Dear All,
The TMS equipment has now moved into the Stimulus Preparation Room, off the
open plan area. The door will be locked, but a key may be borrowed from
reception to gain access. Please lock the door and return the key when you
are finished.
Best wishes
Tony
Dear Users
The ECR forum have organised a "Families in Science" event from 2-5 pm
this Thursday that will be held in the Department of Psychology.
Therefore there will not be a YNiC seminar this week.
Best wishes
Rebecca
Apologies for cross postings..
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From: Lisa Schubert [mailto:lisa.schubert@hyms.ac.uk]
Sent: 12 November 2009 10:13
To: Lisa Schubert
Subject: University of York: Cell and Molecular Biology Lunch Club - Mon
16th November
If you would like to meet with Professor Miesenboeck during his visit,
please contact Sean Sweeney (sts1(a)york.ac.uk)
CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LUNCH CLUB
Monday 16th November 2009, 1.15pm
Room K018, Biology
Professor Geor Miesenboeck
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford
"The beginnings of optogenetics "
Abstract:
Light-sensitive proteins encoded in DNA can serve as selective optical
interfaces for observing and controlling genetically targeted neurons in
functioning circuits, in vitro and in vivo. Light-emitting sensors of
neuronal activity (reporting calcium increase, neurotransmitter release, or
membrane depolarization) have begun to reveal how information is represented
by neuronal assemblies, and how these representations are transformed during
the computations that inform behaviour. Light-driven actuators control the
electrical activity of central neurons in freely moving animals and
establish causal connections between the activities of specific neurons and
the expression of particular behaviours. The combination of finely resolved
optical field sensing and finely resolved optical field actuation is opening
new dimensions for the analysis of the connectivity, dynamics, and
plasticity of neuronal circuits, and perhaps even for replacing lost---or
designing novel---functionalities.
Host: Sean Sweeney (sts1(a)york.ac.uk)
--
Centre for Immunology and Infection
Department of Biology and Hull York Medical School
University of York
P O Box 373
York
YO10 5YW
Tel: 01904 328845
Fax: 01904 328844
www.york.ac.uk/res/cii
Dear Users
4-5 pm in YNiC open plan.
Silvia Gennari will give a talk on "Effects of implied physical effort
in sensory-motor and pre-frontal cortex during language comprehension".
This talk will be based on the article by Claire Moody and Silvia
Gennari that is currently "in press" in NeuroImage.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
Article title: Effects of implied physical effort in sensory-motor and
pre-frontal cortex during language comprehension
Reference: YNIMG6471
Journal title: Neuroimage
Corresponding author: Dr. Silvia P. Gennari
First author: Dr. Claire L. Moody
Received at Elsevier: 27-JUL-2009
Final version published online: 17-OCT-2009
Full bibliographic details: Neuroimage 49 (2010), pp. 782-793
DOI information: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.07.065
The attached paper from the Helsinki group reporting direct comparisons of
MEG and fMRI responses during the naming of objects and actions may be of
interest.
Andy
Dear Users
This week Silvia Gennari will give a talk on "Effects of implied
physical effort in sensory-motor and pre-frontal cortex during language
comprehension". This talk will be based on the article by Claire Moody
and Silvia Gennari that is currently "in press" in NeuroImage.
YNiC seminars take place from 4-5 pm in YNiC open plan.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
Article title: Effects of implied physical effort in sensory-motor and
pre-frontal cortex during language comprehension
Reference: YNIMG6471
Journal title: Neuroimage
Corresponding author: Dr. Silvia P. Gennari
First author: Dr. Claire L. Moody
Received at Elsevier: 27-JUL-2009
Final version published online: 17-OCT-2009
Full bibliographic details: Neuroimage 49 (2010), pp. 782-793
DOI information: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.07.065
Hello all,
Just a quick reminder that open plan will again be very busy between
13:00 and 15:30 this afternoon for the MSc course. Last week all the
machines were in use so it's unlikely there'll be any space today.
Thanks,
Sam
"Highlights from the Society for Neuroscience meeting"
4-5 pm in YNiC Open Plan
Tony Morland and Tim Andrews will tell us about their trip to the SfN
meeting in Chicago.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
--
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
4-5 pm in YNiC Open Plan, this Thursday (5th)
Tony Morland and Tim Andrews will tell us about their trip to the SfN in
Chicago.
"Highlights from the SfN meeting"
All welcome
Refreshments will be served as usual
--
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
Secretary (Claire Fox) +44 (0) 1904 435329
fax +44 (0) 1904 435356
mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004
Learning and limits on adult plasticity for speech
Dr Jason Zevin
Sackler Institute for Psychobiology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York, USA
4.30pm, Monday November 9 2009
Psychology A202 (Venables)
One way to understand changes in plasticity over the course of
development (e.g. sensitive period phenomena) is as a result of the
process of learning itself. This is readily observed even in simple
neural network models. Learning to categorize speech sounds in one's
native language can be characterized as a process of tuning the
perceptual system to the dimensions along which change is meaningful in
that language. One consequence of this process is a diminished
sensitivity to foreign language (L2) contrasts that differ along
dimensions not contrastive in one's native phonetic inventory, which
ultimately can result in failures to learn even after many years of
exposure. This specialization is also reflected in the responses of a
network of left-lateralized temporal and frontal cortical regions which
respond differentially to native speech contrasts relative to unfamiliar
L2 sounds and control stimuli not perceived as crossing a categorical
boundary. I will present a series of studies combining behavioral,
electroencephalographic and fMRI techniques to examine the traces of
early experience on the adult speech perception system.
ORGANISED BY JELENA MIRKOVIC
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Dr Silke Goebel
Department of Psychology
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 43 2872
Email: s.goebel(a)psych.york.ac.uk
Web: http://www.york.ac.uk/res/crl/sgoebel.html
TMS Lab: http://www.york.ac.uk/res/tms
