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Who Is Using It?

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Institutions Where PyMVPA Is Known To Be Used

• Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, USA
• Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, USA
• Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University, USA
• Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
• Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Department of Neurology, Max Planck Insititute for Neurological Research, Cologne, Germany
• MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
• Department of Experimental Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany
• Donders Center for Cognition, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
• Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
• Center for Functional Neuroimaging, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Brain & Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, USA
• Imaging Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
• Department of Psychology, Yale University, USA

Studies employing PyMVPA

• Carlin et al., Cerebral Cortex (In press, 2011): Direction-Sensitive Codes for Observed Head Turns in Human Superior Temporal Sulcus.
• Kubilius et al., Psychological Science (In press, 2011): Emergence of perceptual gestalts in the human visual cortex: The case of the configural superiority effect. Complete suite of sources from stimuli delivery (PsychoPy) to data analysis (PyMVPA) is available from https://bitbucket.org/qbilius/confsup/src
• Manelis et al., Cerebral Cortex (2011): Dynamic Changes In The Medial Temporal Lobe During Incidental Learning Of Object–Location Associations.
• Meyer et al., Cerebral Cortex (2011): Seeing Touch Is Correlated with Content-Specific Activity in Primary Somatosensory Cortex.
• Woolgar et al., NeuroImage (2010): Multi-voxel coding of stimuli, rules, and responses in human frontoparietal cortex.
• Clithero et al., NeuroImage (2010): Within- and cross-participant classifiers reveal different neural coding of information.
• Gilliam et al., Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (2010): Scribe Identification in Medieval English Manuscripts.
• Cohen at al., Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2010): Decoding Developmental Differences and Individual Variability in Response Inhibition Through Predictive Analyses Across Individuals.
• Meyer et al., Nature Neuroscience (2010): Predicting visual stimuli based on activity in auditory cortices.
• Manelis et al., Human Brain Mapping (2010): Implicit memory for object locations depends on reactivation of encoding-related brain regions.
• Trautmann et al., IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2009): Development of an autonomous robot for ground penetrating radar surveys of polar ice.
• Sun et al., Biological Psychiatry (2009): Elucidating an MRI-Based Neuroanatomic Biomarker for Psychosis: Classification Analysis Using Probabilistic Brain Atlas and Machine Learning Algorithms.

Articles referring to PyMVPA

• Schackman et al., Nature Reviews Neuroscience (2011). The integration of negative affect, pain and cognitive control in the cingulate cortex.
• Margulies et al., Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine (2010): Resting developments: a review of fMRI post-processing methodologies for spontaneous brain activity.
• Shiffrin, Topics in Cognitive Science, (2010): Perspectives on Modeling in Cognitive Science.
• LaConte, NeuroImage (2010): Decoding fMRI brain states in real-time.
• Legge & Badii, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Emerging Network Intelligence (2010): An Application of Pattern Matching for the Adjustment of Quality of ServiceMetrics.
• Spacek et al., The Neuromorphic Engineer (2009): Python in Neuroscience.
• Bandettini, Journal of Integrative Neuroscience (2009): Seven topics in functional magnetic reasonance imaging.
• Garcia et al., Frontiers in Neuroinformatics (2009): OpenElectrophy: An Electrophysiological Data- and Analysis-Sharing Framework.
• Mur et al., Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (2009): Revealing representational content with pattern-information fMRI – an introductory guide.
• Pereira et al., NeuroImage (2009): Machine learning classifiers and fMRI: A tutorial overview.