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Major FMRI Software Packages

Most of our FMRI pre- and post-processing analyses depend on these major packages.

AFNI: A wonderful all-encompassing set of FMRI design, analysis, and presentation tools. Available for multiple platforms for free from the National Institute of Mental Health.

FSL: Comprehensive software package for FMRI design, analysis, and presentation with particular strength in analysis. Includes one of the best software packages available for Independent Component Analysis (ICA) of FMRI data. Available for multiple platforms for free from the University of Oxford FMRIB Analysis Group.

SPM: Comprehensive software package for FMRI design, analysis, and presentation and perhaps the most popular package used today. We rarely use SPM. A MATLAB license is required. Available from University College London Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging.

MATLAB: Industry-leading software for matrix mathematics. Essential for many FMRI analysis tasks and used extensively in functional connectivity analyses. This is a commercial product vailable from Mathworks, Inc.