Would the field of cognitive neuroscience be advanced by sharing functional MRI data?

BMC Medicine

Debate

Kristina M Visscher¹  Daniel H Weissman² 

[1] Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama, 35294, Birmingham, AL, USA;Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA;

关键词: Functional Connectivity;    Data Sharing;    Cognitive Neuroscience;    fMRI Data;    Online Repository;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1741-7015-9-34

 received in 2010-12-21, accepted in 2011-04-08,  发布年份 2011

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

During the past two decades, the advent of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has fundamentally changed our understanding of brain-behavior relationships. However, the data from any one study add only incrementally to the big picture. This fact raises important questions about the dominant practice of performing studies in isolation. To what extent are the findings from any single study reproducible? Are researchers who lack the resources to conduct a fMRI study being needlessly excluded? Is pre-existing fMRI data being used effectively to train new students in the field? Here, we will argue that greater sharing and synthesis of raw fMRI data among researchers would make the answers to all of these questions more favorable to scientific discovery than they are today and that such sharing is an important next step for advancing the field of cognitive neuroscience.

【 授权许可】

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© Visscher and Weissman; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2011