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Current research efforts are focused on the physiological basis of the BOLD fMRI signal, the use of resampling techniques for analyzing neuroimaging data, the evaluation of software tools for the brain imaging community, and the creation of a surface cartography of the brain. Dr. Seong-Gi Kim and his colleagues at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research are studying the relationship between neural activity and the hemodynamic response as a function of stimulus duration. Dr. Stephen Strother and his colleagues at the Danish Technical Institute are implementing a software environment with a flexible Java-based interface that includes a statistical resampling framework and links to heterogeneous software tools for fMRI data processing written in IDL, MATLAB and C. Dr. David Rottenberg and his colleagues at the University of Minnesota and Florida State University are testing the hypothesis that 2D surface-based representations of spatial activation patterns have greater predictive power than their corresponding 3D volumetric representations by comparing 2D and 3D patterns of cerebral and cerebellar activation in multi-subject fMRI data sets using overlap, probabilistic, and distance metrics.