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METHODS ARTICLE

NEUROINFORMATICS published: 06 January 2015

doi: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00088

The Decoding Toolbox (TDT): a versatile software package

for multivariate analyses of functional imaging data

Martin N. Hebart 1,2,3,4 *†, Kai Görgen 2,3,5 *† and John-Dylan Haynes2,3,4

1 Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

2 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany

3 Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany

4 Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

5 Fachgebiet Neurotechnologie, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Edited by: The multivariate analysis of brain signals has recently sparked a great amount of interest,

Arjen Van Ooyen, VU University yet accessible and versatile tools to carry out decoding analyses are scarce. Here we

Amsterdam, Netherlands

introduce The Decoding Toolbox (TDT) which represents a user-friendly, powerful and

Reviewed by: flexible package for multivariate analysis of functional brain imaging data. TDT is written

Julien Dubois, California Institute of

Technology, USA in Matlab and equipped with an interface to the widely used brain data analysis package

Qiyong Gong, West China Hospital SPM. The toolbox allows running fast whole-brain analyses, region-of-interest analyses

of Sichuan University, China