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Comment by ortusdux

I'm glad that this is the approach that they are taking. There have been plenty of issues with fMRI false positives due to misconfigured software.

The most famous would probably be the IG Nobel winning study that detected brain activity in a store-bought salmon:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobe...

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/fmri-gets-slap-in-the-...

Later studies called into question the results of between 10% and 40% of historic fMRI studies:

https://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/nichols/entry/bibliometrics_of_c...

https://www.pnas.org/content/113/28/7900

parent ortusdux 4 years ago

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