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Important
by Antony Morland 08 Jul '19

08 Jul '19

Hello All, Please be aware that participants, who are pregnant should not be scanned. I know this is standard practice, but I thought it would be a timely reminder because of the following. We are in the process of having a risk assessment about pregnancy and MRI operators. While this risk assessment is being performed MRI operators who are pregnant should no longer enter the scanner room. I will update you on any changes resulting from the risk assessment. Best wishes Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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This Week at YNiC
by Lauren Welbourne 08 Jul '19

08 Jul '19

Hi everyone This week Ryan Elson will be giving two project presentations in YNiC open plan at *4pm on Thursday 11th*, followed by refreshments. The titles of these talks are: - "Investigating motor feedback in the STS and SC during expression recognition." - "Investigating 'within' and 'between' expression processing in the STS using combined TMS and psychophysics." Please also be aware that due to staff annual leave over the summer, there will be a limited number of operator covered slots across the two scanners. We hope to see you at the talks on Thursday. 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 01 Jul '19

01 Jul '19

Hi everyone This Tuesday 2nd July at 1pm we will have a site visit by the Chair of the Wellcome Trust, Eliza Manningham-Buller. If you are in open plan or scanning during this time, please behave professionally. Our next YNiC user induction is provisionally planned for *Wednesday 10th July *(time TBC). 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. 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 24 Jun '19

24 Jun '19

Hi everyone We have a few announcements for you this week: *Summer Closure* We would like to give you advanced notice of our summer closure period, which will take place between the 2nd and 20th September. During this period we will perform essential IT upgrades and maintenance. There will be no access to the centre (including remotely), and no support will be provided over this period. *Screening Participants* We know that we have had to turn away participants on the day that they attend for scanning. We also know that this is very frustrating for researchers. The situation can occur for all participant groups, but is more frequent in special or elderly populations. Our existing advice is to ensure that you speak with your participant *before* the day of their scan to go through the screening form, and obtained any Level 3 signatures required. We know that this is done routinely, but we have a couple of further suggestions: - First, be absolutely clear that the questions you will be asking are vital to ensure participant safety, and that each participant should answer fully and take time to consider their answers. - Second, make the participant aware that having participated in a scan before does not mean that they will be clear for an upcoming scan; they need to consider each question carefully and identify anything that they may have previously had approved by an operator - Finally, and related to the previous point, knowing that a participant has been scanned before is not a guarantee that that same participant will be eligible for an upcoming scan, because of any potential change in their status or indeed changes in safety regulations governing who may be scanned. *YNiC User Inductions* We are running our next YNiC user induction this *Wednesday 26th June* at the updated time of *4pm*. 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. 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 17 Jun '19

17 Jun '19

Hi everyone - We will be running our next *YNiC user induction on Wednesday 26th June 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. 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 10 Jun '19

10 Jun '19

Hi everyone Just one notice this week, there will be no support at YNiC on Wednesday 12th June, due to staff attending the Yorkshire Vision Network meeting. The centre will still be open for use. Hope you have a good 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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YNiC - no support 12th June
by Lauren Welbourne 05 Jun '19

05 Jun '19

Hi everyone Please be aware that the majority of YNiC staff will be unavailable on 12th June for the Yorkshire Vision Network meeting. Therefore, there will be no support or operator cover on this day, but the centre will still be open. 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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IMPORTANT: Level 3 signatures w/c 3rd June
by Lauren Welbourne 31 May '19

31 May '19

Hi all Please be aware that next week (w/c 3rd June) we have very limited Level 3 availability for signing off safety forms. If you have any participants being scanned next week that will need a signature you must get these signed-off no later than Monday afternoon. You can get the participant safety form printed at reception, and you can also hand these back to reception once the forms are signed if you have nowhere safe to store them before the scan. Reception will attach the signed form to the general consent sheet, which you can collect as normal on the day of the scan. It should be noted that it is standard procedure to obtain signatures in advance of the scan day - we cannot guarantee that booked scans will go ahead if a signature is not obtained in advance. We appreciate your understanding in this process, and in the importance of participant safety over research. Please let me know if you have any questions. 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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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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Siemens: slot available tomorrow afternoon
by Sara Stampacchia 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

Hi there, There is a *slot available from 15:45 until 17:00 tomorrow in the Siemens* in case you anyone is interested. The slot is currently booked for my project (P1370). However, the participant scheduled is not willing to come tomorrow for his second day of scanning and -because of the experimental design- we cannot recruit anyone new at this point. If you interested in booking the slot please email @Joe Lyons <joe.lyons(a)york.ac.uk> and he will be able to update the booking. Cheers, Sara Sara Stampacchia Department of Psychology University of York, UK

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REMINDER: Safety form signatures
by Lauren Welbourne 11 Apr '19

11 Apr '19

Hi all Don't forget that tomorrow (Friday 12th) is your last day to get Level 3 signatures for participants that are being scanned next week. Please bring your relevant consent forms (with appropriate information regarding the safety issue) to the staff office *before midday* on Friday. 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 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

Hi everyone There are a couple of things you should be aware of over the coming weeks: 1. The GE scanner is now fully operational, so scanning slots can be booked. Thanks again for your patience during the unexpected downtime. 2. A large proportion of YNiC staff will be away for the MEG UK conference from Monday 15th to Wednesday 17th April, and therefore support will be limited during this period. *Specifically, if you need Level 3 signatures for any scanning on these days they must be obtained no later than 12th April (n.b. signatures should always be arranged before the scan day). * 3. *YNiC will be closed for the Bank Holidays on 19th and 22nd April * 4. We have provisionally scheduled our next User Induction for Thursday 18th April at 10am, subject to availability and interest. Please ask any relevant students/staff to email support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up if they intend to start using the centre. Hope you have a great week! Cheers, 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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The GE scanner is fully operational
by Richard Aveyard 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

Hello everyone, The cold head on the GE scanner was successfully replaced by engineers yesterday, and the system is now ready for scanning again. Apologies again for the unexpected downtime, we appreciate your patience with this. Best wishes, Rich -- Richard Aveyard, Senior Research Technician York NeuroImaging Centre University of York, UK

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This week at YNiC
by Richard Aveyard 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

Hello everyone, Things to note this week: 1. The *GE* scanner requires a replacement cold head and so will be *unavailable until Wednesday the 3rd of April at the earliest. * 2. YNiC was closed for maintenance last week, this included IT upgrades with security patching and fibre work, adjustments to the security alarm system, and a layout change. The central meeting room off open plan is now an extension to the staff office. * Consent debriefing and other private interviews should be carried out in the small sound-proof room opposite the PhD office in open plan, or the interview room on the MRI corridor. * 3. YSPL will be doing maintenance on IT systems this week, however, this is not expected to affect uses. 4. A large cohort of YNiC staff will be away for the MEG UK conference 15-17th of April. *Signatures for conditional exceptions on consent forms for 15th-17th of April must be organized for no later than the 12th of April. We would also like to remind users that exceptions in consent forms should be arranged in advance of the scan day in all cases. * 5. We have provisionally scheduled our next *User Induction on Thursday the 18th of April at 10am*. Subject to availability and interest. Please ask any relevant students/staff to email support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up if they intend to start using the centre. Best wishes, Rich -- Richard Aveyard, Senior Research Technician York NeuroImaging Centre University of York, UK

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YNiC IT Downtime
by Joe Lyons 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Hello We'll be doing some essential IT security maintenance during the closure at YNiC on Friday 29th March at 12 noon. All systems will be down including the remote desktop and the cluster. Thanks Joe -- Joe Lyons, UNIX Systems Administrator York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC), University of York

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This week at YNiC
by Richard Aveyard 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

Hello everyone, Things to note this week: 1. *YNiC will be closed 27th-29th of March for vital maintenance. *Some scans will be operating in this period due to unexpected scanner downtime but the facility will not be accepting new bookings and will not be open for other users. 2. A number of YNiC forms have been updated. *Please ensure that you use the latest forms from the YNiC website <https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/docs/forms>* and, as usual, please read all forms in full before signing. Note that we will no longer start training operators until their PI/ line manager signs to confirm that they have completed all statutory University training. 3. We have provisionally scheduled our next *User Induction on Thursday the 4th of April at 10am*. Subject to availability and interest. Please ask any relevant students/staff to email support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up if they intend to start using the centre. 4. The GE scanner is down for urgent maintenance, we will have GE engineers in to replace the cold head during the closure, with *normal service on GE expected to resume next week from Monday the 1st of April. * Best wishes, Rich -- Richard Aveyard, Senior Research Technician York NeuroImaging Centre University of York, UK

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