Fixing the stimulus-as-fixed-effect fallacy in task fMRI [version 2; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Most functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments record the brain’s responses to samples of stimulus materials (e.g., faces or words). Yet the statistical modeling approaches used in fMRI research universally fail to model stimulus variability in a manner that affords population general...

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Main Authors: Jacob Westfall, Thomas E. Nichols, Tal Yarkoni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wellcome 2017-03-01
Series:Wellcome Open Research
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Online Access:https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/1-23/v2