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Salmon story is more than a decade old at this point, and still as relevant as before; became an instant classic in my neuroscience-related MS programme. This W

• SubiculumCode 6y ago
  How is it relevant now? Please expand. Sure its relevant in the sense that fmri requires multiple tests, and that has to be accounted for correctly, but we do so now...with greater and greater accuracy as newer and newer techniques take hold, mind you, for a statistical problem that is very difficult to model. The salmon experiment showed that the thresholds scientists used at the BEGINNING of neuroimaging science were insufficient...this is a new field, methods take time to develop.The salmon experiment is not relevant now because we are not making the same mistakes we made then, over a decade ago.
  • 9214 6y ago
    My comment about relevancy was more in line with @jdoliner's in the neighboring thread. I totally agree that tools and practices weren't quite there at the time and that things are different now. The takeaway from Salmon experiment IMO is not specific to fMRI: you cannot trust a single technique or field "golden" standard (whether flawed or not), and should rather pursue accuracy across different pre- post-processing methods. That's not realistically doable single-handily (at least in my experience), but in the current age it should become the norm to rely on publically available pipelines, probably with some sort of configuration files or even GUIs. I personally worked with fMRI only sparingly, so cannot comment on that in the context of the posted article.