Dear Users
In addition to "Feedback from the MEG UK meeting" on 3rd February, Tim
Andrews will also give two project proposal presentations:
1. Can patterns of neural response predict facial identity?
2. Inter-individual differences in brain response to dynamic visual input.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
Dear Users
This week (4.30-5.30 pm YNiC open plan) YNiC staff will provide feedback
on the recent MEG UK meeting.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
Dear Users
Today (4.30-5.30 pm YNiC open plan) Ed Silson will give a project
proposal presentation on "Functional Properties of LO-1 and LO-2 in
human Lateral Occipital cortex"
Summary:
The Lateral Occipital (LO) cortex is known to be an object-selective
brain region. Although originally thought not to contain a retinotopic
organisation, recent evidence suggests that LO contains two adjacent
representations of the contralateral visual field, referred to as LO-1
and LO-2 (Larson & Heeger, 2006). Larson and Heeger (2006) suggested
that LO-1 and LO-2 might have different functional properties and that
both contribute to object recognition. We aim to use functionally-guided
TMS to probe the functional properties of LO-1 and LO-2.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
FYI
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: PhD and Postdoc positions - SNN Radboud University
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:42:39 +0000
From: Rebecca Martin <Rebecca.Martin(a)cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Reply-To: SNN Adaptive Intelligence <snn(a)science.ru.nl>
To: researchers(a)pascal-network.org
Two positions for research on machine learning for stochastic optimal
control theory in the Complacs EU project
There are a PhD position and a postdoc position available at the SNN
Radboud University
for research machine learning methods for stochastic optimal control theory.
You find more information on the link below.
Bert Kappen
http://www.snn.ru.nl/nijmegen/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=…
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Jen Downing
PA to Professor Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
tel: +44 (0)1904 435329
fax: +44 (0)1904 435356
Dear all
Tomorrow's visiting speaker in Psychology is Joe Devlin from Cognitive,
Perceptual & Brain Sciences at UCL. His talk is on "What does the brain
know about orthography".
www.ucl.ac.uk/neuroscience/Page.php?ID=12&ResearcherID=157
Andy
Dear Users
This week (4.30-5.30 pm YNiC open plan) Ed Silson will give a project
proposal presentation on "Functional Properties of LO-1 and LO-2 in
human Lateral Occipital cortex"
Summary:
The Lateral Occipital (LO) cortex is known to be an object-selective
brain region. Although originally thought not to contain a retinotopic
organisation, recent evidence suggests that LO contains two adjacent
representations of the contralateral visual field, referred to as LO-1
and LO-2 (Larson & Heeger, 2006). Larson and Heeger (2006) suggested
that LO-1 and LO-2 might have different functional properties and that
both contribute to object recognition. We aim to use functionally-guided
TMS to probe the functional properties of LO-1 and LO-2.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
FYI
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Post-Doctoral Position
A two-year post-doctoral position is open at the Neuroscience Center of
University of Helsinki (Finland) in a project exploring the functional
roles of cortical oscillations with M/EEG. The applicant will acquire
M/EEG, MRI, and possibly fMRI data and perform M/EEG time series and
source localization analyses within a state-of-the-art neuroinformatics
platform. The main focus of the project is in the mapping and network
analyses of within- and cross-frequency neuronal interactions in
source-reconstructed M/EEG data (Palva et al., 2010, PNAS, NeuroImage)
with published and novel approaches.
The successful applicant has experience in planning and performing
MEG/EEG experiments and in applying advanced data-analysis methods. The
applicant should also have a track record in human neuroimaging
literature. Applications are invited from ambitious, enthusiastic, and
highly committed young researchers.
Prerequisites include: Prior experience in the MEG/EEG field and PhD or
an equivalent degree in Neuroscience, Psychology, Medical Engineering,
or another related field. Programming skills (Matlab, LabVIEW) are an
advantage.
The application for the position should contain a 1-2 page letter of
intent, CV, list of publications, and the names of at least two senior
researchers who can recommend the applicant. Inquiries and applications
should be sent by email to Satu Palva (satu.palva(a)helsinki.fi
<mailto:satu.palva@helsinki.fi>).
Satu Palva, PhD
Neuroscience Center
P.O. Box 56
00014-University of Helsinki
tel. +358-19157613
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.ukhttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/about-us/people/ggrg
tel. +44 (0) 1904 435349
PA +44 (0) 1904 435329 or reception(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
fax +44 (0) 1904 435356
mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004
Dear Users
Today (4.30-5.30 pm YNiC open plan) Andy Ellis will give a talk on
"Semantically-driven re-activation of visual cortex in object
recognition?".
Summary:
Magnetoencephalography was used to probe the nature and time course of
responses to early and late acquired objects in a covert naming task.
Analysis focused on regions in left occipital and anterior temporal
cortex that have been reported to show stronger responses to early than
late
acquired objects in fMRI. An evoked response in visual cortex around 170
ms was followed by an evoked response in anterior temporal cortex
(150-250 ms) that was stronger to early than late acquired objects. This
was followed by an induced re-activation of visual cortex from 250 ms
onwards that was also modulated by age of acquisition. The talk will
illustrate one way of making statistical comparisons across experimental
conditions in MEG.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
Dear Users
Please be aware that, as of this week, YNiC Thursday seminars will start
at the later time of *4.30 pm*.
This shift in the starting time is necessary to avoid a clash with
teaching sessions in Psychology.
Thank you
Rebecca
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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
Dear Users
This week (4-5 pm YNiC open plan) Andy Ellis will give a talk on
"Semantically-driven re-activation of visual cortex in object
recognition?".
Summary:
Magnetoencephalography was used to probe the nature and time course of
responses to early and late acquired objects in a covert naming task.
Analysis focused on regions in left occipital and anterior temporal cortex
that have been reported to show stronger responses to early than late
acquired objects in fMRI. An evoked response in visual cortex around 170
ms was followed by an evoked response in anterior temporal cortex (150-250
ms) that was stronger to early than late acquired objects. This was
followed by an induced re-activation of visual cortex from 250 ms onwards
that was also modulated by age of acquisition.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
Dear Users
Today (4-5 pm YNiC open plan) Chris Racey will give a project proposal
talk on "Processing of real world objects in object selective cortex:
effects of parametric manipulation of size change".
Summary:
The visual system is able to perform recognition tasks in a manner that
appears to be invariant to changes in size of the retinal image. It is
thought that this size invariance is established early on in visual
processing (Goodale & Milner, 1992; Rolls, 2000). The aim of the present
study is to measure adaptation to objects of changing size across the
whole visual system and across several size change conditions which vary
parametrically. The design of the present experiment will be an
fMR-adaptation paradigm similar to that used in our previous work
looking at viewpoint invariance (Racey et al., 2010). We aim to measure
differences in size invariance for objects between the various category
selective brain regions at the level of the Ventral Occipito-Temporal
cortex (VOT). Further, we aim to measure the change in size invariance
moving posterior to anterior through the visual processing hierarchy.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
Dear Users
This week (4-5 pm YNiC open plan) Chris Racey will give a project
proposal talk on "Processing of real world objects in object selective
cortex: effects of parametric manipulation of size change".
Summary:
The visual system is able to perform recognition tasks in a manner that
appears to be invariant to changes in size of the retinal image. It is
thought that this size invariance is established early on in visual
processing (Goodale & Milner, 1992; Rolls, 2000). The aim of the present
study is to measure adaptation to objects of changing size across the
whole visual system and across several size change conditions which vary
parametrically. The design of the present experiment will be an
fMR-adaptation paradigm similar to that used in our previous work
looking at viewpoint invariance (Racey et al., 2010). We aim to measure
differences in size invariance for objects between the various category
selective brain regions at the level of the Ventral Occipito-Temporal
cortex (VOT). Further, we aim to measure the change in size invariance
moving posterior to anterior through the visual processing hierarchy.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
The security access code for YNiC has been changed today. So if any user
has a set of access door keys for YNiC, and hasn't already been advised
of the new access code, then could they please contact myself or another
member of YNiC staff.
This change has no impact on the door fobs which should continue to work
as before.
Many thanks,
Jo.
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Jo Saunders
Centre Manager
YNiC
The BioCentre
York Science Park
YORK
YO10 5DG
Email: Joanna(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Tel: (01904) 435343
Fax: (01904) 435356
Tues, Wed & Thurs
.............................
Dear Colleagues
As you know, Alliance Medical have now left YNiC.
This means that they obviously are not providing MRI Operators.
The only authorised MRI operators are
Andre Gouws
Mark Hymers
Ross Devlin (temporary appointment to cover clinical projects, but is
available for research scanning from the 5th of January)
others are in training. I will inform you when more operators become
available
Please do not try and operate the magnet console if you are not on the
list. This is for your safety and those of your participants. You will
not be covered by insurance if an incident were to occur.
The full list of operators can always be found at
https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/information/mri-operators
Gary
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.ukhttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/about-us/people/ggrg
tel. +44 (0) 1904 435349
PA (Amy Gibson) +44 (0) 1904 435329 or amy.gibson(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
fax +44 (0) 1904 435356
mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004
Dear Users
Today (4-5 pm in YNiC open plan) Gary Green will give a talk on
""Opportunities for pattern classifiers".
Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be available
afterwards.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
Hi,
As you are probably aware, YNiC open plan will be closed tomorrow for
staff training. We're also going to take the opportunity to perform a
needed hardware fix on one of the main servers, so it won't be possible
for people to leave analyses running on the machines in open plan or the
cluster. This outage will be from around 9am for an hour or so.
This will also affect the remote desktop service, which will be rebooted
as part of the work - anybody who has suspended sessions should make
sure that they save their work before tomorrow morning. I've explicitly
Bcc'd those who appear to have sessions running to ensure that they know
about this - apologies to anyone who gets the mail twice.
Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Hymers
York Neuroimaging Centre
Dear Users
This week (4-5 pm in YNiC open plan) Gary Green will give a talk on
""Opportunities for pattern classifiers".
Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be available afterwards.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
Dear All,
The deadline for abstracts to VSS is Wednesday, December 1st (11:59
latest time zone on earth). This might be Thursday morning for us!
Tim
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: VSS Abstract Submission Deadline is this Wednesday, December 1st
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:04:47 -0800
From: Vision Sciences Society <VSS(a)visionsciences.org>
Reply-To: VSS Information <vss(a)visionsciences.org>
To: t.andrews(a)psych.york.ac.uk
The deadline for submitting abstracts for the VSS 2011 Meeting is
Wednesday, December 1st (11:59 latest time zone on earth). To access
your online account, log in to the VSS Online Membership and Meeting
System <http://www.visionsciences1.org/vss_public/>. You must renew your
membership for 2011 to be eligible to submit an abstract.
For more information or if you have questions, please contact Vision
Sciences Society <mailto:vss@visionsciences.org>.
If you are applying for the 2011 Elsevier/Vision Research Travel Award
all supporting documentation is also due on 12/1/10.
Complete application instructions can be found at Student Travel Awards
<http://www.visionsciences.org/awards.html>.
Follow Us on Twitter <http://twitter.com/VSSMtg>
<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vision-Sciences-Society-Official-VSS-Page/355…>
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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/
Dear Users
There will not be a YNiC seminar this Thursday (2nd December).
The next seminar will be given by Gary Green on 9th December.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
Dear Users
This afternoon Andre Gouws will be giving a presentation (4-5 pm) in
YNiC open plan.
The title of Andre's talk is "Suppressive feedback from the visual
cortex to the LGN: Evidence from negative BOLD".
This presentation will include results and discussion of data presented
at SFN this year, and will conclude with a project presentation for
extension of the current work.
Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be available afterwards.
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Andre Gouws
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 435327
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Hello all,
Just a reminder that tomorrow from 1:15 to 3:15 YNiC open plan will be
full with another practical for the masters students. Anyone wanting to
come up early for the seminar would be advised to not come up too early.
Thanks,
Sam
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Sam Johnson
Science Manager, York NeuroImaging Centre
University of York
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
Hi all,
IF YOU USE PRESENTATION IN fMRI PLEASE READ THIS!
We have recently been experiencing issues with the synchronisation of
stimulus code in Presentation with pulses from the scanner. This problem
has been intermittent and inconsistent. As many scans rely on precise
timings by synch-ing with specific pulses from the scanner, we have had
to come up with an alternate solution.
Without boring you with the fine detail, we are using a different port
on the scanner to provide us with the pulse information. After extensive
testing this afternoon, this port seems to give consistent output while
the other does not.
Anyone using pulses from the scanner to synchronise their presentation
stimuli should note the following:
Change "pulses_per_scan" in your scenario header (.sce files) to the
actual number of slices you are acquiring. In the past this has been set
to half the number (e.g. if you were acquiring 38 slices per TR you had
pulses_per_scan = 19). Just to make that clear, YOU SHOULD DOUBLE THE
NUMBER YOU CURRENTLY HAVE IN pulses_per_scan.
N.B. YOU MUST CHANGE THESE NUMBERS WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT OR YOUR TIMINGS
WILL BE INCORRECT.
Also note that when you run your pulses calibration scan you will now
get twice the number of pulses you got before.
This will not affect your data in any way, it simply means that you are
getting a pulse for every slice from the scanner, rather than every
second slice.
This will work for all TRs, and the back room settings should now be the
same for all researchers.
If you have any queries, please contact me.
Andre'
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Andre'
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Andre Gouws
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 435327
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear Users
This week Andre Gouws will be giving a presentation on Thursday
afternoon (4-5 pm) in YNiC open plan.
The title of Andre's talk is "Suppressive feedback from the visual
cortex to the LGN: Evidence from negative BOLD".
This presentation will include results and discussion of data presented
at SFN this year, and will conclude with a project presentation for
extension of the current work.
Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be available afterwards.
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Andre Gouws
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 435327
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear Users,
just to let you know that due to staff training on the 7th December 2010
the YNiC Open Plan area will be closed to all users on that date between
9am and 4pm.
MRI scanning will be continuing as usual.
Apologies for any inconvenience that this may cause.
Thanks and regards,
Jo.
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Jo Saunders
Centre Manager
YNiC
The BioCentre
York Science Park
YORK
YO10 5DG
Email: Joanna(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Tel: (01904) 435343
Fax: (01904) 435356
Tues, Wed & Thurs
.............................
Dear Users
Today (starting at 4 pm) Beth Jefferies from the Department of Psychology
will give a talk on "TMS studies of semantic cognition".
In this talk, Beth will discuss recent studies examining the extended
neural networks underpinning semantic representation and control, talk about
the new equipment that is in the YNiC TMS lab, and describe a planned
study which combines TMS and fMRI to investigate how this brain
network responds to stimulation.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
York
YO10 5DG
Email: rem(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Tel: 01904 435 5373
