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Updates
by Antony Morland 15 May '17

15 May '17

Hello All, As some of you may already know, we have had some issues with the GE scanner. GE attended Friday and today. They have made some progress. We are running tests this afternoon to check that data collection can resume from tomorrow. We are resuming testing the MEG scanner in collaboration with York Instruments. More news on this should emerge through June. Best wishes Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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YNiC talk this afternoon
by Alex Wade 11 May '17

11 May '17

Dear YNiC users Our talk today is from a visiting speaker: Marko Nardini from Durham will be talking about "Perceptual inference in the developing brain". Marko has keen interest in perceptual development and his work will be of interest both to our imaging community and to vision and developmental scientists. https://www.dur.ac.uk/psychology/staff/?id=11704 4pm at YNiC open plan. Best Alex

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Closure 12th May
by Antony Morland 05 May '17

05 May '17

Dear All, We are having some work done in the MRI suite 12th May, which means the centre will be closed for scanning. Open Plan will be Open, however. YNiC staff will be attending a training event, so there will be no reception or staff cover 12th May. Sorry for the short notice - the contractor only gave us this lead period for the work. Thanks 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 Antony Morland 02 May '17

02 May '17

Hello All, This week we will be hosting two project presentations; Lucilla Lanzoni (from Beth Jefferies's Lab) will talk about 'Effect of cues on semantic retrieval' Xiuyi Wang (from Jonny Smallwood's Lab) will talk about 'Graded constraints in semantic cognition: how do we retrieve knowledge in a flexible way' As usual the seminar will be on Thursday at 4pm (4th May) and refreshments will be provided after the presentations. Best wishes Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK. For support issues email: support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk

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MRI projection screen upgrade
by Andre Gouws 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

We have now upgraded the projection screen material in MRI and this will be the default screen in the scanner moving forward. Many of the existing projects that use "lower-level" calibration routines or are dependent on the use of the polarizer HAVE ALREADY BEEN USING THIS "NEW" SCREEN MATERIAL. Note that the "old" screens are still available for use by existing projects that have already acquired data - just remember that these screens will no longer be pre-loaded into the scanner by default and you will need to load them yourselves. As usual, if you have any queries, please drop me a line. -- André ************************************************************************ 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

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Updates
by Antony Morland 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

Dear All, Some upcoming events and news from YNiC. The current week marks the start of the MSc project scanning period. This week pilot scans will be performed to check all groups are ready to acquire data starting the week commencing 1st May. The summer terms seminar programme is flexible and will accommodate visiting speakers and project presentations. Two project presentations will take place 4th May and Marko Nardini (Durham) will give the seminar 11th May. Details on both to follow nearer the time. If you would like to present some of your work at YNiC over the coming weeks, please let me or Jonny Smallwood know. We had a successful visit from the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Saul Tendler, on Thursday 20th April. Thanks to all who attended and to those who presented their work. Saul left with an excellent impression of the centre. Best wishes Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK. For queries regarding support at YNiC email: support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk

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Essential IT Maintenance - Thursday 13th April
by Joe Lyons 13 Apr '17

13 Apr '17

Dear users, Please note that during our soft closure next week, the centre will be closed for the afternoon of Thursday 13th April so we can carry out essential maintenance on our IT systems. Computers in open plan will be available up to 11am. Thanks Joe Lyons Unix Systems Administrator York Neuroimaging Centre

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Lost (found) phone @ YNiC
by Andre Gouws 12 Apr '17

12 Apr '17

I just found a phone under a desk in open plan - I have left it in the reception office @ ynic (next to the printer) -- André ************************************************************************ 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

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Important notice
by Claire Fox 11 Apr '17

11 Apr '17

Dear Users, On the 20th of April, Deputy Vice Chancellor Professor Saul Tendler will be visiting YNiC. The visit is scheduled to occur between 9.30am and 11.30am, during which time there will be a series of short presentations. You are welcome to attend these presentations, we just ask that you keep noise to a minimum if attending the Centre during this period. Thank you Kind regards, Claire -- Claire Fox Centre Administrator York Neuroimaging Centre The Bio Centre York Science Park Heslington York YO10 5NY Tel: +44 (0)1904 435329 Fax: +44 (0)1904 435356 <%2B44%20%280%291904%20325805> Email: claire.fox(a)york.ac.uk Web: https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/ Available Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Email disclaimer: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm

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Fwd: PhD position for Oct 2017
by Antony Morland 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Hello all, Here is an opportunity for a PhD studentship at Cardiff. I was wondering whether you could pass on the following PhD studentship information to any good students you know who are interested in pursuing a PhD using neuroimaging techniques? Thanks! Elisabeth *PhD studentship: Information processing in the social brain* Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre and the School of Psychology, supervised by Dr Elisabeth von dem Hagen. The studentship will commence in October 2017. Application deadline: 1 May 2017 For details and information on how to apply, please click on one of the links below: http://psych.cf.ac.uk/degreeprogrammes/postgraduate/research/ https://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=83663 Elisabeth von dem Hagen PhD Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) & School of Psychology Cardiff University CUBRIC Building Maindy Road Cardiff CF24 4HQ Tel: +44 (0)29 2087 0151 <+44%2029%202087%200151> Elisabeth von dem Hagen PhD Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) & Yr Ysgol Seicoleg Prifysgol Caerdydd Adeilad CUBRIC Heol Maindy Caerdydd CF24 4HQ Ffôn : +44 (0)29 2087 0151 <+44%2029%202087%200151> http://psych.cf.ac.uk/contactsandpeople/academics/vondemhagen.php -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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Updates
by Andre Gouws 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Dear all, 1) The Deputy VC & Provost, Professor Saul Tendler, will be visiting YNiC between 09:30 and 10:30 on Thursday the 20th of April. Please feel free to join us here at the center and showcase your research. 2) The Siemens scanner is now use and a couple of projects are being used to finalize our data acquisition and processing streams, as well as develop our training program. As such we are on schedule to meet our target date to start using the scanner routinely. 3) Reminder: the open-plan area at YNiC will be open for use next week (w/c 10 April) but that no user support will be available as the team will be working on consolidating a number of outstanding issues and internal development projects. 4) Housekeeping: Although we want you to feel "at home" when you're here at YNiC, please be professional. Specific examples this week include (1) always wear shoes when you're in the center (don't walk around in bare feet or socks) and (2) do not use the clinical patient preparations areas (especially the one on the MRI corridor) as communal kitchens. -- André ************************************************************************ 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

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Fwd: postdoc and PhD opportunities - please share with anyone suitable
by Antony Morland 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

Opportunities in Durham ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "NARDINI, MARKO" <marko.nardini(a)durham.ac.uk> Date: 31 Mar 2017 5:06 pm Subject: postdoc and PhD opportunities - please share with anyone suitable To: "NARDINI, MARKO" <marko.nardini(a)durham.ac.uk> Cc: "BEIERHOLM, ULRIK" <ulrik.beierholm(a)durham.ac.uk> Dear colleagues, > > We have vacancies coming up for a post-doc and a PhD student on a 3-year > Leverhulme trust grant, “Learning to perceive and act under uncertainty”, > with myself and Ulrik Beierholm at Durham University. The project aims to > understand how humans learn new sensory and motor mappings and new > perceptual priors for perception and action under uncertainty. The post-doc > will work on behavioural studies with adults and computational modelling, > while the PhD student will address development in childhood. Please share > this opportunity with anyone who might be suitable! The postdoc can be from > anywhere. The PhD studentship is limited to paying UK or EU tuition fees > (which are unaffected by Brexit). Prospective applicants can find all the > details at http://community.dur.ac.uk/marko.nardini/ and are welcome to > contact marko.nardini(a)durham.ac.uk and ulrik.beierholm(a)durham.ac.uk for > any more information. > > Thank you – all the best, > > Marko > > >

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Updates
by Antony Morland 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

Hello All, I've received a few questions about our closure on the week commencing 10th April. The centre will be accessible and you can use open plan computers and will be able to operate the scanners. However, YNiC will not be fully staffed and for this reason we will not be able to offer help with scanning or stimulus generation and analysis during this week. Best wishes Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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Updates
by Antony Morland 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

Dear All, A few updates: 1) YNiC will be closed for the week commencing 10th April. 2) The Cognitive Neuroscience MSc course was featured in the Guardian's postgraduate supplement - please see the link below. Thanks to Tim Andrews, Jane Hazel and Joe Lyons for their work promoting the course and the centre. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/17/cognitive-neuroscience- postgrads-delving-into-the-mysteries-of-the-mind 3) We continue to pilot the use of the Siemens scanner and it is working well. 4) The GE scanner continues to work well 5) We are still assessing MEG, which is currently offline. Best wishes Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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Weekly YNiC news and events
by andre＠ynic.york.ac.uk 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

Hi All, This week, Andre' & Richard will be presenting a session they are calling "Making Pretty Pictures: (more) advanced visualization methods for imaging data". Please join us for the last presentation of term and refreshments afterwards in the YNiC open plan area at 4pm on Thursday. Other news: * Impromptu Project presentation: Sam Berens and Aiden Horner will be presenting a project proposal at 1pm on Tuesday the 14th of March (today) in the YNiC meeting room. Late notice, but feel free to attend if you can. * Repair work on the MEG system continues. * Two pilot projects are now actively acquiring data on the Siemens 3T MRI system - this process is allowing us to fine tune data acquisition protocols and the processing stream for data handling from this scanner. Hope to see you all on Thursday. ************************************************************************ 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

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Seminars and update
by Antony Morland 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

Hello All, Apologies, this should have been sent earlier this week. This week's seminar will be: '*The Siemens Scanner – what can it do (for you)?* by Alex Wade and Tony Morland. It will be at 4pm at YNiC - refreshments will follow. Also, this week (today, Wednesday) many of the YNiC staff and other investigators, who are trained or are in training to operate the scanners, will be attending a first aid course. YNiC will therefore have a skeleton staff on Wednesday. The MRI scanners are running well, but we are still having an uphill struggle with MEG. Happy scanning. Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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Seminar
by Antony Morland 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Deniz Vatansever will be giving at talk entitled "Big Data in Neuroscience: Opportunities and Challenges" today at 4pm. -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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Entering and exiting YNiC
by Andre Gouws 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

*Entering and exiting YNiC* This year has seen increased activity in the center associated with MSc and MPsych teaching and practicals. These sessions often coincide with periods during which we are scanning clinical patients at the center. It is important therefore that anyone arriving at, using or leaving the center does so in a professional and courteous manner. In order to minimize disruption in the patient waiting area (the "main YNiC reception"), we ask that all students arriving at the center for teaching / practical sessions to use the main BioCentre reception entrance. Thanks, -- André ************************************************************************ 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

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Seminar and weekly messages from YNiC
by Antony Morland 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Dear All, A few issues and upcoming events at YNiC 1. MEG is still down. We are attempting to debug some of the electronics. 2. We are piloting work on the Siemens scanner. We will feedback on progress at the end of term. 3. The GE scanner failed to reconstruct some images in a recent scan sessions; note to operators to check the scanner has reconstructed images as you go along. Report any failures, please. 4. Deniz et al will be using the centre for a 'Brain Hack' from Thursday through Sunday. 5. Deniz will also give a presentation on the Brain Hack on Thursday afternoon at the YNiC Seminar 6. We receive offers to help with research from keen undergraduates. We are usually too busy to train them up to help us, but if you have any research that would benefit from voluntary input from keen undergraduates, please get in touch and we can pass on the details of people who can help. Best wishes Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK. -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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YNiC Seminar reminder
by Andre Gouws 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Just a reminder that we are lucky enough to have an external speaker for the YNiC seminar today. Please join us for Magdalena Sliwinska (post-doctoral researcher at Imperial) 's talk at 4:15 in the YNiC open plan area, and for refreshments afterwards. The abstract for her talk reads: *Investigating the importance of domain-general neural networks for vocabulary learning:* There is now good evidence indicating that domain-general brain systems play a central role in various language processes, and potentially in the recovery from post-stroke aphasia. Part of the so-called salience network, consisting of adjacent areas in the midline superior frontal gyrus (SFG) and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), forms a core component of these distributed systems. In this talk, I will present results from a study that was designed to collect proof-of-principle data on healthy individuals, prior to a study on post-stroke aphasia, to assess whether novel vocabulary learning activates the salience network and whether cortical stimulation applied to this midline frontal brain region can influence vocabulary learning. -- André ************************************************************************ 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

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YNiC - Message of the week
by Andre Gouws 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Hello All, This week's seminar will be a project presentation by Anika Smith. Please come to see what she plans to do at YNiC. - 16:15 Thursday the 16th @ YNiC. News: * NEW: We have created a new page with information and content from our previous seminars in case you missed them: https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/docs/SeminarContent. * Additional response boxes delivered: We have acquired a further set of response boxes for our FORP response devices MRI and MEG) that allow up to four buttons in each hand simultaneously (8 response options) - see http://www.scienceplus.com/curdes-forp-8-button-boxes * MEG repair work continues A note about booking etiquette: One of the most efficient ways to use the scanners is to book a number of participants back-to-back in consecutive slots on the scanner. It is not acceptable practice to leave small, non-booked slots between these participants. An example would be if you were scanning 3 subjects for 45 minutes each, but leaving the scanner non-booked between them for 15 minutes so you can have a coffee break, or because that corresponds better with your PEEBS slots. Gaps like this will be noted and PIs will be charged for lost time. The scanners are very busy and we must do our best to optimize access to the facilities in a fair and financially viable way. If you 're having problems with bookings or have any suggestions please fee free to contact us. Have a good week and hope to see you on Thursday. Andre' pp Tony Morland -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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Project presentation
by Andre Gouws 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Please note that this presentation is in addition to the usual Thursday afternoon YNiC seminar series. Fiona McNab will be telling us what she is planning to do in her upcoming project at lunchtime on Tuesday the 21st February. Please join us at YNiC at 1pm. -- André ************************************************************************ 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

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This week at YNiC
by Antony Morland 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

Hello All, First of all Andre Gouws will be giving a presentation 'Why psychopy?'. This will show the advantages of using this package for generating stimuli. It has fast become the package of choice - come and see why. Starts 1615 in YNiC this Thursday. A few other things to report: 1) The GE scanner is continuing to serve us well following a service visit from GE last week. 2) We are progressing with fitting out and testing the Siemens scanner. We have received some generous contributions from grant holders to allow some more stimulus kit - for auditory experiments - to be ordered. We will keep you updated with progress. 3) The cluster was finally repaired over Christmas and we have had solid service since then. Other IT resources are working well. 4) MEG is still unavailable. Significant staff time is being spent on debugging the issue. 5) We have updated the website to indicate what happens during a pilot scan, so investigators know how to prepare for them. https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/information/application 6) For your queries, please use the RT email addresse: support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk This will enable us to deal with your request in the most efficient way. Best wishes Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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YNiC Seminar: Here's Jonny!
by Antony Morland 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hello All, The YNiC Seminar is going to be given by Jonny Smallwood who will be talking about 'Resting state analysis'. We'll kick off at 16:15 to allow some from Psychology with meetings there to get to the seminar before it starts. Best wishes Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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Semniar today
by Antony Morland 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

Hello Everyone, Andre Gouws will be telling us how to script FSL analyses today, allowing for more efficient data processing. We willkick off a little later than 4pm to allow colleagues, who have commitments in Psychology, to get over to YNiC. Cheers Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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