Institutions & Associations
Research centers
· Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences@U Rochester
· Center for Language Sciences@U Rochester
· Rochester Center for Brain Imaging@U Rochester
· IGERT Program@UCONN
Professional societies
· Society for the Neurobiology of Language
· ASA — Acoustical Society of America
· ISCA — International Speech Communication Association
· Association for Laboratory Phonology
· American Psychological Association
Psycholinguistic Resources
Psycholinguistic databases
· MRC Psycholinguistic Database
· CELEX database by Max Planck Institue — lexical information for English, Dutch and German
· USF Free Association Norms database
Speech databases
· OSCAAR Online Speech/Corpora Archive and Analysis Resource– a collection of cross-linguistic speech recordings collected by Northwestern University
· Speech Accent Archive — scripted recordings of English in various native and non-native accents
· IDEA— International Dialects of English Archive
· The IViE Corpus— English intonation in the Britain
Speech processing and analysis tools
· A collection of Praat scripts collected by UCLA Linguistics
· A collection of sound processing tools by Northwestern University
· Praat Scripts from UC Berkeley Phonology Lab
· Forced Aligner by UPenn
· Penn Phonetics Toolkit by UPenn
Psycholinguistic analysis tools
· The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary — great for phonetic transcription
· IPhOD — a phonological dictionary + caculator for lexical properties (e.g. neighborhood density)
· CLEARPOND — Cross-Linguistic Easy-Access Resource for Phonological and Orthographic Neighborhood Densities
· English Lexicon Project — calculator for lexical properties and access to behavioral data from lexcial tasks
· Phonological Corpus Tools — an open-source tool for doing phonological analysis on transcribed corpora
Other handy resources
· Northwestern Linguistics Resources
· A program for running experiments over the web
Neuroimaging Resources
Software
· AFNI — fMRI Analysis toolbox by Bob Cox
· Princeton Multivoxel Pattern Analysis Toolbox
· PyMPVA — Multivariate Pattern Analysis in Python
fMRI databases
· Neurosynth — a platform for large-scale, automated synthesis of fMRI data. Great for checking out coordinates across studies.
· OpenfMRI— a repository of MRI and EEG data.
Helpful MRI blogs and tutorials
· mumfordbrainstats tutorials on fMRI analysis by Jeanette Mumford
· Andy’s Brain Blog by Andy Jahn
· The CogNeuroStats Blog by Peter Molfese
· MIT’s imaging mindhive by Gabrieli lab
· Imaging wiki by the MRC Unit @Cambridge
Books and reading lists
· Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging — an introductory textbook on fMRI.
· Handbook of Functional MRI Analysis — a comprehensive yet easy-to-read book on imaging analysis. A must!
· Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data — a great overview of statistical methodology used in processing fMRI data.
· MRI reading list by Jonathan Peelle
· SPM bibliography — classic methodological papers
Online courses
· Coursera fMRI course by Tor Wager and Martin Lindquist
· fMRI lecture recordings by The University of Michigan
· UCLA neuroimaging summer programs with videos and slides