartley

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Ethics submissions
by Gary Green 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

Dear All, YNiC has introduced an on-line system for managing the submission and review of applications to the YNiC Research Ethics Committee. To use the system effectively, it is important that applicants please read the document entitled 'Guidance on preparing a submission to the YNiC REC' which can be downloaded from the YNiC web site at: https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/information/application/so-you-want-to-use-the-… That guidance explains what documents constitute an ethics application. It will be important that you submit the correct documents to the on-line system, if your application is to be processed efficiently. With thanks best wishes, Gary Green, Director YNiC Quentin Summerfield, Chair YNiC REC

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An interesting editorial in Nature Neuroscience
by Gary Green 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

The following link contains important information for users. A Thursday journal club will consider these issues in detail, in late January. http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v10/n1/full/nn0107-1.html -- 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

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Monday seminar - brain and reading
by Andy Ellis 09 Dec '06

09 Dec '06

A reminder that there is an extra seminar on Monday at 12.30 in Psychology A202 (the Venables Room) Prof Tatjana Nazir (Lyon) 'Exploring the cortical networks underlying (visual) word recognition'. All welcome Andy -- Professor Andy Ellis Department of Psychology University of York York YO10 5DD UK Tel. +44 (0)1904 433140 http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/people/biogs/awe1.html

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This Friday, 8th December
by Gary Green 04 Dec '06

04 Dec '06

This Friday we have a group of visitors attending YNiC some time between 11 and noon. The visit is extremely important for us and the University. When the Open Plan area is busy there is an exciting atmosphere and it would be good to communicate that to the visitors even if they are only present for a few minutes. If you happened to be planning to use the YNiC facilities this week then please consider doing so on Friday morning as it would help us enormously. Thank you -- 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

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MEG benchmarking
by a.morland＠psychology.york.ac.uk 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

Dear All, I received three responses (please shout if I have ommitted any) to my enquiry concerning projects (past, present and future) that might assist us all in bench testing MEG analysis. The project details are described below and I am hopeful that each of them will inform us on how best to use the MEG tools that have been developed at YNiC. The projects are also at different stages of development and this is likely to allow at least some work to be done in series rather than us spread ourselves too thinly across three parallel projects. I plan to convene some meetings with each project team and YNiC staff to establish how to move forward on each project. These meetings will take the same form as the brain storming sessions that we are now running for project teams. The first of these was run recently and by all accounts was a successful and enjoyable activity. If you could let me know when (usually a Wednesday afternoon from 4pm) you are available to meet, that would be very helpful. Many thanks for responding. Tony Project: P1010 Title: Seeing the neural basis of the left hemisphere advantage for visual word recognition. Investigators: Ellis and Barca. SLO: Simpson Synopsis: MEG study with good data acquired from at least 11 participants. Left vs right visual field comparison for silent reading of words, scrambled words. Status: Data acquired and partially analysed. Project: P1039 Title: Investigating the magnitude and distance effects in number comparison with MEG. Investigators: Goebel. SLO: Simpson Synopsis: Aim to acquire data from circa 16 participants during number comparisons (and control trials). Status: Acquiring, but ethics and science approval. Project: P1051 Title: Comparing fMRI and MEG; object category selectivity in the visual cortex. Investigators: Lee, Young, Andrews & Johnson. SLO: Johnson Synopsis: 16 participants viewing faces and places. Status: Data not yet acquired, ethics and science applied for.

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Beamforming Day
by Michael Simpson 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

Dear all, For those who have registered, the timetable for the Beamforming training day tomorrow is: -------------- 9:15 - 10:00 Review of MEG (Gary Green) 10:10 - 10:50 Introduction to Beamforming (Gary Green) 11:00 - 1:00 Beamforming: A step-by-step guide and workshop (Will Woods) -------------- 1:30 - 2:20 Pitfalls and interpretation issues in MEG (Michael Simpson) 2:30 - 3:30 Virtual Electrodes: A step-by-step guide and workshop (Will Woods) 3:30 - 4:30 MEG Statistics: Group and Single Subject statistics (Gary Green) -------------- Please try to arrive for 9am so that everyone can get a coffee and be seated for a prompt 9.15am start. Also, please bring your own lunch. It will help us to keep to the tight schedule if people don't need to go to the shops at lunchtime to buy food. 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

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Neuroscience North East
by Tim Andrews 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Dear All, The British Neuroscience Association runs a Neuroscience North East conference each year . This year it will be held in Durham on 14/15 December. The aim of this conference is to give younger neuroscientists (PhD students, postdocs) an opportunity to present their work. If you are interested in presenting a talk or a poster OR fancy a couple of days in Durham, please let me know asap and I will put you in contact with the conference organizers. I have been told that there is free food and drink (incl. beer) and cheap accommodation. Best wishes, Tim -- Dr Tim Andrews Department of Psychology University of York York, YO10 5DD UK Tel: 44-1904-434356 Fax: 44-1904-433181 http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ta505/ http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/admissions/cns/

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advertising for participants
by rem 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Dear YNiC users A new page (not yet published) will be available on the YNiC website where researchers can advertise for participants. If you would like to advertise your study on the YNiC "Volunteers" page, please provide the following information to either me or your SLO: 1) The project title and a contact name 2) The email address of the contact 3) A few sentences describing your project 4) How long the experiment will take 5) Participant payment There will also be a link to the YNiC "Volunteers" page from the psychology department website. Furthermore, if you have specific requirements of participants (e.g. right-handed, normal vision), we can query the pool of volunteers in the YNiC database to produce a list of suitable volunteers for your study. I will send an email to all the volunteers on the list on the behalf of the user. Users will need to provide details of their study and a contact email so that interested volunteers can contact them directly. If you have any questions about this, please don't hesitate to contact me. Rebecca -- ************************************************************************ 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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Structural study
by Tom Hartley 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Dear All, I'm pleased to announced that we're about to start a new study which will look at the relationship between the size of the hippocampus and performance on a topographical memory task. The aim is to make use of MRI data collected in connection with previous and ongoing studies. We are looking to make contact with potential participants (healthy adults, aged 18-50) who have already had an MRI scan at YNiC or who will have one over the next 6-9 months. An additional constraint is that they should be available to take part in a brief (15-20 minute) psychological test later in the year. If you have already or are about to conduct a study with suitable participants and are willing to help, we would like to hear from you so that we can begin the process of contacting subjects and identifying studies in which they have participated. We aim to make this as easy for you and the potential participants as possible. There is a also a panel of volunteers who have agreed to be approached regarding future studies at YNiC, and we intend to approach these via the Director. To respond, please use the link below (please be careful not to "reply to all"!): mailto:t.hartley@psychology.york.ac.uk;rch504@york.ac.uk?subject=hvt:I-have- a-study You may yourself have had a scan and be interested in participating - if so, please contact us, and we can then begin the process of tracking down your scan and obtaining permission to analyze the data. There is no need to make a firm commitment at this stage, and as with all such studies, you would be free to withdraw at any time. If this fits you, please use the following link to reply to this message: mailto:t.hartley@psychology.york.ac.uk;rch504@york.ac.uk?subject=hvt:I-have- a-study Further information for potential participants is available at: http://www.neuroindex.org/images/b/bf/HVT_Information_revised.pdf Best wishes, Tom Hartley Rachel Harlow =================================== Dr Tom Hartley Dept. of Psychology t.hartley(a)psychology.york.ac.uk http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~th512 ext 2903

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YNiC Training Survey
by Gary Green 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Dear YNiC Users We would like to get your feedback on when would be the most convenient time to run training sessions. Please can you take a few minutes to tick some boxes and make comments on the online form at https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/user-resources/training-survey We will collate the information in two weeks time thanks -- 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

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Booking MEG and MRI
by Gary Green 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Dear ynic-users It is good to see that many of you are now using the online booking form for MEG and MRI. https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/user-resources/booking We hope the new procedure is easier than the old method of using email and/or phone. There is a small problem though which we would like to bring to your attention. When you use the online form, you should still wait for confirmation from Claire Fox by email that your session has been booked. This is because several people could, in theory, attempt to book the same hour. Another problem is that some people are attempting to book a session at night for the next day. This is not practical as we need to ensure that an operator is available, that the scanners are available and that all stimulus delivery issues, ethics, and consent are all in place. Please can we ask users to try and book their sessions before the Thursday of the week before they wish to use the scanners. Of course we do not want the scanners to be idle and the resource to be wasted, so, if you want to make a last minute booking and all the practical aspects of scanning are in place, then please ring Claire to discuss the possibility of using the scanners. The key thing then will be availability of operators. -- 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

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