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  • fMRI bugs could upend years of research

    A whole pile of “this is how your brain looks like” fMRI-based science has been potentially invalidated because someone finally got around to checking the data. The problem is simple: to get from a high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging scan of the brain to a scientific conclusion, the brain is divided into tiny “voxels”. Software, rather than humans, then scans the voxels looking for clusters

    fMRI bugs could upend years of research
    shinichiroinaba
    shinichiroinaba 2016/07/07
    “a bug that's been sitting in a package called 3dClustSim for 15 years, fixed in May 2015, produced bad results ”なるほどギガジンあかん
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