<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="text-align:right"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:24.5333px">Dear all,</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="text-align:right"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:24.5333px"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="text-align:right"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:24.5333px">we would like to alert you to this relevant podcast episode of Inside Brains which covers the implications of the 2016 PNAS paper by Eklund et al., "Cluster failure: Why fMRI inferences for spatial extent have inflated false-positive rates" !</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px">Enjoy and have a nice weekend!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px">The SPM-Workshop Team</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></p><div style="font-size:12.8px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="text-align:right"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:24.5333px"><font size="4"><img src="cid:ii_15b9086929736818" alt="Inline-Bild 2" width="90" height="90" class="gmail-m_-472253012081014358gmail-m_7075192667993373227gmail-m_4782670660237558184gmail-CToWUd gmail-m_-472253012081014358gmail-m_7075192667993373227gmail-CToWUd gmail-m_-472253012081014358gmail-CToWUd gmail-CToWUd"> </font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="text-align:right"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:16pt;line-height:24.5333px;color:rgb(255,192,0)"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="text-align:right"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:16pt;line-height:24.5333px;color:rgb(255,192,0)">"Like seeing faces in the clouds?"</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><br></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> has been around for 25 years. </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Last year, in 2016, a scientific article stated that <b><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">perhaps 40,000 published neuroimaging works are flawed</span></b>. </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">This article, published in the prestigious journal PNAS, has brought the authors and this topic abruptly into the focus. </span></font><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="font-size:12pt">Most media coverage drastically truncated their core message, stating only that fMRI produced incorrect results and that one analysis software contained a bug. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="font-size:12pt"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style="font-size:12pt">Scientific colleagues vehemently criticized the far-reaching statements of the three authors which led them to attenuate their claims. </font><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>But what is actually true? </b>How many studies are affected? Do we have to deal with the bankruptcy of a whole scientific branch?</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><b style="font-size:12pt"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><b style="font-size:12pt"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></p><table class="gmail-m_-472253012081014358gmail-m_7075192667993373227gmail-m_4782670660237558184gmail-m_-3334143868379565685gmail-MsoTableGrid" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-size:12.8px;border-collapse:collapse;border:none"><tbody><tr style="height:232.25pt"><td width="262" valign="top" style="width:196.8pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;height:232.25pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:14.72px"><div style="text-align:right"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large"><img src="cid:ii_15b9088aa19e0ee4" alt="Inline-Bild 3" width="217" height="103" class="gmail-m_-472253012081014358gmail-m_7075192667993373227gmail-m_4782670660237558184gmail-CToWUd gmail-m_-472253012081014358gmail-m_7075192667993373227gmail-m_4782670660237558184gmail-a6T gmail-m_-472253012081014358gmail-m_7075192667993373227gmail-CToWUd gmail-m_-472253012081014358gmail-m_7075192667993373227gmail-a6T gmail-m_-472253012081014358gmail-CToWUd gmail-m_-472253012081014358gmail-a6T gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align:right"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large"><br></span></font></div><div style="text-align:right"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align:start;font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">In <a href="https://www.inside-brains.com/en/like-seeing-faces-in-the-clouds-false-positive-results-in-functional-neuroimaging/" target="_blank"><font color="#f1c232"><b>this podcast episode</b></font></a></span></div><div style="text-align:right"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align:start;font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"><b>four neuroscientists</b> - including one of the co-authors of the PNAS study - <b>share their perscpectives on the allegations</b> that most fMRI studies are flawed</span></div></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:14.72px"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:14.72px"><br></p></td><td width="19" valign="top" style="width:14.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;height:232.25pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p></td><td width="333" style="width:249.65pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt;height:232.25pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:14.72px"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:3pt;line-height:4.6px"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">John-Dylan Haynes</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> - Professor at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin and director of the Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:14.72px"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Rainer Goebel</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> - Professor of Cognitive Neurosciences at the University of Maastricht and developer of BrainVoyager</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:14.72px"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Tom Nichols</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> - Professor at the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick and Senior Research Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10pt;line-height:14.72px"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Dina Wittfoth</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> – Heads the fMRI research group at Hannover Medical School’s Institute of Neuroradiology, and offers workshops for data analysis in neuroimaging**</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US">You can listen to more</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><a href="https://www.inside-brains.com/en/" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(255,192,0)">Inside Brains</span></b></a><span lang="EN-US"> on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud o</span>r directly via <span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.inside-brains.com/en/like-seeing-faces-in-the-clouds-false-positive-results-in-functional-neuroimaging/" target="_blank">www.inside-brains.com</a> .</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.3333px">**a<span style="color:black">s an affiliate of the </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.3333px"><a href="https://www.inside-brains.com/de/category/workshops/" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Inside Brains Academy</span></i></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.3333px;color:black"> we are happy to offer you a <b>20% discount</b> on the upcoming </span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.3333px"><a href="http://spmworkshop-hannover.de/index.php/spm-starter" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">SPM Starter Workshop</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.3333px;color:black"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.3333px;color:black">(May 24-26) and </span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.3333px"><a href="http://spmworkshop-hannover.de/index.php/brainstem-fmri" target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Brainstem fMRI Workshop</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.3333px;color:black"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;line-height:15.3333px;color:black">(May 28) in Hannover/Germany. 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