Hi everyone
This Tuesday 2nd July at 1pm we will have a site visit by the Chair of the
Wellcome Trust, Eliza Manningham-Buller. If you are in open plan or
scanning during this time, please behave professionally.
Our next YNiC user induction is provisionally planned for *Wednesday 10th
July *(time TBC). If you are aware of any students/staff that will require
an IT account for YNiC, they must complete a User Induction first. Please
ask them to contact support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up for the next
induction date.
Hope you have a good week.
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
We have a few announcements for you this week:
*Summer Closure*
We would like to give you advanced notice of our summer closure period,
which will take place between the 2nd and 20th September. During this
period we will perform essential IT upgrades and maintenance. There will be
no access to the centre (including remotely), and no support will be
provided over this period.
*Screening Participants*
We know that we have had to turn away participants on the day that they
attend for scanning. We also know that this is very frustrating for
researchers. The situation can occur for all participant groups, but is
more frequent in special or elderly populations. Our existing advice is to
ensure that you speak with your participant *before* the day of their scan
to go through the screening form, and obtained any Level 3 signatures
required. We know that this is done routinely, but we have a couple of
further suggestions:
- First, be absolutely clear that the questions you will be asking are
vital to ensure participant safety, and that each participant should answer
fully and take time to consider their answers.
- Second, make the participant aware that having participated in a scan
before does not mean that they will be clear for an upcoming scan; they
need to consider each question carefully and identify anything that they
may have previously had approved by an operator
- Finally, and related to the previous point, knowing that a participant
has been scanned before is not a guarantee that that same participant will
be eligible for an upcoming scan, because of any potential change in their
status or indeed changes in safety regulations governing who may be scanned.
*YNiC User Inductions*
We are running our next YNiC user induction this *Wednesday 26th June* at
the updated time of *4pm*. If you are aware of any students/staff that will
require an IT account for YNiC, they must complete a User Induction first.
Please ask them to contact support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up for the next
induction date.
Hope you have a good week.
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
- We will be running our next *YNiC user induction on Wednesday 26th June
at 2pm*. If you are aware of any students/staff that will require an IT
account for YNiC, they must complete a User Induction first. Please ask
them to contact support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up for the next induction
date.
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
Just one notice this week, there will be no support at YNiC on Wednesday
12th June, due to staff attending the Yorkshire Vision Network meeting.
The centre will still be open for use.
Hope you have a good week.
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
Please be aware that the majority of YNiC staff will be unavailable on 12th
June for the Yorkshire Vision Network meeting. Therefore, there will be no
support or operator cover on this day, but the centre will still be open.
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi all
Please be aware that next week (w/c 3rd June) we have very limited Level 3
availability for signing off safety forms. If you have any participants
being scanned next week that will need a signature you must get these
signed-off no later than Monday afternoon.
You can get the participant safety form printed at reception, and you can
also hand these back to reception once the forms are signed if you have
nowhere safe to store them before the scan. Reception will attach the
signed form to the general consent sheet, which you can collect as normal
on the day of the scan.
It should be noted that it is standard procedure to obtain signatures in
advance of the scan day - we cannot guarantee that booked scans will go
ahead if a signature is not obtained in advance.
We appreciate your understanding in this process, and in the importance of
participant safety over research.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
Just a reminder that we have guest speaker Dr Vincent Costa giving a talk
at YNiC this afternoon at 4pm, followed by refreshments. This promises to
be an interesting session, and we encourage you all to attend:
-
*Title: *More than a feeling: A comparison of amygdala and ventral striatum
contributions to reinforcement learning
*Abstract:* If you ask a neuroscientist about emotion, they would probably
give you the skinny about every amygdala study ever written. If you ask
them about reward, they would probably give you a syllabus filled with
references to the ventral striatum. But I’ll bet they can’t tell you what
specific computations are computed in the amygdala relative to the ventral
striatum. This is because traditional views of reinforcement learning have
held that the striatum integrates dopaminergic reward prediction errors to
facilitate learning, but have not ascribed a specific role for the
amygdala. After decades of research suggesting the amygdala mainly
contributes to emotion and simpler forms of associative learning,
researchers are just beginning to explore the computational boundaries of
amygdala function. The emerging perspective, which I will discuss, is that
standard accounts of reinforcement learning that emphasize stratal and
cortical contributions, should be revised to include a key role for the
amygdala.
Hope to see you there!
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
I hope you had a good Bank Holiday weekend.
This week we have two talks at YNiC:
1. *Wednesday 29th at 2pm* - project presentation by Dr Daniel
Baker on *"Electromagnetic
indices of spatial summation in visual cortex*"
2. *Thursday 30th at 4pm *- guest speaker Dr Vincent Costa will be
visiting us from Oregon Health & Science University. This promises to be
an interesting session, and we encourage you all to attend:
*Title: *More than a feeling: A comparison of amygdala and ventral
striatum contributions to reinforcement learning
*Abstract:* If you ask a neuroscientist about emotion, they would
probably give you the skinny about every amygdala study ever written. If
you ask them about reward, they would probably give you a syllabus filled
with references to the ventral striatum. But I’ll bet they can’t tell you
what specific computations are computed in the amygdala relative to the
ventral striatum. This is because traditional views of reinforcement
learning have held that the striatum integrates dopaminergic reward
prediction errors to facilitate learning, but have not ascribed a specific
role for the amygdala. After decades of research suggesting the amygdala
mainly contributes to emotion and simpler forms of associative learning,
researchers are just beginning to explore the computational boundaries of
amygdala function. The emerging perspective, which I will discuss, is that
standard accounts of reinforcement learning that emphasize stratal and
cortical contributions, should be revised to include a key role for the
amygdala.
Both talks will take place in YNiC open plan, and will be followed by
refreshments.
We hope to see you there!
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
We have a couple of updates for you this week:
1. We now have new monitors for all of the stimulus PCs, which have a
resolution of 1920x1080, and are capable of 120Hz refresh rate. We will
add instructions next to each stim PC on how to check/change the refresh
rate on your user profile.
2. The centre will be *closed on Monday 27th May*, for the bank holiday.
3. We will be running our next *YNiC user induction this Wednesday 22nd
May at 2pm*. If you are aware of any students/staff that will require
an IT account for YNiC, they must complete a User Induction first.
Please ask them to contact support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up for the
next induction date.
Hope you have a good week!
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
This week we have a Project Presentation at* 4pm on Thursday* in YNiC open
plan, from Dr Magda Sliwinska and Dr David Pitcher on "Investigating how
the parietal cortex contributes to foreign language learning". The talk
will be followed by refreshments.
*IMPORTANT REMINDER: *We will be running clinical scanning on GE tomorrow
(Tuesday 14th May), which will overlap with the MSc scanning on Siemens.
If you are scanning during these sessions please act professionally,
particularly around the reception and MRI corridor.
Hope you have a great week.
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
