Hello,
The date for the next YNIC Science committee meeting is April 30th. If any
users have issues that they would like raised, please can they get in
contact with me before the end of next week so I can include these in the
agenda. One issue we are hoping to discuss are the Seminar series. If
anyone has any comments on what they like or dislike about these that would
be really helpful.
Thanks
Jonny
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Jonathan Smallwood, Reader in Psychology / Cognitive Neuroscience
Room C023, Department of Psychology, University of York, England. YO10 4PH.
Telephone: 01904 324651
Hello All,
We are working on a new way to deliver our clinical services. When
possible we are focusing our efforts on scanning on Monday afternoons and
into early evening. This will allow us to allocate the required resources
for the service in a more efficient way, while also making the scanners
free for the rest of the week. It should be noted however that there may
be some other occasions during the week when we may have to scan urgent
cases.
Best wishes
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hello All,
The centre will be closed for Good Friday and Easter Monday. Some YNiC
staff will be taking leave this week or next, so please be patient if you
have sent requests to support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Thanks and Happy Easter
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hello
We're having some issue with the NFS mounts on the remote desktop which is
causing issues for some users and so need to reboot it. We'll be doing this
today at 2pm. Please save anything you have open and logoff to avoid any
issues.
Thanks
Joe
--
Joe Lyons, UNIX Systems Administrator
York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC), University of York
Hi all,
Please join us at 4pm this afternoon at YNiC for a very informal seminar
/ forum discussion where we will be reflecting on the features and
benefits (and maybe cons) of attending any one of the many conferences
that we as a community might attend. The conversation will cover areas
like venues, size, what's included in registration, the science, poster
experiences, talk structure and typical audiences.
Hope to see you all here.
Best wishes,
--
André
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André Gouws PhD
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5NY
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 435327
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Hi all,
Users have recently raised a couple of queries about YNIC operator
covered slots - and there appears to be some confusion. Please can I
clarify the following:
1) Operator covered slots are limited and pre-allocated on each scanner
- currently we allocated 12 hours per week on the GE and 18.5 hours on
the Siemens. These numbers are subject to periodic review.
2) We will endeavour to populate the database with operator covered
slots for 6 weeks into the future to help to provide extra flexibility
for fully funded projects (this has not always been possible but should
be implemented moving forward)
3) Training does NOT use up pre-allocated YNiC operator covered slots:
although it may appear in the database that operator covered slots are
used for training, these slots represent times when a YNiC operator is
required to attend to perform training, but these slots are in addition
to the pre-allocated operator covered slots for research scanning.
Please drop me a line if you have any further queries.
Thanks,
--
André
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André Gouws PhD
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5NY
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 435327
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Hello All,
The seminar this week will be delivered by the team at York Instriuments.
They will be doing a 'show and tell' about their new software for MEG and
will also offer a tour of YI for those who are interested.
Best wishes
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Today Leah Kelly will present a proposal for her new project "The neural
correlate of cognition and visual loss".
The talk will be at 4pm and will be followed by refreshments.
Hope to see you all there.
...
p.s. Not to detract from what I'm sure will be an excellent and
interesting presentation by Leah, but just s quick reminder:
** REMINDER - Kalanit Grill-Spector will be giving a seminar at 4pm on
Thursday 22 February in B020. Kalanit has made a number of seminal
contributions in visual neuroscience over the past 20 years,
particularly in the way faces and objects are represented in the brain.
I hope you will be able to attend her seminar. **
--
André
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André Gouws PhD
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5NY
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 435327
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Hello All,
The seminar today will be given by Andre
*Scripting FSL – a quick guide to labour saving*
All the best
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hi all,
GE have now completed maintenance on the GE and the system is available
for booking.
The system should operate normally - if you do encounter any problems
please contact one of the YNiC team.
Thanks,
--
André
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André Gouws PhD
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5NY
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 435327
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Hi All,
We have a project presentation this week at 4pm, Thursday 1st February.
Holly Brown will be talking about 'Exploring connectivity in individuals
with visual loss'.
Unfortunately, our GE scanner is down at present. A large component in the
system has failed and based on previous experience the problem can take a
week to fix. We are liaising with the GE engineers and will be in touch
with further updates.
Tip of the week: When booking the scanners, please enter the participant
ID. If you do the appropriate forms will be printed out for your booking,
which saves you and the staff at YNiC time.
Best wishes
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hello All,
The seminar this week (Thursday at 4pm) will be given by Andre Gouws: Why
PsychoPy?
This will be of particular value to those of you wanting to design and
present stimuli for scanning. Demos and examples to try will be given.
Refreshments will follow.
For further details on seminars, please see
https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/events/thursday-sessions (note loggin into the
website may be required to access the information).
Tip of the week: use the cluster to speed up your analysis. See the
following URL for details.
https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/docs/ITPages/IT/ClusterScripts
Also, if you are having issues with things, please email:
support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Best wishes
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hello all,
Please let me know if there are any issues that you would like raised at
this months meeting of the YNIC Science Committee meeting. Just in case you
forgot this is a chance for users, or potential users, to raise issues that
they would like to be considered by YNIC moving forward. Please contact me
by Friday if you have anything you would like to be discussed.
Best wishes
Jonny
--
Jonathan Smallwood, Reader in Psychology / Cognitive Neuroscience
Room C023, Department of Psychology, University of York, England. YO10 4PH.
Telephone: 01904 324651
Hello All,
This week's seminar will be allocated to a project presentation:
*'The relationship between emotion regulation and mind-wandering'* - Haakon
Engen & Jonny Smallwood
It will start at 4pm on Thursday, 18th January.
Could I remind investigators to have their participants registered 24 hours
before any scan appointment. Otherwise, we can't guarantee that we will be
able to register the participant in time for their scan appointment.
Finally, we are hosting a school visit on the afternoon of 17th between
1230 and 330pm. As part of the visit there will be talks in open plan. We
will therefore be closing open plan for a few hours to allow things to run
smoothly. Apologies and thanks for your co-operation.
Best wishes
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hello All,
Happy New Year from all of us at YNiC!
The YNiC Seminar Series will resume next week, 4pm, 18th January, with a
talk by Haakon Engen, from the MRC CBU, Cambridge. The title will follow,
but Haakon has collaborated with Jonny Smallwood, who is hosting him, so I
expect the talk may include some work on resting state fMRI.
Over the Christmas break, we successfully upgraded the servers and
cluster. The cluster's performance has been improved by some
optimization. It is hoped that the work we've done will therefore improve
functionality. If you do have any bugs that arise, please get in touch
support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk.
Best wishes
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hi All,
Some more details about the talk today.
Koen Haak
*Title*: Connectopic mapping with resting state fMRI
*Abstract*: How does the organisation of the human brain in terms of its
connectivity subserve cognitive and perceptual processes? In this talk, I
will give an overview of my work on mapping individualised connection
topographies based on the spontaneous brain activity fluctuations that
occur when a subject is at rest (resting-state fMRI). I will demonstrate
that these connection topographies predict subject-by-subject differences
in behaviour and I will discuss how this approach opens up the possibility
of studying the neural underpinnings of human perception and cognition
across thousands of individuals, from neonates to the elderly, in health
and disease.
Best wishes
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hello All,
We have a visitor, Koen Haak, who will be giving a talk about his modelling
work. He has developed 'Connective Field' modelling for fMRI and applied
it to the visual system and more generally. He'll start at 4pm Thursday
and we will be heading out for a meal afterwards, if anyone would like to
join us.
Upcoming closures and changes to access to the centre:
1. December 13 -15th. We will be closed. There will be no access to
the centre other than for staff. We will be performing IT server
upgrades. This will also mean that all remote services will be unavailable.
2. Week Commencing 18th December. There will be no operator slots
during this week. We will be managing the year end issues associated with
the period of closure for the Christmas break.
3. Week Commencing 25th December. The centre will be closed. No access
will be possible. Remote services will be available.
4. YNiC will open 2nd January and operator cover will commence 4th
January.
5. Week Commencing 8th January normal service resumes
Something to note: The university spam filters have been diverting many
messages to YNIC-Users to spam folders. We have updated things at our end,
so hope this will no longer occur.
Tip to the week:
Check your SPAM folder
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hello All,
This Thursday at 4pm we will have a talk given by Janine Mendola (McGill)
entitled 'Neuroimaging studies of binocular vision: States, traits,
debates'
Best wishes
Tony
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Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Sorry for cross posting but this looks quite a useful resource?
Philip.
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>
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> Subject: Computational neuroscience data in the Wolfram Knowledgebase
> Date: 15 November 2017 at 17:14:06 GMT
> To: philip.quinlan(a)york.ac.uk
>
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Please not that the YNiC Research Governance Committee has released a
new version of the YNiC RGC application form, along with updated
guidance for completion of the form.
The new versions can be found at on the "How to apply to use the centre
for a study" page (https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/information/application)
or directly at the forms download page (https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/forms).
These versions should be used for all future submissions.
Thanks,
--
André
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André Gouws PhD
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5NY
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 435327
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear All,
A few things this week:
1. The GE scanner will be down for maintenance of the gradient cooling
system on Wednesday and Thursday.
2. There will be a seminar this week explaining the projects we have
planned for this academic cycle. This will include details of software and
equipment upgrades and updates to services and training.
3. We will be closing for three days - 13/12-15/12 - for server upgrades.
4. There will be no operator cover for the week commencing 18/12. The
scanners may be booked if you have an operator, however.
Tip of the week:
Sometimes you may need to change file permissions to gain access to them.
Here is some useful information on how to do it. You will need to log on
to the wiki to get to the link.
https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/docs/ITPages/FilePermissions?highlight=%28permi…
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Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Dear All,
This week we have a GE planned maintenance on Thursday. We are also
cooling down the MEG scanner to allow new electronics to be installed later
this year. This will mean that (a) there may be some disruption because of
the movement of equipment and liquid gases and (b) staff time for support
may be limited this week because of the nature and extent of the work
involved in cooling MEG.
Tip of the week:
Send all support requests to
support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Dear All,
This week, Andre will be giving a seminar 'Managing your project at YNiC'.
As usual the seminar will start at 4pm and will be followed by refreshments.
We have been having some issues with the GE scanner recently, but are
monitoring the situation.
Next week we will be servicing the MEG scanner by bringing it down to
operating temperature. The centre will be busy with extra staff present
and equipment being used throughout the week.
Best wishes
Tony
Tip:
type *man* followed by a function you would like to know how to use
e.g. man ls
man is the abbreviated form of manual
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Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hello All,
This weeks seminar is 'How to apply to use the centre'. This will be
relevant to all newbies, but will also give an overview of updates that are
in the pipeline that will affect all applicants.
In other news we are continuing with our programme of training for
operators of the Siemens and GE scanners.
Best wishes
Tony
Tip of the week:
At the command line you can type
ls > list.txt
it will generate a text file of the files and directories in the current
directory (as long as you have write permissions in the current directory)
ls *is the 'list' command*
> *allows the output of the ls command to be redirected to a file*
mylist.txt * is the file name you supply to capture the output of the ls
command*
Why is this useful? The generation of a file that lists directories or
files can be useful when you are writing scripts to perform analysis on
multiple directories or files.
Note that this help with ls can be obtained by typing
man ls
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Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.