Hi all,
As of lunchtime today, the centre will be closed to allow us to perform
our annual IT systems upgrades. We have done our best to minimise
disruptions but following these upgrades please do keep a close eye on
your data processing and acquisition streams and let us know if there
are any issues.
Please note that we also use this opportunity to perform a number of
other "housekeeping" jobs that include moving furniture and some minor
building & decorating work - thus please consider the centre as *closed*.
We will let you all know once everything is up and running again.
--
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
As there has been practically no use of the Presentation stimulus
delivery software package at YNiC over the past 12 months, we are not
intending to renew the five licenses we currently purchase annually.
As such, Presentation will no longer be available for use on the
stimulus delivery PCs at YNiC after the centre IT upgrade next week.
Please contact me if you have any 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
Hi all,
No presentations this week, but the centre will be busy with the MSc CN
project hand in deadline looming.
Please note:
* CENTRE CLOSURE Tuesday 21st - Friday 24th August. - A reminder that we
are closed for part of next week for system upgrades.
* RETURN OF SCREENING/CONSENT FORMS: With the reception works complete,
please return all signed screening / general consent forms to the gray
postbox next to the reception office door if the office is closed.
* CENTRE ACCESS AND ALARMS: Keyholders should be aware that the main
reception alarm will now be set when the centre is closed. If you are
the first to enter, you will need to deactivate the alarm before opening
the main shutter to the reception area. This alarm is in the cupboard
immediately next to the key that opens the shutter. The alarm code is
the same for all areas. -- If you have any queries please see a member
of the team.
--
André
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André Gouws
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,
No project presentations this week, so just a couple of reminders:
* Reception services are back to normal at YNiC - please use the normal
YNiC entrance again.
* The servicing of the GE scanner was successful so we should be back up
to "full speed" now.
* ** DATES FOR YOUR DIARY ** - a reminder that the YNiC IT systems
upgrade is scheduled for the week commencing Monday the 21st of August.
There will be no scanning or access to computing facilities during that
week. We will let you know if anything changes.
--
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,
Thank you for your patience and cooperation during the remodeling of the
YNiC reception area. A few minor cosmetic issues aside, the work is now
completed and we can start to use the reception area as just that!
Please enter and leave YNiC via this area from now on rather than the
Biocentre entrance, and instruct anyone taking part in your studies to
do so too.
Best wishes,
--
André
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André Gouws
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5NY
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 435327
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
A reminder that Richard Vernon will be giving a project presentation at
4pm today: "Curvature and angular-position shape manipulations".
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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,
* Please join us at YNiC this Thursday at 4pm where there will be a
project presentation by Richard Vernon entitled "Curvature and
angular-position shape manipulations".
* Thank you for you patience as the improvement works on the new
reception area continue - we are awaiting the installation of some glass
panels and then normal service will resume. Until further notice, please
do continue to use the Biocentre entrance.
* GE Scanner service: Some components of the image reconstruction
hardware on the GE scanner are showing a fault and will need to be
replaced on Thursday afternoon - the scanner is still in use and should
perform normally for most users - just be aware that there may be a
slightly longer delay between scans as the images are processed.
Best wishes,
--
André
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André Gouws
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,
Pleas note the centre will be closed for all research scanning and analysis
from 5pm, Monday 21st August until the end of the week. This is to upgrade
our IT provision and perform annual maintenance.
Best wishes
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hi all,
* Please join us at YNiC this Thursday at 4pm where there will at least
2 project presentations from the Smallwood / Jefferies Labs:
"Understanding the gridlike encoding of associative information" -
Deniz Vatansever
"Understanding the neural basis of spontaneous thought" - Charlotte
Murphy
"TBC" - Jonny Smallwood *
* Work on the YNiC reception continues this week, and we hope to resume
service as usual ASAP. We will keep you updated but, for now, please
continue to use the Biocentre entrance.
--
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 work at YNiC has started this morning. Today's work will create a
considerable amount of noise. I'll update you on when we anticipate other
disruptions through the week.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hi
We're still seeing issue with the Matlab license in YNiC. We're waiting to
hear from IT Services and will update when we get more information.
Thanks
Joe
Hello all,
Apologies for the late notice - there will be a project proposal at 1030
today, not 4pm. This is due to a clash with a meeting in Psychology.
Best wishes
Tony
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Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Dear All,
We are planning some refurbishments to the YNiC reception. We are
currently booked in for the start of the works 17th July. This work will
mean that reception is not available and that entry to YNiC should be
through the Biocentre doors. We hope to be able to honour scans booked,
but please allow additional time to obtain the appropriate forms for your
participants during the closure of reception as temporary arrangements will
be in place that may cause delays.
We also have a training course 18th July and will not be able to perform
any scanning that day. Open plan will be open as usual, however.
Best wishes
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Dear All,
Apologies, I in a previous email I indicated a presentation would be made
this week, which is, in fact, going to be held next week - 13th July at 4pm.
Best wishes
tony
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Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Dear All,
We are upgrading the reception area this month. The current date penciled
in is the week commencing 17th July. Open plan will be accessible from the
Biocentre entrance. Further announcements about potential interruption of
scanning may be forthcoming, but at the moment research scanning can
continue.
We have a project presentation by Becca Kitching this week.
Best wishes
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hi All,
I'd like to gather expressions of interest for those those who would be
interested in attending a 'MrVista - Population Receptive Field Mapping'
workshop at YNiC.
For those of you not familiar with mrVista, it is a MATLAB interface for
analysing functional and anatomical MRI data, based on the Vistasoft
toolbox developed by Stanford University, whilst population receptive field
(pRF) mapping is a form of retinotopic mapping, where we compute a model of
pRFs and visual field maps within the visual cortex (Dumoulin, S. O., &
Wandell, B. A. (2008). Population receptive field estimates in human visual
cortex. *NeuroImage*, *39*(2), 647–660. https://www.ncbi.nlm.
nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3073038/).
The aim of the workshop is to familiarise yourself with fMRI analysis using
mrVista and learn how to conduct visual field mapping using the pRF method
- including data collection/running stimuli, structural processing and
segmentation, pre-processing, running the model, localising visual field
maps, and plotting data.
The workshop will run over 3 days at YNiC open plan and each session will
cover both theory and practical. All required data and software will be
supplied.
Dates scheduled are:
*Monday 31st July* 9:30am - 5pm
*Tuesday 1st August* 9:30am - 5pm
*Monday 7th August* 9:30am - 5pm
Please let me know if you are interested in attending or have any
questions. Thanks.
Best,
Marc
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Marc Himmelberg
PhD Student | ESR within NextGenVis ITN
PS/C018, Department of Psychology
University of York
York, YO10 5DD
UK
Hello All,
We will have Rachel Woodall give a presentation about two upcoming projects
this week (4pm Thursday 29th June).
Best wishes
Tony
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Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hello YNIC users,
We are trying to gauge interest in the use of large scale data sets by
users of the imaging centre. There are a growing number of open access data
sets that contain data from large samples of participants with phenotypical
data and a range of brain imaging measures (often resting state as well as
task data). I have added links to two of these data sets that I have had
experience using and publishing data from.
It would be very helpful if users who thought that this kind of data would
be beneficial to their ongoing work could get in contact with me. This
would allow the centre to get a sense of how many people would be
interested in using these types of data.
Thanks,
Jonny
http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/http://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/indi/enhanced/
--
Jonathan Smallwood, Reader in Psychology / Cognitive Neuroscience
Room C023, Department of Psychology, University of York, England. YO10 4PH.
Telephone: 01904 324651
Hello All,
As many of you will already know, our GE scanner is back in action. Thank
you for your patience.
Best wishes
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Sorry, All, the GE scanner is still poorly. Progress on its diagnosis is
being made, however, and we hope GE will get it fixed tomorrow.
Best wishes
Tony
Dear all,
As many of you will be aware, for around a decade the YNiC booking system
has released slots at midnight each day. How far ahead slots are released
depends on the project and the nature of its funding source.
We have just made an immediate change to the booking system such that
slots will now be released at MIDDAY rather than midnight. This change
takes effect immediately.
We believe that this change should be reflected in the appearance of the
web booking system as well as the internal YNiC booking tools used by
staff. If anyone spots any issues with the booking system as a result of
this change, please email me directly with details and I will investigate.
Many thanks,
Mark
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Mark Hymers, Lecturer in Neuroimaging Methods
York NeuroImaging Centre and Department of Psychology
University of York, UK
Please note that my email address is: mark.hymers(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Responses to messages sent to other addresses may be delayed
Hi all,
Another update on the GE scanner.
Although the GE scanner looks more like an MRI scanner again, it is
still not functional. Diagnostic work carried out today means that we
believe that the two parts likely to be responsible have been
identified. One part arrived at YNiC this evening and the other is due
to be delivered first thing on Monday morning. GE Engineers will be on
site on Monday to fit the parts and, hopefully, resolve the issue.
Scanning on Monday has been cancelled.
Another update should be sent around Monday lunchtime.
Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Hymers, Lecturer in Neuroimaging Methods
York NeuroImaging Centre and Department of Psychology
University of York, UK
Please note that my email address is: mark.hymers(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Responses to messages sent to other addresses may be delayed
Hi all,
The attached picture shows the GE scanner just after 5pm.
Unsurprisingly, this means that we will not be scanning tomorrow. We
are awaiting a part (arriving later this evening) and engineers will be
on-site this evening and tomorrow continuing to work on the problem.
We are currently discussing the effect that this has had on MSc scanning
and will write to students and supervisors once the scanner is available
again to let them know what arrangements we are making to make sure we
get all of the scanning done.
More updates tomorrow.
Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Hymers, Lecturer in Neuroimaging Methods
York NeuroImaging Centre and Department of Psychology
University of York, UK
Please note that my email address is: mark.hymers(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Responses to messages sent to other addresses may be delayed
Apologies, All, another day, another update. The GE engineers replaced a
number of parts today, but have still to fix the problem. They return
tomorrow to do more work to remedy our problem. I hope to be able to relay
more positive news soon.
Best wishes
Toby
Hello All,
Sorry, still no good news to report. Tomorrow, GE will attend again to
replace parts and see if that resolves the issues we are encountering.
Best wishes
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
