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
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Have a good week and hope to see you on Thursday.
Andre' pp Tony Morland
Hello All,
This week's seminar will be given by Magdalena Sliwinska who is a post-doctoral researcher at Imperial, working with Richard Wise. Please join us at YNiC. - 16:15 Thursday the 23rd @ YNiC for her presentation which will be:
*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.
Have a good week and hope to see you on Thursday.
Andre'
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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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Andre Gouws