Prof. Russell Poldrack | What's wrong with neuroimaging research, and how can we make it right?
Gastvortrag
- Datum: 20.08.2020
- Uhrzeit: 18:00 - 19:30
- Vortragende(r): Prof. Russell Poldrack
- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, California, USA
- Ort: MPI für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
- Raum: Zoom Meeting
- Gastgeber: Department of Psychology
- Kontakt: psy-office@cbs.mpg.de
Functional neuroimaging has given rise to tens of thousands of publications, but we remain far from a comprehensive understanding the neural basis of mental functions. I will argue that this arises from two fundamental flaws in the way that neuroimaging research has been done. First, I will argue that we have been asking the wrong questions, such that our research strategy has no way of uncovering selective relations between brain systems and mental functions. Second, I will argue that we have been asking these questions in the wrong way, using methods that do not provide reproducible results. I will outline a set of conceptual and analytic strategies that I hope can help address these problems. Poster