Potential Reporting Bias in fMRI Studies of the Brain

Sean P. David; Jennifer J. Ware; Isabella Chu; Pooja Loftus; Paolo Fusar‐Poli; Joaquim Raduà; Marcus R. Munafò; John P A Ioannidis

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0070104

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These results are consistent with possible reporting biases affecting small fMRI studies and suggest the need to promote standardized large-scale evidence in this field. It may also be that small studies may be analyzed and reported in ways that may generate a larger number of claimed foci or that small fMRI studies with inconclusive, null, or not very promising results may not be published at all.

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