After the CNS symposium on building a cumulative cognitive neuroscience, several people I talked to said it was a pity there wasn’t an online repository where all the sites that the speakers discussed could be accessed. I should have thought of that ahead of time, because even if we made one now, no one would ever find it. So, belatedly, the best I can do is put together a list here, where I’m pretty sure no one’s ever going to read it.
Anyway, this is mostly from memory, so I may be forgetting some of the things people talked about, but here’s what I can remember:
- Sums DB (the Van Essen’s lab giant database of fMRI-related data)
- BrainMap (the other major fMRI database; interfaces nicely with meta-analysis tools available here)
- The Cognitive Atlas (project discussed in Russ Poldrack’s talk)
- PubBrain (ditto)
- The Neuroscience Information Framework (mentioned in Van Essen’s talk)
- Tor Wager’s lab website (full of downloadable software for meta-analysis and other nifty stuff)
Let me know if there’s anything I’m leaving out.
On a related note, several people at the conference asked me for my slides, but I promptly forgot who they were, so here they are.
UPDATED: Russ Poldrack’s slides are now also on the web here.
Great collection of neuroscience resources from the symposium—really helpful for anyone exploring cognitive neuroscience research and open data initiatives. As we also review different SaaS tools at TheSoftReview, we found it valuable to see how specialized research tools and repositories contribute to better knowledge sharing and accessibility in scientific communities.