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| Wow. fMRI science is full of intrigue. Last year Edward Vul, et. al opened up a bag of worms when they published a paper called "Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition." It was originally titled "Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience," which is more in keeping with the tone of the paper. They had noticed that a whole rash of fMRI studies on emotion, personality, and social cognition — all hot topics that tend to get lots of attention in the popular press — had both astoundingly high numbers and slight methodology sections. So they undertook to try and figure out how those numbers were being arrived at. Their claim is that many of the studies used a kind of circular inference that was skewing the data. Ed Vul's website is great. He's posted the original paper, plus a whole pile of critical response and follow-up research here. |
| Links for the participants in the Art & Science Exhibition: Libby Hague Doug Jarvis Gareth Lichty Abigale Miller Elissa Ross & Patrick Ingram Allison Rowe Also, click here for documentation of all the projects from the Art & Science Fair we held in May featuring Abigale Miller, Alexander Moyle, Allison Rowe, Ariana Andrei and Reagan Brown, Arthur Konok, Brian White, Bridget Moser, Chris Bennett, Doug Jarvis, Elissa Ross and Patrick Ingram, Emily Comeau, Emily Cook, Erika James, Erika Lincoln, Gareth Lichty, Gene Mastrangeli, Heather Carey, Students and teacher of The Student School, Iris Hea-Won Cho, Jesse Robertson, Ken Leung, Laura Paolini, Lauren Hall and Ed Barsalou, Libby Hague, Linda Fitz, Lisa Smolkin, Mari Tsylke, Martin Reis, Michael Enzbrunner and Allison McCall, Miki Rubin, Niki D’Amore and Emilie Dionne, Patrick Beh, Reynaldo Padua, Ryan Thorne, Sarah Peebles, Susan Bustos, Tagny Duff, and Willy Le Maitre. |