[Neuroinfo] Podcast Episode on false-positive results in fMRI

[SPM-Workshop Hannover]

Dear all,


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" !


Enjoy and have a nice weekend!

The SPM-Workshop Team




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"Like seeing faces in the clouds?"



*Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging* has been around for 25 years.

Last year, in 2016, a scientific article stated that *perhaps 40,000
published neuroimaging works are flawed*.


This article, published in the prestigious journal PNAS, has brought the
authors and this topic abruptly into the focus. Most media coverage
drastically truncated their core message, stating only that fMRI produced
incorrect results and that one analysis software contained a bug.


Scientific colleagues vehemently criticized the far-reaching statements of
the three authors which led them to attenuate their claims. *But what is
actually true? *How many studies are affected? Do we have to deal with the
bankruptcy of a whole scientific branch?




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In *this podcast episode*
<https://www.inside-brains.com/en/like-seeing-faces-in-the-clouds-false-positive-results-in-functional-neuroimaging/>
*four neuroscientists* - including one of the co-authors of the PNAS study
- *share their perscpectives on the allegations* that most fMRI studies are
flawed





 *John-Dylan Haynes* - Professor at the Bernstein Center for Computational
Neuroscience in Berlin and director of the Berlin Center for Advanced
Neuroimaging

*Rainer Goebel* - Professor of Cognitive Neurosciences at the University of
Maastricht and developer of BrainVoyager

*Tom Nichols* - Professor at the Department of Statistics at the University
of Warwick and Senior Research Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute

*Dina Wittfoth* – Heads the fMRI research group at Hannover Medical
School’s Institute of Neuroradiology, and offers workshops for data
analysis in neuroimaging**



You can listen to more *Inside Brains* <https://www.inside-brains.com/en/> on
iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud or directly via www.inside-brains.com
<https://www.inside-brains.com/en/like-seeing-faces-in-the-clouds-false-positive-results-in-functional-neuroimaging/>
 .



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<https://www.inside-brains.com/de/category/workshops/> we are happy to
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