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That was our paper! We showed that you can get false positives (significant brain activity in this case) if fMRI if you don't use the proper statistical corrections. We did win an Ig Nobel for that work in 2012 - it was a ton of fun.


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danglast Tuesday at 9:53 PM

This is one for https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights!

(I mention this so more people can know the list exists, and hopefully email us more nominations when they see an unusually great and interesting comment.)

p.s. more on the salmon paper in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291600

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288560

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288557

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