CONN team

The Computational Neuroscience Research Lab, headed by Alfonso Nieto-Castanon, is responsible for CONN's methods and software development.

The CONN toolbox started in 2008 as part of a collaboration between Alfonso Nieto-Castanon and Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli at the MIT Gabrieli Lab. It has been since funded and developed through a continued collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Gabrieli Lab and Ev Lab at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research), Northeastern University (Whitfield-Gabrieli Lab at the Northeastern Biomedical Imaging Center), and Boston University (Guenther Lab at Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences). The CONN workshop has been organized since 2015 by Robert L. Savoy, who has generously included it among the exceptional neuroimaging courses offered by the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.

Alfonso Nieto-CastanonDirector of the Computational Neuroscience Research lab.Visiting Researcher of the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Boston University.Research Affiliate of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Susan Whitfield-GabrieliProfessor of psychology and Director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at Northeastern University.Researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.Research Affiliate of McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Robert SavoyAssociate Investigator andDirector of Education Programs at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Mass General Research Institute.Instructor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School.

CONN also uses and integrates analysis methods and software developed by the following groups:

SPM, Statistical Parametric Mapping: developed by members & collaborators of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
ART, Artifact detection/identification: developed by members & collaborators of the Gabrieli Lab at MIT
NBS, Network Based Statistics: developed by Andrew Zalesky at the University of Melbourne
FreeSurfer: developed by the Laboratory for Computational Neuroimaging at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.
BCT, Brain Connectivity Toolbox: developed by Olaf Sporns and Mika Rubinov among other members & collaborators of Indiana University.