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Responses to Vul et al.’s article on fMRI abuse, which proved as much of a “bombshell” as first predicted, are now too numerous to list. Needless to say, several of the authors of studies Vul criticized quickly responded with a defense [pdf] of their work, to which Vul in turn replied with a rebuttal of [...]
Vaughan Bell of Mind Hacks links to a forthcoming Perspectives on Psychological Science article by Edward Vul et al. that is sure to prove a “bombshell” for the field of cognitive neuroscience. Vul’s analysis demonstrates, in rigorous detail, how the too-good-to-be-true results of (mostly) headline studies are produced by complex statistical errors and biases.
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Studies of the effects of class on the brain tend to invoke culture and environment as the predominant cause for distinctions. For example, a recent study of the respective effects of wealth and poverty on children’s brains found that “normal nine and 10-year-olds from rich and poor backgrounds had differing electrical activity in a part [...]
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