Section: New Results

NeuroVault.org: a web-based repository for collecting and sharing unthresholded statistical maps of the human brain

Here we present NeuroVault — a web based repository that allows researchers to store, share, visualize, and decode statistical maps of the human brain. NeuroVault is easy to use and employs modern web technologies to provide informative visualization of data without the need to install additional software. In addition, it leverages the power of the Neurosynth database to provide cognitive decoding of deposited maps. The data are exposed through a public REST API enabling other services and tools to take advantage of it. NeuroVault is a new resource for researchers interested in conducting meta- and coactivation analyses.

Comparison of image based and coordinate based meta analysis of response inhibition. Meta analysis based on unthresholded statistical maps obtained from NeuroVault (top row) managed to recover the pattern of activation obtained using traditional methods despite including much fewer studies. NeuroVault map has been thresholded at $z=6$, response inhibition map has been thresholded at $z=1.77$ (the threshold values were chosen for visualization purposes only, but both are statistically significant at $p<0.05$). Unthresholded versions of these maps are available at http://neurovault.org/collections/439/

More information can be found in [18] and [17] .