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The generalizability crisis by Yarkoni, Tal

“…Most theories and hypotheses in psychology are verbal in nature, yet their evaluation overwhelmingly relies on inferential statistical procedures. The validity…”
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Choosing Prediction Over Explanation in Psychology: Lessons From Machine Learning by Yarkoni, Tal, Westfall, Jacob

“…Psychology has historically been concerned, first and foremost, with explaining the causal mechanisms that give rise to behavior. Randomized, tightly…”
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Personality in 100,000 Words: A large-scale analysis of personality and word use among bloggers by Yarkoni, Tal

“…Previous studies have found systematic associations between personality and individual differences in word use. Such studies have typically focused on broad…”
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Big Correlations in Little Studies: Inflated fMRI Correlations Reflect Low Statistical Power: Commentary on Vul Et al. (2009) by Yarkoni, Tal

“…Vul, Harris, Winkielman, and Pashler (2009, this issue) argue that correlations in many cognitive neuroscience studies are grossly inflated due to a widespread…”
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Statistically Controlling for Confounding Constructs Is Harder than You Think by Westfall, Jacob, Yarkoni, Tal

“…Social scientists often seek to demonstrate that a construct has incremental validity over and above other related constructs. However, these claims are…”
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From Brain Maps to Cognitive Ontologies: Informatics and the Search for Mental Structure by Poldrack, Russell A, Yarkoni, Tal

“…A major goal of cognitive neuroscience is to delineate how brain systems give rise to mental function. Here we review the increasingly large role…”
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The relation between statistical power and inference in fMRI by Cremers, Henk R, Wager, Tor D, Yarkoni, Tal

“…Statistically underpowered studies can result in experimental failure even when all other experimental considerations have been addressed impeccably. In fMRI…”
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How open science helps researchers succeed by McKiernan, Erin C, Bourne, Philip E, Brown, C Titus, Buck, Stuart, Kenall, Amye, Lin, Jennifer, McDougall, Damon, Nosek, Brian A, Ram, Karthik, Soderberg, Courtney K, Spies, Jeffrey R, Thaney, Kaitlin, Updegrove, Andrew, Woo, Kara H, Yarkoni, Tal

“…Open access, open data, open source and other open scholarship practices are growing in popularity and necessity. However, widespread adoption of these…”
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Moving beyond Coltheart’s N: A new measure of orthographic similarity by Yarkoni, Tal, Balota, David, Yap, Melvin

“…Visual word recognition studies commonly measure the orthographic similarity of words using Coltheart’s orthographic neighborhood size metric (ON). Although ON…”
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NeuroQuery, comprehensive meta-analysis of human brain mapping by Dockès, Jérôme, Poldrack, Russell A, Primet, Romain, Gözükan, Hande, Yarkoni, Tal, Suchanek, Fabian, Thirion, Bertrand, Varoquaux, Gaël

“…Reaching a global view of brain organization requires assembling evidence on widely different mental processes and mechanisms. The variety of human…”
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Large-Scale Meta-Analysis of Human Medial Frontal Cortex Reveals Tripartite Functional Organization by de la Vega, Alejandro, Chang, Luke J, Banich, Marie T, Wager, Tor D, Yarkoni, Tal

“…The functional organization of human medial frontal cortex (MFC) is a subject of intense study. Using fMRI, the MFC has been associated with diverse…”
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Integrating explanation and prediction in computational social science by Hofman, Jake M., Watts, Duncan J., Athey, Susan, Garip, Filiz, Griffiths, Thomas L., Kleinberg, Jon, Margetts, Helen, Mullainathan, Sendhil, Salganik, Matthew J., Vazire, Simine, Vespignani, Alessandro, Yarkoni, Tal

“…Computational social science is more than just large repositories of digital data and the computational methods needed to construct and analyse them. It also…”
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Scanning the horizon: towards transparent and reproducible neuroimaging research by Poldrack, Russell A., Baker, Chris I., Durnez, Joke, Gorgolewski, Krzysztof J., Matthews, Paul M., Munafò, Marcus R., Nichols, Thomas E., Poline, Jean-Baptiste, Vul, Edward, Yarkoni, Tal

“…Key Points There is growing concern about the reproducibility of scientific research, and neuroimaging research suffers from many features that are thought to…”
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Large-scale automated synthesis of human functional neuroimaging data by Yarkoni, Tal, Poldrack, Russell A, Nichols, Thomas E, Van Essen, David C, Wager, Tor D

“…A framework and web interface for the large-scale and automated synthesis of human neuroimaging data extracted from the literature is presented. It is used to…”
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Regional specialization within the human striatum for diverse psychological functions by Pauli, Wolfgang M., O’Reilly, Randall C., Yarkoni, Tal, Wager, Tor D.

“…Decades of animal and human neuroimaging research have identified distinct, but overlapping, striatal zones, which are interconnected with separable…”
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Bambi : A Simple Interface for Fitting Bayesian Linear Models in Python by Capretto, Tomás, Piho, Camen, Kumar, Ravin, Westfall, Jacob, Yarkoni, Tal, Martin, Osvaldo A.

“…The popularity of Bayesian statistical methods has increased dramatically in recent years across many research areas and industrial applications. This is the…”
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BIDS apps: Improving ease of use, accessibility, and reproducibility of neuroimaging data analysis methods by Gorgolewski, Krzysztof J, Alfaro-Almagro, Fidel, Auer, Tibor, Bellec, Pierre, Capotă, Mihai, Chakravarty, M Mallar, Churchill, Nathan W, Cohen, Alexander Li, Craddock, R Cameron, Devenyi, Gabriel A, Eklund, Anders, Esteban, Oscar, Flandin, Guillaume, Ghosh, Satrajit S, Guntupalli, J Swaroop, Jenkinson, Mark, Keshavan, Anisha, Kiar, Gregory, Liem, Franziskus, Raamana, Pradeep Reddy, Raffelt, David, Steele, Christopher J, Quirion, Pierre-Olivier, Smith, Robert E, Strother, Stephen C, Varoquaux, Gaël, Wang, Yida, Yarkoni, Tal, Poldrack, Russell A

“…The rate of progress in human neurosciences is limited by the inability to easily apply a wide range of analysis methods to the plethora of different datasets…”
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Pain in the ACC? by Wager, Tor D., Atlas, Lauren Y., Botvinick, Matthew M., Chang, Luke J., Coghill, Robert C., Davis, Karen Deborah, Iannetti, Gian Domenico, Poldrack, Russell A., Shackman, Alexander J., Yarkoni, Tal

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Progress toward openness, transparency, and reproducibility in cognitive neuroscience by Gilmore, Rick O., Diaz, Michele T., Wyble, Brad A., Yarkoni, Tal

“…Accumulating evidence suggests that many findings in psychological science and cognitive neuroscience may prove difficult to reproduce; statistical power in…”
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Decoding brain activity using a large-scale probabilistic functional-anatomical atlas of human cognition by Rubin, Timothy N, Koyejo, Oluwasanmi, Gorgolewski, Krzysztof J, Jones, Michael N, Poldrack, Russell A, Yarkoni, Tal

“…A central goal of cognitive neuroscience is to decode human brain activity-that is, to infer mental processes from observed patterns of whole-brain activation…”
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