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14 Jan '10

Dear Users Today (4-5 pm in YNiC open plan) there will be a project proposal presentation by Richard Harris on "How information about expression and identity is represented in face-selective regions". Richard will be talking about a planned fMRI experiment in which he will use an fMR adaptation paradigm to determine whether expression and identity are represented independently in face-selective brain areas. Everyone is welcome to attend. Best wishes Rebecca -- ************************************************************************ 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

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YNiC seminar 14th January
by rem 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Dear Users This Thursday (4-5 pm in YNiC open plan) there will be a project proposal presentation by Richard Harris on "How information about expression and identity is represented in face-selective regions". Richard will be talking about a planned fMRI experiment in which he will use an fMR adaptation paradigm to determine whether expression and identity are represented independently in face-selective brain areas. Everyone is welcome to attend. Best wishes Rebecca -- ************************************************************************ 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

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[Fwd: International Congress in Konstanz]
by Gary Green 16 Dec '09

16 Dec '09

from a colleague that many of you will remember --------------------------------------- Dear colleagues, there will be an international congress "Changing People, Changing Brains" in Konstanz next year (see: http://www.psychologie.uni-konstanz.de/abteilungen/clinicalpsychology/chang… and the flyer attached). There are sixteen travel awards (travel, accomodation, attendance) for outstanding junior scientists. Interested people can apply for the travel awards via the homepage. Would you be so kind to forward this email to people who might be interested? Thank you very much! Isabella -- *Dr. Isabella Paul-Jordanov* http://www.clinical-psychology.uni-konstanz.de/member-55.html University of Konstanz, Germany Departments of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology PO-Box D23 D-78457 Konstanz Email: Isabella.Paul-Jordanov(a)uni-konstanz.de <mailto:Isabella.Paul-Jordanov@uni-konstanz.de> Tel.: +49 7531 882696 Fax: +49 7531 884601 -- Gary Green York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park Innovation Way Heslington York YO10 5DG http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/about-us/people/ggrg tel. +44 (0) 1904 435349 PA (Sara Narayan) +44 (0) 1904 435329 fax +44 (0) 1904 435356 mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004

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FW: post-doctoral job offer
by Ekaterini Klepousniotou 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

This may be of interest to some. Best wishes for the holiday season, Katerina ****************************************************************** Dr. Ekaterini Klepousniotou Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuropsychology Institute of Psychological Sciences University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT UK Tel: +44 (0)113 3435716 Fax: +44 (0)113 3435749 ________________________________ From: bic-announce-bounces(a)bic.mni.mcgill.ca [bic-announce-bounces(a)bic.mni.mcgill.ca] On Behalf Of Jennifer Chew, Ms. [jennifer.chew(a)mcgill.ca] Sent: 14 December 2009 18:26 To: bic-announce(a)bic.mni.mcgill.ca Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: post-doctoral job offer Posted on behalf of Pierre Bellec . Jennifer ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Saad Jbabdi <saad(a)fmrib.ox.ac.uk<mailto:saad@fmrib.ox.ac.uk>> Date: 2009/12/14 Subject: Re: TF diagrams To: Pierre Bellec <pbellec(a)bic.mni.mcgill.ca<mailto:pbellec@bic.mni.mcgill.ca>> -- Postdoctoral Research Assistant: Modelling Brain Connectivity Oxford University Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB) Academic-related salary scale, Grade 7: Salary £28,839 – 35,469 p.a. The Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB) seeks a postdoctoral research assistant to work with Drs. Tim Behrens and Saad Jbabdi in diffusion MRI methods development. Employment could begin from March 2010 and is funded by the European Commission for a period of 2 years as part of a pan-European consortium of diffusion-imaging researchers “CONNECT”. Oxford’s contribution to this project aims to integrate biophysical models of white matter architecture into Bayesian tractography routines. Candidates should have a doctorate in a relevant discipline, together with knowledge of statistics and preferably Bayesian learning, with the necessary mathematical and computational skills to put these into practice. Knowledge in methods for analysing neuroimaging data, in particular diffusion MRI, is desirable but not essential. Skills in computer programming (especially Matlab and C++) are essential. For links to further information seewww.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/analysis<http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/analysis>. Applications, including a curriculum vitae and details of two referees, should be sent to Mrs Marilyn Goulding, FMRIB Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, fax: (01865) 222717; e‑mail: marilyn(a)fmrib.ox.ac.uk<mailto:marilyn@fmrib.ox.ac.uk>. Please quote reference HM09-024. The closing date for applications is January 8th 2010. -- Saad Jbabdi University of Oxford, FMRIB Centre JR Hospital, Headington, OX3 9DU, UK +44 (0) 1865 222466 (fax 717) www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~saad<http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/%7Esaad> --

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[Fwd: MRes+PhD/PhD studentships available at UCL: deadline for applications 29th Jan 2010]
by Gary Green 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

FYI ------------------------------------- ESRC STUDENTSHIPS FOR MRes+PhD/PhD: UCL Centre for Human Communication DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Friday 29th January 2010 The UCL Centre for Human Communication (CHC) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded two quota ESRC studentships for the academic year commencing September 2010 and is additionally able to nominate applications for an ESRC open competition studentship. ESRC studentships provide up to four years full funding for postgraduate training. They cover tuition fees and include a maintenance grant. The CHC will consider applicants for 1+3 quota and open studentships for the MRes in Speech, Language and Cognition followed by PhD research within the CHC group. Information about the MRes can be found at http://tinyurl.com/yb9p5d2 We will also consider applicants who have completed relevant Masters-level training for a 3 year PhD studentship within the CHC. The CHC is a virtual centre that exists to foster interaction amongst UCL staff who are involved in research on human language and communication. Research spans an unusual range of disciplines, from those traditionally considered to lie in the humanities and social sciences, to those of a more scientific, engineering and medical aspect. Areas studied include, among others: * basic aspects of hearing, speech and language, both in the adult and the developing child; * linguistic theory concerning syntax, phonology and pragmatics; * speech production and speech perception; * acquisition of first and later-learned languages; * sign languages; * developmental language disorders like stuttering, dyslexia and specific language impairment; * acquired language disorders like aphasia and dysarthria; * hearing impairments and their remediation through training and prostheses (hearing aids and cochlear implants); * speech recognition and speech synthesis by computer. More information about the CHC can be found at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chc/ Applicants should send a CV, covering letter and the names and email addresses of two referees to Dr Bronwen Evans at bronwen.evans(a)ucl.ac.uk. The covering letter should include an outline of the applicant's principal research interests. Applications for the 3 year PhD studentships only must also outline a plan of the intended research. Ideally, this plan should have been discussed with a potential supervisor based at UCL. Staff details can be found at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/staff All applications are subject to the ESRC’s nationality and residency restrictions and applicants are also asked to indicate in their submission that they meet these criteria. Information about these are available in the ESRC's Postgraduate Funding Guide, which applicants are strongly advised to consult when completing their application. This can be downloaded at http://tinyurl.com/y8tm2qa Deadline: Friday 29th January 2009. Applications received after this date will still be considered for admission but will be too late to be considered for the ESRC quota studentship. ----------------------------- Dr Bronwen G. Evans, UCL Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, Rm 321 Chandler House 2 Wakefield Street London WC1N 1PF Tel +44 (0) 20 7679 4089 (internal: 24089) Fax +44 (0) 20 7679 4010 http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk

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[Fwd: Job Posting]
by Gary Green 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

FYI - attached email from Varian -- ----------------------- Gary Green telephone +44 (0) 1904 435349 fax +44 (0) 1904 435356 Secretary telephone +44 (0) 1904 435329 http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/about-us/people/ggrg mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004

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end of YNiC seminars this term
by rem 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Dear Users YNiC seminars have finished for this term due to clashes with other events in the department. The Thursday seminar series will start again on 14th January 2010. Best wishes Rebecca

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Important news from YNiC
by Gary Green 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Dear colleagues Over Christmas we will be carrying out some essential maintenance to the MEG facilities. The most important job that we will be doing is warming the sensor dewar. During the past year the dewar will have slowly accumulated a small amount of solid oxygen, nitrogen and water in the bottom of the Helium reservoir and this affects the insulation properties of the system. By warming the system up we can remove all the frozen solids. The system will be cleaned out and then we will be cooling it down again to liquid Helium temperatures. We will do the final Helium fill on the morning of the 18th of December. We lose 20% of the Helium a day so the dewar will effectively cease to be at liquid Helium temperatures from the 23rd. We would not advise anyone to carry out experiments from the 21st onwards as the characteristics of the system cannot be guaranteed once the Helium level goes below about 15%. The system will be allowed to warm up over Christmas and we will start work on a number of maintenance jobs in the new year. These will culminate with the recooling of the MEG dewar starting on the 10th of January. This should take 5 days. We plan to allow MEG experiments to resume on the 17th. I hope that you will be pleased to hear that a major quarterly maintenance of the MRI system on Friday went very smoothly. A new cooling system was installed and this should improve air flow through the bore of the magnet. There had also been a problem with some coherent noise being observed on some scans (not head scans) and the cause of this was located and removed. -- ----------------------- Gary Green telephone +44 (0) 1904 435349 fax +44 (0) 1904 435356 Secretary telephone +44 (0) 1904 435329 http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/about-us/people/ggrg mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004

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YNiC seminar today
by rem 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Dear Users This afternoon (4-5 pm in YNiC open plan) I will be giving a talk on "Spatiotemporal reconstruction of the auditory steady-state response to frequency modulation using magnetoencephalography". Everyone is welcome to attend. Best wishes Rebecca

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FW: CCNi debate invite - 1st February 2010
by Antony Morland 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

This may be of interest. Tony Invitation to the CCNi debate - 'Does BOLD fMRI reveal Pseudo Neuronal Activity?' We would like to invite you to the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi) debate on Monday 1st February 2010 at 2pm. The debate will be chaired by CCNi director Professor Philippe G. Schyns and will feature 4 international panel members debating the topic 'Does BOLD fMRI reveal Pseudo Neuronal Activity?' Panel members are: Professor Aniruddha Das (Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University); Professor Martin Lauritzen (Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Glostrup Hospital, Denmark); Professor Nikos Logothetis (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen); Dr Ahalya Viswanathan (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen) Synopsis: Cognitive Neuroscience depends on a proper interpretation of brain imaging signals. Former interpretation has been simple, comparing number of spiking neurons with average BOLD signals (i.e. Rees, Friston, Koch 2000, Nat Neurosci.). What is the state-of-the art interpretation of BOLD today? Results of Sirotin and Das (2009, Nature; and Devor et al. 2008, JNS) have questioned the simple interpretation of BOLD by providing evidence for BOLD-signal without neuronal activity. Is there a non-neuronal source for the BOLD signal? Is there a brain activity signal that is missed by electrophysiology? Does an activated region reflect activation in this region or elsewhere (e.g. in the form of feedback)? How should state-of-the-art models of neurovascular coupling affect the interpretation of brain imaging data? (Logothetis 2008, Nature Reviews; Viswanathan and Freeman 2007, Nat Neurosci.; Lauritzen 2005 Nature Reviews). Scientific co-ordinator: Dr Lars Muckli, CCNi. Please see attached flyer for event schedule and to register your place please reply to me with your details. We look forward to hearing from you! Kind regards Claire Claire Gallagher, CCNi Administrator Department of Psychology University of Glasgow 58 Hillhead Street G12 8QB Tel: 0141 330 3201 Fax: 0141 330 5086 http://www.ccni.gla.ac.uk <http://www.ccni.gla.ac.uk/> The University of Glasgow, charity number: SC004401 ========================================

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