DEC Colloquium

What's wrong with neuroimaging, and how can we make it right?

Practical information
08 October 2019
3pm-4:30pm
Place

ENS, Jaurès, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris

LNC2

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.

 

Russ Poldrack