Credits & Thanks
The competition required a hundreds of hours of careful dedicated work my many professionals. Below is list of the major contributors and their contribution. Special thanks to the staff at the University of Pittsburgh for support covering the awards. Thanks to Psychology Software Tools Inc (www.pstnet.com) for providing the VR world software and many special features to enable the computation coding. We also want to thank the Princeton MVPA group for providing the Matlab software (see http://www.csbmb.princeton.edu/mvpa/).
University of Pittsburgh Staff
Kate Fissell - Computational coding of virtual world eye movements, feature coding, fMRI data analysis
Lena Gemmer - Eye movement coding and programming, VR world testing, video rating software
Kevin Jarbo - Subject running, VR world testing and data processing and analysis
Dan Jones - Web support, server support, competition registration
Lori Koerbel - Web and administrative support
Kyung Hwa Lee - Behavioral and fMRI running
Adrienne McGrail - VR world testing
Maureen McHugo - Project technical lead, design, testing, data management
Sudhir Pathak - Matlab analysis routines
David Pfendt - Coding of eye movement virtual object detection programs
Melissa Thomas - Design and testing of VR task, behavioral and fMRI data collection, analysis & documentation
University of Pennsylvania Staff
Rob Goldberg - Advisor on semantic representation experimental design
Psychology Software Tools, Inc. Staff
Kyle Brauch - Development of most of the models, objects and characters in the virtual world
Tom Yothers - Development of virtual world software VR 2
Scientific Advisory Board
Chairs: Walter Schneider, Greg Siegle (University of Pittsburgh)
Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University)
Emanuele Olivetti (ITC-IRST; Italy)
Elia Formisano, Rainer Goebel (Maastricht University)
Andreas Bartels (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics)
Uri Hasson (New York University & Weizmann Institute)
Greg Stephens, James Haxby (Princeton University)
Alexis Battle (Stanford University)
Tom Nichols (University of Michigan)
