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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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