“Failed Replications: A Reality Check for Neuroscience?”

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In Discover, Neuroskeptic discusses a new study that “attempted to replicate five different papers which, together, reported 17 distinct positive results in the form of structural brain-behavior (‘SBB’) correlations. An SBB correlation is an association between the size (usually) of a particular brain area and a particular behavioral trait.”

“An attempt to replicate the results of some recent neuroscience papers that claimed to find correlations between human brain structure and behavior has drawn a blank,” writes Neuroskeptic.

Failed Replications: A Reality Check for Neuroscience? (Neuroskeptic, Discover, November 19, 2014)

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