Research Topic

Functional MRI:
Beyond the blob

Andy Smith highlights limitations of the fMRI group analysis and proposes that researchers consider abandoning them in favour of multiple single-subject analyses. View the basis for this assumption in his highly insightful lecture, which is available with slides and audio on our website.

Other News at CRS

Durham University - New MSc course trains students using CRS tools

From October 2007, Durham University will be offering a new MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience. A core element of the course that will be of particular interest to the Vision Science community is specialised training in techniques such as display calibration, stimulus generation, response recording and eye tracking.

In partnership with Cambridge Research Systems, Durham will be offering classes in MATLAB programming and the practical application of CRS equipment, like the ViSaGe stimulus generator and Video Eyetracker Toolbox, to research questions in cognitive neuroscience. Students will also have! the opportunity to participate in internships at CRS. Steve Elliott from CRS says "we are very excited about this new collaboration with the Department of Psychology. I hope the internships will offer complementary practical experience and will allow the students to put their new technical expertise in the context of a commercial R&D department".

We are also pleased to announce that Durham plan to offer the practical part of the MSc as an intensive, 1-week residential program open to all graduate students. We hope this will be of particular interest to any of our existing and future customers that plan to use MATLAB in their CRS-equipped lab.

Staff in the Spotlight

This new section is going to be all about putting faces to some of the names here at CRS, and what better place to start than the newest members of the team.

In April Jill Legane joined the company as Operations Manager. She is initiating and overseeing the input of processess to increase efficiency and organisation here at CRS; freeing up our other staff and their time to do what they do best.

In June I joined the company as Marketing Assistant. My name is Katy Smith and I work closely with the sales team to coordinate all our marketing activities. You'll often see me at conferences: when we are sponsoring a speaker, I will be on-hand to record the! talk.

Product News from CRS

MRI-Live! - a totally unique tool for human brain mapping now offers binocular eye tracking at 250Hz

MRI-Live!'s novel design harnesses a completely innovative combination of technologies that enable it to display stereoscopic stimuli with a 90 degree visual field and a spatial resolution double that of any other method commercially available. The eye tracking capability has just bee! n upgraded and now allows both eyes to be tracked independently at 250Hz. MRI-Live! makes it possible to fully immerse your subject in a virtual reality environment and, with such simple and fast set up, it really does utilise every minute of your precious scan time. We are confident that MRI-Live! sets a new standard for stimulus display and eye tracking in fMRI, so contact us to find out how you can add its features to your MRI scanner.

MRI-Live! Reference Sites - come and take a look!


We are pleased to announce that Aston MRI Research Centre will be our reference site for MRI-Live! in the UK. Our thanks go to long term CRS customers Prof. Stephen Anderson and Dr. Ian Holliday of Aston University, who have been leaders in the field of functional imaging research for many years. For information about our other reference sites, including the University of Regensburg in Germany, visit the ! MRI-Live! website at www.mri-live.com

Conferences

Make a visit to our stand at the following events, where we can discuss the ins and outs of MRI-Live! with you in person.

Vision Society of Japan, Toyahashi, Japan 23rd to 25th July

Tom Robson and our Japanese distributors Namoto will be happy to explain the MRI-Live! concept using our fantastic scale model.

Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California 3rd to 7th Nov

Steve Elliott, Jill Legane and Katy Smith will be available to answer any questions you might have about MRI-Live! or any of our other tools for vision research.

And don't forget about these upcoming conferences that we will also be attending during 2007:

ECEM, Germany - 19th to 23rd August.
ECVP, Italy - 27th to 31st August.
OSA, USA - 16th to 19 September.