"Think of the brain as a jam-packed sports arena and the voxels as all the fans"
— Murphy, Kate
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Date
August 27, 2016
Metaphor
"Think of the brain as a jam-packed sports arena and the voxels as all the fans"
Metaphor in Context
Think of the brain as a jam-packed sports arena and the voxels as all the fans. If you ask everyone in the stadium a bunch of questions, you might, by chance, see a pattern emerge, such as a cluster of people standing in line for the bathroom who love pistachio ice cream and skipped a grade in school. You need to statistically account for the possibility of coincidence before drawing any conclusions about ice cream, intellect and bladder control, just as you would for areas in the brain that light up or don't light up in response to stimuli.
The authors of the paper on the software glitch found that a vast majority of published papers in the field do not make this "multiple comparison" correction. But when they do, they said, the most widely used fM.R.I. data analysis software often doesn't do it adequately.
The authors of the paper on the software glitch found that a vast majority of published papers in the field do not make this "multiple comparison" correction. But when they do, they said, the most widely used fM.R.I. data analysis software often doesn't do it adequately.
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Reading
Citation
Kate Murphy, "Do You Believe in God, or Is That a Software Glitch?" New York Times (August 27, 2016). <Link to NYTimes.com>
Date of Entry
08/29/2016
