dc.contributor.author | Fedorenko, Evelina | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-03T15:21:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-12-09T19:34:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-03T15:21:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-03 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2352-1546 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138409.2 | |
dc.description.abstract | In the last three decades, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has transformed the field of cognitive neuroscience. A standard analytic approach entails aligning a set of individual activation maps in a common brain space, performing a statistical test in each voxel, and interpreting significant activation clusters with respect to macroanatomic landmarks. In the last several years, however, this group-analytic approach is being increasingly replaced by analyses where neural responses are examined within each brain individually. In this opinion piece, I trace the origins of individual-subject analyses in human neuroscience and speculate on why group analyses had risen vastly in popularity during the 2000s. I then discuss a core problem with group analyses — their limited utility in informing the human cognitive architecture — and talk about how the individual-subject functional localization approach solves this problem. Finally, I discuss other reasons for why researchers have been turning to individual-subject analyses, and argue that such approaches are likely to be the future of human neuroscience. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier BV | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/J.COBEHA.2021.02.023 | en_US |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.source | Prof. Fedorenko | en_US |
dc.title | The early origins and the growing popularity of the individual-subject analytic approach in human neuroscience | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Fedorenko, Evelina. 2021. "The early origins and the growing popularity of the individual-subject analytic approach in human neuroscience." Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 40. | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences | |
dc.contributor.department | McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT | |
dc.relation.journal | Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Author's final manuscript | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
dc.date.updated | 2021-12-09T19:30:13Z | |
dspace.orderedauthors | Fedorenko, E | en_US |
dspace.date.submission | 2021-12-09T19:30:14Z | |
mit.journal.volume | 40 | en_US |
mit.license | PUBLISHER_CC | |
mit.metadata.status | Authority Work Needed | en_US |