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The Middle Ground in Multiple Comparisons Correction
I got a note last week from a longtime colleague seeking advice on some reviewer comments of their latest paper. In their remarks the reviewer requested that the authors revert the corrected...
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The Story Behind the Atlantic Salmon
The Atlantic Salmon fMRI poster has garnered a fair amount of attention since its presentation at the Human Brain Mapping conference last June in San Francisco. So far the reaction from other...
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The Internet Found the Atlantic Salmon
The last 72 hours have seen an incredible increase in traffic here at prefrontal.org. To sum it up in a single sentence: the site has received as many hits in the last three days as it has during the...
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The War on Fish: False Positive Horror Stories
Citizens of the Interwebs – we are in need of your assistance! My advisor Mike Miller and I have been asked to write a commentary in a major neuroimaging journal that discusses the importance of...
View ArticleQuote of the Week – Logothetis
“fMRI is a measure of mass action. You almost have to be a professional moron to think you’re saying something profound about the neural mechanisms. You’re nowhere close to explaining what’s happening,...
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PAPER: The Principled Control of False Positives in Neuroimaging
- Current Citation: Bennett CM, Wolford GL, Miller MB. (in press). The Principled Control of False Positives in Neuroimaging. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. - Abstract: An incredible...
View ArticleQuote of the Week – Pashler
“It’s hellishly complicated, this data analysis, and that creates great opportunity for inadvertent mischief.” – Hal Pashler (As seen in Science News)
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PAPER: How reliable are the results from functional magnetic resonance imaging?
- Current Citation: Bennett CM, Miller MB. (in press). How reliable are the results from functional magnetic resonance imaging? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. - Abstract: Functional...
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Spring 2010 Conference Posters
I have been remiss in uploading copies of my spring conference posters. October seems like a fine month to rectify that. Below are links to the research I presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience...
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Riverside Presentation Slides
Just wanted to take a second to thank the kind folks in the Psychology Department at UC Riverside for hosting me this afternoon. I gave a neuroimaging stats talk for their cognitive brown bag series,...
View ArticlePAPER: An Argument For Proper Multiple Comparisons Correction
It has been a long road, but our multiple comparisons paper including the salmon has been published. See below for more details, including the abstract and a link to the download page of the journal....
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The Seven Sins of Neuromarketing
I got quoted in a random neuromarketing article recently. In the flurry of people I have been chatting with about statistics and functional neuroimaging I often neglect to ask what organizations people...
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Significant Differences
One of the first things you learn in an introductory psychology class is the topic of cognitive bias. These are situations or contexts in which human beings cannot reliably make effective judgements or...
View ArticleUnpublished abstract: fMRI Data Center Quality
Not all research findings make their way out of the lab. Sometimes they can get snagged on the way out the door. The reasons for this can range from funding, to politics, and even simple forgetfulness....
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Brain Scanning Anxiety
The best humor always has a touch of reality. The comic is from the site Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal – check it out!
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